after the 6 day ny fling followed by no less than 5 bowls of oatmeal in 3 days, it was time to cook something.  honestly, i could have gone longer but it’s this csa issue that i deal with.  i am beyond covered up with the last of the summer tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, peppers, zucchini’s and now winter squash [...]

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if you’ve not been even an occasional reader here at ceF, let me just tell you that i am from new york city.  and that it is my city.  i own it.  yup.  it’s mine.  and i’m in love with my city and my city loves me back.  we speak the same language.  i understand ny in [...]

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so you buy some homemade butternut squash ravioli - mine came from lazarolli’s in nashville.  boil them gently in salted water, careful not to burst the little pillows. and then you brown the butter.  and there is a technique here because believe me, i’ve blown it before… but i’ve found quite the description of how to go [...]

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it was mediterranean night tonight.  the kids love all this kind of food.  and i gotta say, i love kids who love lamb.  i even love kids who’ll just eat lamb.  it makes their stock go up and well, anything helps when it comes to kids in my mostly non-kid world… as a rule, lamb is [...]

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cary loves pad thai.  a lot.  he loves pad thai so much that i can sometimes even bribe him with the promise of this dinner.  i’ve found that it is good to have a dish this adored in your relationship arsenal, especially when dealing with certain yard-work hating men. so early on in our relationship and before my blogging [...]

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i try not to fret. but i do and it’s a long list why – some of which is ridiculously unfounded, some i’m sure comes from deeply ingrained childhood stuff (got an hour?) and some is just a part of living on this earth and being human. and well, obviously not a very good buddhist. [...]

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it happened to me.  and now i have lived to tell the tale of my web hosting server going farther south than i already logistically am – and pretty much shutting my blog down for awhile.  somehow the experience was strangely interesting.  when the mystery of this sudden quasi crash was in full swing, i found myself wondering if something fatal [...]

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