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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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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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…