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pear and cheese

I'm not cooking today.I've been thinking about damp gingerbread with pears all week, thinking that that would be the dish I brought to fall fest. I made it last year just about this time, but some things just bear talking about twice, don't you think?All week, I keep coming across the most ...

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today

One of these days, when I'm complaining (me? I never complain!) about a hard day, will you remind me about today?Today I did laundry. I wrote, I cooked, I did some dinner party planning. Yes, that was good, but I haven't even gotten started yet.Eilen is up for a visit. We went out for hot ...

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nikki mcclure

I'm like a baked potato chip today- a little fragile and a little crispy.I'm throwing a bunch of things in a pot for a soup to soothe Joey's throat, and I have no idea how it will taste, so I sure as hell am not going to try to pass that off as a recipe today, just so I have something to write ...

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lupini

Usually I go food shopping alone. Shopping with the family is fun, but we end up getting into accidents with the car cart while spending three hundred dollars on fancy cereal and sausage. And Rosie has a bit of a shoplifting problem. So I go alone, even if it means I have to go late at night.The ...

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leaves

No food today. Just leaves. (You're still busy with those quinces anyway, right?)Sometimes New England is sowell, New England. Just the sound of crunching leaves makes me feelhome. ...

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cream

In her book, Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen, Laurie Colwin devotes an entire essay to the wonders of British cream.How did I not read this woman's writing before? When my friend Janet shoved the book into my hands, I was hungry, I ate it up, and it hit the spot like a good baked mac and ...

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apple picking

Of all the fruitsthat grow,I think thatapples are my favoritefruit to pick. ...

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free thursday luxuries

So you're driving your friends to the train. It's cold and sunny and you have a day of picking up and dropping off and picking up again ahead of you. Perhaps someone little in your house had a bad dream, and as a consequence you might not have gotten so much sleep, and you drop your friends off in ...

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Lovely Places

I've been thinking about lovely moments in lovely places lately. Moments where I'm not sure if I'm escaping or if the place helps me actually be there, right then.I'm still really working on this one, recognizing how much I enjoy the loveliness. I'm not sure, but I think it's a good thing. ...

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laugh now

I know this is not usually the way I work things around here, but I just saw maybe one of the funniest things ever. My friend Meg sent it to me days ago, and I didn't really look until now, but I'm not sure if I've ever found food so funny. Make sure that you take the full guided tour of every ...

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