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Category Archives: Food and Drink
When Sunday religion hurts you, make soup
Be not afraid. God loves you and wants us to love one another as He loves us…He loves us with an infinitely faithful love. –Bl. Mother Teresa For me, Sundays feel like land-mine days. Somedays I manage to pick my … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Food and Drink
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Taking refuge in my soup pot
I have this visceral reaction to lentil beans. They remind me too much of a childhood steeped in hippie-influenced health food: millet for breakfast, whole-grain sandwiches for lunch, eggplant casserole for dinner. No processed food, no refined sugar, very little … Continue reading
Posted in Food and Drink
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On not going to church and making soup instead
Since I can’t go to church anymore, I’ve settled into a new Sunday morning routine. I help get the children dressed and out the door with their dad (they love church–and I’m happy to support them) and then I pour … Continue reading
When you can’t make sense of it all, make pizza. At the very least, dance in the kitchen with your rolling pin.
When I make pizza, I turn on the music and dance unabashedly with my rolling pin. Rolling pins are very obliging partners. Scandalous as it may sound to my proper fundamentalist upbringing, I really like to have fun. I can't … Continue reading
Getting my life in order (one mouthful at a time)
I have childbearing hips. This is fantastic in the delivery room, but not so fantastic in skinny jeans. And then I had twins. That's the title of my life now. AND THEN I HAD TWINS. My hips have never been the … Continue reading
Posted in Food and Drink, Her Royal Mommy-Ness
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Raising Fit Kids in a Fat World
[pasta shells, organic marinara sauce with ground turkey, steamed broccoli, parmesan cheese--a typical meal for my kids (all photos are mine)] Everyone knows there's an obesity epidemic in our country. I think "epidemic" is a fitting description since being … Continue reading
Posted in Food and Drink
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Amusing histrionics and why the iPhone spell checker sucks
I've been shuttling kids all over town for two hours (baseball drop-offs and pickups) and am finally in the drive-thru line when he texts me. Making casadias. WHAT? Casa Dios? Casa de diaz? Oh, wait. Quesadillas. Apparently, our iPhones don't … Continue reading →