Back when I was twenty-one and living in my first post-college apartment over in the East Village, I had 3 lovely roommates. Two of whom were burgeoning foodies. On a cold evening in late March, one roommate brought home a big bunch of leeks and a bag of russet potatoes. She knocked on my door […]
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We’ve been looking forward to this day for months (okay, years) now, so we made a very special snack in honor of our new president. We used this recipe from our friends Alison, Dan, and Meredith over at Alison’s Lunch, changed the recipe a tiny bit to use up what we had on hand, and […]
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It was Raggedy Ann’s birthday. Again. It seems that she turned twenty today and wanted muffins and hot chocolate. Hmmmmmmm….. Since it was so cold and since we are cold wimps-though to be fair, living right over here near the Hudson River IS about ten degrees colder than elsewhere in the city-we decided to work […]
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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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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…