Dinners Everybody Likes: Sushi
by Caroline In the spirit of the day, we took a vote on our celebratory Inauguration Day dinner, and sushi won. It’s one of those modular meals that everybody likes because each can tailor it to his or...
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by Lisa Not long ago, on a family trip to San Francisco, Ella, Finley, and I found ourselves staring at the counter of a French bakery, at a pile of croissants. They didn’t know what they were, and as...
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by Lisa One thing I’ve learned doing this blog: food styling is hard. So don’t let the slipshod photo above deter you. This is an amazing recipe that came together one rainy afternoon last weekend....
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by Caroline Sometimes I think about this phrase, “learning to eat” quite literally: who first learned how to break through all the artichoke plant’s thorny defenses and found the fleshy ends of the...
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by Lisa Or: Surviving 3 months of Migraines. Or: Surviving Afterschool without Insanity. Or: Getting Dinner on the Table. Fast. Or: What to Do About Dinner When You and/or Your Children Just Can’t...
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by Lisa All of a sudden, it seems, the stone fruit is in the market. We have peaches, plums, apricots–and big, sloping piles of bright red cherries. The cherry season is short, and very sweet. And...
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by Caroline Every summer, I feel torn. The grasshopper part of me (do you remember your fables?) wants to gorge on all the varieties of stone fruit, gorgeous red tomatoes, tender peas and sweet corn,...
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by Caroline I love peeking in other people’s shopping bags and baskets. The other day a fellow Trader Joe’s shopper snagged my cart by accident and as I wheeled hers up and down the aisles, I marveled...
View ArticleGoodbye to all that
By Lisa not much more al fresco dining Even though the temperatures here are still summerlike, and our markets are still full of piles of plums, rainbow swaths of tomatoes, giant bouquets of cilantro...
View ArticleFarmer’s Markets, Turkish Style
by Caroline We shop at farmer’s markets so regularly, they are such an unquestioned part of both Lisa’s and my weekly routines, that we don’t actually write much, specifically, about them here. We have...
View ArticleDinners Everybody Likes: Sushi
by Caroline In the spirit of the day, we took a vote on our celebratory Inauguration Day dinner, and sushi won. It’s one of those modular meals that everybody likes because each can tailor it to his or...
View ArticleWe might not have Paris…
by Lisa Not long ago, on a family trip to San Francisco, Ella, Finley, and I found ourselves staring at the counter of a French bakery, at a pile of croissants. They didn’t know what they were, and as...
View ArticleHave Beef Will Braise
by Lisa One thing I’ve learned doing this blog: food styling is hard. So don’t let the slipshod photo above deter you. This is an amazing recipe that came together one rainy afternoon last weekend....
View ArticleDe Gustibus: Kumquat Marmalade & Veggie Bacon Sandwich
by Caroline Sometimes I think about this phrase, “learning to eat” quite literally: who first learned how to break through all the artichoke plant’s thorny defenses and found the fleshy ends of the...
View ArticleSurviving First Grade
by Lisa Or: Surviving 3 months of Migraines. Or: Surviving Afterschool without Insanity. Or: Getting Dinner on the Table. Fast. Or: What to Do About Dinner When You and/or Your Children Just Can’t...
View ArticleLife is a bowl of…
by Lisa All of a sudden, it seems, the stone fruit is in the market. We have peaches, plums, apricots–and big, sloping piles of bright red cherries. The cherry season is short, and very sweet. And...
View ArticleFrozen Pesto Cupcakes
by Caroline Every summer, I feel torn. The grasshopper part of me (do you remember your fables?) wants to gorge on all the varieties of stone fruit, gorgeous red tomatoes, tender peas and sweet corn,...
View ArticleSocial Shopping
by Caroline I love peeking in other people’s shopping bags and baskets. The other day a fellow Trader Joe’s shopper snagged my cart by accident and as I wheeled hers up and down the aisles, I marveled...
View ArticleGoodbye to all that
By Lisa not much more al fresco dining Even though the temperatures here are still summerlike, and our markets are still full of piles of plums, rainbow swaths of tomatoes, giant bouquets of cilantro...
View ArticleFarmer’s Markets, Turkish Style
by Caroline We shop at farmer’s markets so regularly, they are such an unquestioned part of both Lisa’s and my weekly routines, that we don’t actually write much, specifically, about them here. We have...
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