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Meals of grief and love (and writing)

As the logistics manager for the system, and my family, I pretty much am in charge of making sure core things happen. Not so much caring for Noah and Liam – that’s a priority for everyone, although Noah, lately, is … Continue reading

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Ummmm curry. “Curry?”

So Sarah asked for my curry recipe and the truth is, I don’t really have one. I do have two recommendations for Indian (or other) cookbooks: Vij’s at Home, where the mushroom potato curry recipe is amazing (as well as … Continue reading

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Robot slaves! Wine and whine night

My robot slaves and I prepared food for wine night: Robot pizza doughmaker Robot onion slicer Robot baby entertainer So the pizza was caramelized onion with feta, the prosciutto bundles – the blue cheese ratio was a bit off as … Continue reading

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Food hoarding, and wriggly boy

A friend of mine, who has an Alexander, has a tongue-in-cheek theory that a child named any variant on that name (Alexandra, Lexi and so on) can be a bit of a firecracker. (Lexi, in our system, who is a … Continue reading

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Entertaining notes

I did the seltzer + cranberry juice + lemon sugar syrupy thing and it all went over brilliantly, so thank you. I also have added some cans of concentrate of fancy juice to my freezer so that I am prepared … Continue reading

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Entertaining – a question

I’m hosting wine night again, which combined with last weekend’s host-fest and the family dinner last night for my parents has got to be some kind of record. My poor introverted husband is about to flip out, so that will … Continue reading

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Whoa. Child grief.

Noah has had a rough year really – he had appendicitis which was grade-one trauma; my being pregnant and on bedrest was disturbing; he hasn’t been having the best time at school. With school the ‘problem’ centres around language. Noah’s … Continue reading

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CSA bliss

You know you’ve achieved solid middle class when your reaction to an overly wet, overly cold growing season is: Cool! My farm is having trouble! I am so close to the land! But this has been me, this year. We … Continue reading

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Food plan

This week’s food plan is: Tonight, Monday, Tuesday – eat whatever we can forage from the fridge to use it up before we go (on tap: squash, carrots, potatoes, eggs, cauliflower, cheese, lots of canned stuff). Wed-Sun: Eat gourmet, thoughtfully … Continue reading

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Food post: no plan, and plan

As I stated somewhere, last week we did not have a food plan. It worked out just fine that way. Of course now I have trouble remembering what we had exactly except for Friday, when we had penne with tomato … Continue reading

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