food
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Thai Spicy Lobster and Pineapple Curry (Kaeng Kung Mangkawn)
1/4 cup coconut cream 2 tablespoons red curry paste (I’ll have a recipe up sometime) 1 tablespoon fish sauce 1 tablespoon palm sugar 1 cup coconut milk 1 1/2 cups pineapple wedges (fresh preferred, but canned is acceptable) lobster tail… Continue reading
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Rod Dreher and Michael Pollan Table Talk
Two of my favorite writers — Rod Dreher and Michael Pollan — talk food. Must read! Some helpful resources: Slow Food USA Local Harvest Eat Wild And information: a YouTube Playlist: Torn From the Land: The story of the take… Continue reading
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Cambodian Grilled Corn (Poat Dot)
GRILLED CORN (Poat Dot) For 6 ears of grilled or steamed corn: In a saucepan, mix together 2 tablespoons oil, 3 tablespoons minced green onions, a tablespoon each of water, sugar and fish sauce, and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Cook over… Continue reading
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Recipes Coming Up…
Now that I’m starting to feel a bit more normal, I thought I’d pick up a project I started way back that I never got to finish. Last night I finished adding the links to recipes I posted at Like… Continue reading
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Comedy of Errors, or a Very Special Kind of Corned Beef
Mama asks what we want for lunch. (Mama is visiting from St. Louis and helping out in the cooking department because I still can’t cook much.) She asks Tops (my brother who’s also visiting from Philly for the weekend). Tops… Continue reading
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St. Louis Eats
This post is for our good friends D&L & their kids, on college tour right now…. They’ll be visiting Washington University tomorrow, dh’s and my alma mater and where our 17-yo went for preschool… Here you go: The Queeny Tower… Continue reading
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Links and a Recipe
Baby Poems over at Martha’s, Yes They’re All Ours! The American Mathematics Competitions MathCounts Latin Spell Checker Catholic Music Network Spirit and Song Why Eating a Big Mac is Cheaper than Eating a Salad Latin Altar Card (pdf file) Altar… Continue reading
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Catholic Homeschooling Mom Food Blogs!!!
I am beyond excited. I am jumping up and down and can’t keep still!!! My fellow homeschooling moms have started their own food blogs and I just can’t contain myself. This is a day I’ve been praying for for the… Continue reading
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Kuwento
Aisa and I have been working on High School of Your Dreams. She’s picked her texts and I’ve ordered most of them. We have to backtrack to Algebra 1 because I mistakenly assumed she was done and had her do… Continue reading
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Pad Thai / Kuaytiaw Phat Thai
1 lb. rice noodles (the dry, flat kind that’s about 1/4- to 1/3=inch thick) 1 1/2 cups large shrimp, peeled, deveined and butterflied 1/4 cup tamarind puree (If you don’t have access to tamarind puree, you can make it by… Continue reading