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Beef stew made my way In one of my first posts on this blog, I defined what I like to call “the confident home cook:” someone who, like me, has no professional training, but is nonetheless a good cook and moves about the kitchen with ease and – dare I say it? – joy. One of the [...] This post originally appeared earlier this week on my new blogging community, The Chicago Moms. I hope that you will swing by and check out some of great voices being featured there. When your child is a baby, your pediatrician, your mom, your friends and all the books will tell you at what age your baby should sit up, [...] This post originally appeared earlier this week on my new blogging community, The Chicago Moms. I hope that you will swing by and check out some of great voices being featured there. Labor Day 2010. It was unseasonably cool and breezy that morning, making our plan to enjoy one last day at the local pool seem less appealing. [...] Blueberry muffins with a crunchy, lemony streusel top Now that Zuzu has been cleared to eat wheat and baked eggs, my assistant pastry chef, J.R., and I have been baking up a storm. The only ingredient that I now have to avoid is dairy — other than nuts and peanuts of course – and it is quite [...] For most of my life, I have been too young for the magazines I was reading. Now I am too old. How’s that for a rude awakening? Like most girls, I started reading Seventeen when I was twelve. By the time I was actually seventeen, I had graduated to Glamour. Yes, admittedly, the articles about [...] |
   
 
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