Food for Thought: 5 Ways Hurried Moms Can Make Math Easy
Laura Laing is a writer friend whose new book, Math for Grownups: Re-Learn the Arithmetic You Forgot from School, is perfect for people like me, who sorta remember how to figure out percentages by hand but never actually trust that the final number is correct… Who know that there are 16 tablespoons in a cup, ...Keep Reading
Maple-Cinnamon Butter (for the best biscuits I ever made)
I have lost my writing mojo. It may have something to do with the insomnia that’s been raging for the last week or two—most nights I wake up sometime between 3 and 4, and don’t fall back asleep until dawn. At the moment I half-wish I were Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange; that third ...Keep Reading
It’s Real. It’s Really Really Real.
Yesterday I went into Manhattan (a rare occurrence these days) to return the copyedited manuscript of Parents Need to Eat Too: Naptime Cooking, One-Handed Meals & Time-Saving Kitchen Tricks for New Parents to Amy, my editor. The next time I see it, the pages will be laid out like, y’know, an actual book, which is ...Keep Reading
Summery Swiss Chard, Corn, Peach, and Quinoa Salad
I’ll make this brief, since I’m due to return the copyedited manuscript for Parents Need to Eat Too* to my editor, um, last week. All 651 pages of it. There is so.much packed into this cookbook! It overflows with recipes, ideas, kitchen hacks, and information—from other moms, from nutrition and lactation experts, and from, well, ...Keep Reading
Local Roots CSA Is Hosting a Supper Club
My CSA, the one I’ve raved about before, is hosting a little dinner party-cum-supper club using ingredients from the various farms and vendors who supply the group. The menu’s above; I can’t decide which sounds more exciting, that fresh fettucine with basil & chive pesto, or the red wine braised short ribs. But we all ...Keep Reading
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