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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: Avocado and cucumber gazpacho, Running With Tweezers — I HAVE to make this! Google’s impressive healthy food program, Food Politics — Really interesting. I like the vending machine pricing strategy: “one cent per gram of sugar, two cents per gram of fat, four cents per gram of saturated fat, one dollar…
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Cooking Lessons With Chris
As promised, here’s the video from the Plum TV visit to the Brotherhood. Chris is in the second half of the video. My, do I think my hubby looks handsome in this. He’d make a great TV chef! 🙂 And, in case you were wondering, both of those dishes are just fabulous.
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Festivities
Even though I am often very down on our country, I love the Fourth of July. I see this day as a reminder of what we can be and a celebration of hope for a better tomorrow. I grew up in a town that made it impossible not to enjoy the Fourth with three weeks…
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Report Card
This little check-in is all about food. Wonderful delicious food that I will be sharing with you throughout the week, because I have a backlog of recipes: sea bass with roasted fennel, carrot, and potatoes; rice pudding; strawberry crumb muffins; and white lasagna. We’ve been eating really well around here, enjoying summer fruits as side…
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Not a Report Card
There are a million things I could write about today, but all I can think about is this email I just received from Phil & Teds: Yeah, I screamed, “HOLY COW!” and scared Chris (but luckily did not wake up Nora, though it would have been worth it). And now, I’m too excited to sit…
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More Love Than Hate
Nora’s relationship with the beach is slowly improving, one baby step at a time. Not only is she usually willing to put her feet in the water now, she’s finally really into the sand.Between the toys Mr. V’s mama left behind when the moved back to Florida and some free yard sale left overs, Nora…
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A Little Bit Brilliant and a Little Bit Not
Today was another wonderful, wonderful day. It started with a strawberry rhubarb buckle that I mostly made up on the spot, and that turned out delicious. I love when baking just works, and I love that I finally understand so much more about how to combine ingredients to get the desired effect. This morning, I…
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Berry Sweet
It’s probably good that I forget how much I love summer during the cold months, because I would be pretty depressed if I spent gray and dreary Nantucket winters mourning the amazingness that is a perfect summer day: Bike rides to the grocery store, walks to the farmers market, and digging through straw and leaves…
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Nora’s Friend
Even though babysitting isn’t my ideal long-term plan, I have to say that it’s really been a good thing for our family. I’ve made a great friend in Mr. T’s mama, I get plenty of practice in juggling two children (which will come in handy someday), and Nora gets the benefit of having another child…
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Vervacious!
Chris has been trying to convince me that we need a different double stroller, because this one is a giant pain. It’s wheels are super small, not at all cut out for Nantucket sidewalksand it’s barely narrow enough to scrap through doorways.For whatever reason (more that I should get into at the moment), I am…
