June 2010
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If I Were Stranded on a Desert Island and Could...
It would be this version from The Angelica Home Kitchen. I’ve substituted canned chickpeas (garbanzo beans) because are you really going to soak and cook your own beans? I thought not.
Hummus
3 cups canned chickpeas (liquid reserved) 1/2 cup tahini 2/3 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice 2 cloves garlic, halved lengthwise 1 teaspoon ground cumin 3/4 teaspoon salt pinch cayenne 3/4 cup water...
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Feeling Blue?
Then these muffins are for you. (OK, I’ll stop rhyming.)
This blueberry muffin recipe came from Stonyfield Farm, and my friend Elena and I adapted it to make it more kid-appropriate. Fresh blueberries are relatively inexpensive right now, so it’s a perfect time to make this for your family’s next breakfast.
Fresh Blueberry Muffins 1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour 1 cup whole wheat flour 2...
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A Treehouse of One's Own
My daughter has officially entered the independent phase. Now that she’s “Maggie 3.5,” she’s got her own ideas, ways of doing things and the willfulness to make it happen. With everything from getting dressed in the morning to what she eats at mealtime, Maggie is ready to flex her recently discovered muscles of autonomy. “I do it meself,” has become the top Olde English phrase spoken in our...
The Ordinary is Extraordinary
Lately Maggie has been waking up at 5:45 on the dot, singing “Let It Be.” No matter how late I’ve been up the night before, no matter how much I could use another hour’s sleep, there’s my little girl belting, diva-style to Paul, John, George and Ringo. I generally throw the pillow over my head, hoping she’ll fall back to sleep. I holler at her, “It’s too early to be up.” She usually stops...
