My dad grew edamame before it was cool. We called it by another name back then. In the garden he claimed from a Minnesota meadow, he planted rows of soybeans, poor man’s food he remembered from his boyhood. When the plants died in the late summer, he uprooted them by the dozen and laid them […]
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For ten minutes she looked through her closet, dithering. She was not a ditherer by nature, so this was a matter of unusual difficulty. What to wear? She could wear the pretty paisley dress, but she’d worn it to the last social event, and probably to the one before that. She could wear the blue,
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Confession: One good thing about having kids underfoot is that I can’t sit around eating all the time, like I wanted to those first weeks of pregnancy. This is a good thing. But there is one snack I can always find time for, a perfect little creation of my friend Shaunda (whom I mention too often
UPDATE: As of December 6, 2014, this giveaway is closed. ***** Dear people, I’m happy to announce there’s a new cookbook on the market around here! – Simple Servings: recipes celebrating the place of food, faith & laughter at Faith Builders. Beatrice King has gathered an incredible collection of great eats. She’s been head cook at
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Put a dab of peanut butter and a squirt of honey into a Ziploc bag. Squeeze to mix. Snip one corner of the bag and drizzle over cut up apples and bananas. Eat with a fork. Yum.
My new favorite breakfast Read More »
My little girl just turned four years old. This sends cold shivers through me. I wonder if it’s the beginning of the end, and if we will ever again be as close as we are now, and what I should be teaching her about femininity that I haven’t learned yet myself. So because I do
High heeled shoe cupcakes Read More »
So last week was no-grocery week and I decided to bake hotdog buns instead of buying them. I got out a jiffy recipe from a trusted cookbook and started measuring and rolling. In typical Shari-fashion I made them the day of the cookout so they’d be fresh, pinning everything on one effort without leaving myself
Confession: This is definitely the week in the summer when everything goes downhill as far as planning, cooking, and general attitude. This is the week when I realize that I am accomplishing roughly half of what I intended, my garden is weedy again, and nobody knows any Spanish yet. This is the week when everyone
Summertime Cooking Swap – 2014 Read More »
Ironically, the next things I want to share with you on this blog are fun ideas for working with kids on summer vacation. If you dare to take them as another list of things to do to be a Good Mom—well—don’t make me come back there! ***** Confession: I’m trying several new things this summer
Dear people, I would have loved to give you more warning on this, but I just found out myself. On Saturday, mail carriers across the country will be collecting food for families in need: the annual “Stamp Out Hunger!” campaign. All you have to do is place a bag of non-perishable pantry items by your
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