I haven’t been cooking. Well, I’ve been boiling pasta a lot, if you count that. It’s been rice pasta because Sadie’s all off wheat again. Rice pasta is good, but just a little bit less good than wheat pasta. I’ve been making dinner in a few minutes because that’s how the days have…
quince rosemary polenta bread
There is a candle dynasty around here, and its main headquarters is about an hour away in the Pioneer Valley. The sign, outstandingly visible from the highway, claims the location as “the scenter of the universe.” I drove by the place on my way to a wedding this past summer; it was a gorgeous summer…
maple oatmeal steamed pudding
Sadie woke me up last weekend by gently hitting me over the head with Marion Cunningham’s Breakfast Book, which incidentally is one of those books that makes me happy just to hold it in my hands.“What are we making for breakfast?”I grumbled something about how she should figure it out and I would join her…
wild rice and leek soup
Lately, dinnertime has been a little, well I don’t know- let’s see how I could frame it. It’s all in the way you look at at, right? Lately, dinner time has been a little…loud…..tear-filled……almost humorous (and I say almost!) in the regularity of the crying……challenging……..did I say loud? I haven’t quite figured it out, except…
rice cooker tapioca
I know just a little bit about marriage. Just a little bit. I’ve got a whole lot more education ahead of me. My mom was married to my dad for a few short years. It doesn’t sound like it was the best of relationships. By the time I was three, we were living with other…
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