cooking with kids: crab cakes

One highlight of our trip to Minnesota for Thanksgiving was getting to spend time with our Adorable Baby Niece. She just turned 3 years old a few weeks ago and we hadn’t seen her in over a year. “Adorable Toddler Niece” doesn’t have the same ring to it, though, so I’m sticking with the original. […]

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csa share 12/02/10

Wow, NaBloPoMo is hard. This might be the last year I participate — it’s so much for you to read! I got behind on reading all the blogs I enjoy so that I could post to mine. A good exercise, but three years in a row might be enough. One last quick reminder to sign […]

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the kitchen reader: heat

The November selection for the Kitchen Reader was Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford, and I chose it. Buford is a staff writer for The New Yorker who set off on a journey to learn to cook. Buford describes himself […]

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road trip recap: california's central coast

Our day in Sonoma was lovely and definitely repeatable. From there we actually went to San Jose to stay with my aunt while her daughter (my cousin) was also visiting. We were too busy cooking a huge meal and having fun for me to stop and take pictures. The next morning we drove my cousin […]

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holiday weekend

Are you enjoying the holiday weekend? We are having a great (but cold) trip home. Lots of time spent with family and friends, a few stops at our favorite restaurants (corn pancakes, this means you), and some good relaxation. We head back to California tomorrow and have some more quality time to spend with people […]

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saturday saturation

Where did today go? We spent the morning at an awesome local bookstore with our niece and her parents, then adventured with my family all day. Drinks and late night nachos wrapped up the evening and suddenly we’re out of time. I took plenty of photos that aren’t uploaded yet, cooked some lovely food that […]

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road trip recap: sonoma

After spending two wonderful days in Eureka, California, we headed back down to wine country. In Sonoma we did several wine tastings (and brought a few bottles home), an olive oil and vinegar tasting (sounds weird, tastes amazing), and a chocolate tasting (yum). The day felt decadent in some ways, educational in others, and we […]

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happy thanksgiving!

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We did. My mother-in-law made us a wonderful breakfast to start the day. In the afternoon we all packed up and headed to my aunt and uncle’s house to enjoy a plethora of food and good company. My parents and my in-laws live about 25 miles apart, […]

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road trip recap: redwood forest

First, a message from Woody Guthrie: This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York Island From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me. Have you ever been to Redwood National Park? If not, you should. It’s 775 miles […]

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a pumpkin retrospective

I’m in a minor frenzy right now trying to work from home on a big project, pack, and leave for the airport in an hour to go home for a week over the holidays. That sound you hear right now? That’s my head exploding. Since I squandered all my “free” time uploading photos for posting […]

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