winter
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Green Soup
This is the default soup I use for when I have an abundance of greens — spinach, kale, chard, etc., AND when I want all the kids including the picky teen to eat their greens. The original recipe comes from… Continue reading
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Sausage on Curried Lentils and Rice
This is one of those use-what-you-have recipes, so I don’t provide amounts. Continue reading
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Sticky Toffee Pudding
This is a dessert that not a lot of people talk about these days, though knowing that fads come and go, I’m sure one day people will remember it and start looking for the recipe again. I love this recipe… Continue reading
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Moroccan Carrot Salad
Carrot salad is one of those things that my whole family loves (except the youngest). It’s quick and easy to prepare. If I’m being lazy it’s really just carrot-vinegar-sugar-salt. But every now and then I add in a few things,… Continue reading
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Spaghetti with Sardine Sauce
Quick Lenten dinner you can make with ingredients from your pantry. Continue reading
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In the Bleak Mid-Winter, Gustav Holst
In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago. Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him Nor earth… Continue reading
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Red Salad with Tahini Sauce and Pomegranate Dressing
This is such a festive and yet simple salad that’s especially fitting for the holiday season when you’re likely to look for showy but not work-intensive dishes. The jewel-like pomegranate seeds that sometimes seem to be lit from within really… Continue reading
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What Nino Read, September 2014
Corduroy Makes a Cake It’s Milking Time (didn’t like this one that much — maybe he can’t relate since we hardly ever drink cow’s milk here) Cam Jansen: The Mystery of the Carnival Prize The Best Kind of Kiss by… Continue reading







