Over the weekend here there were threats of a big snowstorm that would snuggle the City under a few inches of snow. For a girl who grew up in the South, in a place where snow happened about three or four times in eighteen years, an actual biggish storm still seems so glamorous and romantic. […]
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Ahhh, January. Yesterday, with constant rain just above the freezing point, two kids who are still clocking West Coast time, and no babysitter now that our part time sitter has found full-time work, it was the perfect day to put on the dhal. For the first year and a half of her life, my […]
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Happy New Year, Yummies! Since I’ve been my mom’s sous-chef for the past few weeks and had little time to do anything but follow the Boss-Lady’s orders around the kitchen, it seems fitting to share a wonderful recipe that she has passed on to me. Actually, this recipe had a circuitous way of getting […]
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Now that making mixed tapes is a lost art, I’m left to find other crafts, like recipe writing. My old friend Megan wrote me last week inquiring how she’d go about making a sweet potato cake that she used to order all the time at a restaurant in Greenville, South Carolina, The Brick Street Cafe. […]
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When it comes to preschoolers-or come to think of it, people in general-it seems like you can never have enough muffins around. In our home, we make muffins weekly, using up leftovers and packing whole grains, seeds, and nuts into little packages that our children gobble down. Most of the time, if it’s in a […]
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I'm a New York City mum of three children—Mira, 8, Liev, 6, and our littlest Yummy, Genevieve, 2. I teach mommies, preschool kids, and grade school age children (or "Yummies" as I like to call them) how to make delicious things. Read more…