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Rosy’s t-shirt wedding dress (Oh happy day!)

April 24, 2011

Wedding dress by Juno Lamb, with block prints by Kit Brown, from a pattern by our pal Megan Nicolay in her fun and fabulous book Generation T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-Shirt, and advice and workshop space from Chris Clyne. I made a variety of tops; Megan is wearing the one intended to go [...]

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Gluten-free almond torte

February 6, 2011

The reason there’s no picture of the whole cake is it was too good; it got scarfed up almost before I even remembered to take a photo, with piles of whipped cream on the side. The recipe is here, but I simplified it by using almond meal (a.k.a. almond flour) instead of grinding up the [...]

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Happy kids

January 25, 2011

It doesn’t take much, just a few sprinkles on the birthday cupcakes.

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Recovery Soup

December 28, 2010

Leftover turkey or chicken carcasses, flu or just a bad cold, suffering from holiday excess and needing to rest the old digestive system—whatever your trouble, this soup is the solution. We seem to live on the stuff these days.
Our version, influenced by Martha’s Indonesian-style chicken soup and Popsy’s variations on Martha’s soup, and tweaked over [...]

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Ice cream for the holidays?

December 12, 2010

I made two kinds of ice cream for Thanksgiving, straight-up cranberry and an ice cream flavored with uncooked cranberry orange relish (recipe in the Joy of Cooking). While the latter was interesting, and fairly yummy, the plain cranberry ice cream was the real keeper, tart and creamy and such a pretty color. It’s going to [...]

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Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins; story by Eric A. Kimmel, pictures by Trina Schart Hyman (1989)

December 3, 2010

On the third night of Hannukah I propose my favorite Hannukah tale, Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins. When Hershel of Ostropol’s steps lead him, on the first night of Hannukah, to a small snowy village, he is sure he will be greeted by crisp latkes and the gleam of candles burning in menorahs in a [...]

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Apple cake, apple cake, Mama wants an apple cake

November 24, 2010

Cooking seasonally means apple cake in the fall when I have drops from my cousin’s tree, a big box of Spencers from a neighbor, Cortlands and Macouns from other nearby orchards. Here’s a round up of the cakes I’ve tried, searching for the apple cake that makes you feel like a happy child just blown [...]

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Mejillones a la vinagreta

November 8, 2010

Because we had shellfish-eating Spanish-speaking family coming last week, I made these—and also because I had everything for the salpicón still, the last cherry tomatoes and parsley from our garden, the peppers and red onions from a nearby farmstand. The last of summer sun in vegetable form. The recipe, from the mouthwatering Moro: The Cookbook, [...]

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The kids love me today

October 27, 2010

…because I made them popcorn balls—“old-fashioned” popcorn balls. Don’t let the name fool you—this is junk food through and through, and mighty hard on the old fillings. But fun to make. At first I thought the vinegar and baking soda were part of the old-timey flavor, though the ingredients for “volcano” did cross my mind. [...]

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Kale saag—eat your greens, baby

October 26, 2010

An Indian supper (not to be confused with Indian summer) with my cousins this past weekend, and I wondered what I could make with the foods so abundant this time of year: apples, squash, kale, the last of the cherry tomatoes. I read many recipes for saag, the creamy spicy green mush served in Indian [...]

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