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Dalai Mama Dishes

by Catherine Newman

Catherine Newman cooks for the family

Dalai Mama Dishes

Catherine Newman cooks for the family

Dad's Spaghetti Sauce

Posted September 21, 2009
Oh, fiction writers, you are so lucky. You can turn your dreadful old boyfriend, Dan--the one who hitchhiked to Taos every other minute to play frisbee--into your novel's egomaniacal hacky-sacking "Stan" who train hops to Santa Fe. And all you have to do is add one of those These are fictional characters dredged from the brilliant depths of my own imagination. Nobody is actually based on you, you narcissistic New Mexican hitchhiker. caveats.

But you can't really write a… Read More
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Peachy Peach Jam

Posted September 14, 2009
It's funny--I started to title this post "Preserving Summer," and then it occurred to me that preserving, in this and that way, is turning out to be my life's work. I think all the time about what I would bottle if I could: the beloved-animal smell of Ben's hair; the way Birdy's silky limbs slide over me when she climbs into bed in the morning; the shadow of eyelashes like wings over their sleeping pink cheeks. These childhoods are ripe… Read More
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Two Late Summer Dips

Posted September 08, 2009
It's funny that "dippy" is a disparaging adjective. What on earth is the connection between French onion and scatterbrainedness? Just because I would stick a chip into anything soft enough to scoop up, whether or not it was actually food, doesn't make me a ditz, does it? I love dips and dipping, and in almost every photograph of myself I've ever seen, I am applying some kind of condiment to some kind of snack food, even if it's simply squeezing… Read More
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Chocolate Zucchini Cupcakes

Posted August 31, 2009
The first time my mother baked a zucchini bread--this was way back in the Pleistocene era of striped bell bottoms, smocked tunics, and Andy Gibb's "Love Is Thicker Than Water"--we all thought it was wildly exotic. It was even crazier than banana bread, which was already pretty crazy. "I can hardly even taste the zucchini!" we said, and shook our heads in amazement. "It just tastes like cake! Like good cake, even!"

I feel that way about these cupcakes.… Read More
10 people found this post helpful 9 Comments

Minted Cherry Tabouli

Posted August 22, 2009
You say tabbouleh, I say tabouli, let's call the whole thing off. Okay, let's not, even if you spell it "taboo-li" because you've eaten bad versions of it at too many potlucks. I know. Some potluck dishes just seem to have gotten up on the wrong side of the vegetarian cookbook, you know? Gritty hummus, bland pasta salad, watery tabouli. Part of the problem is that grain recipes don't always multiply all that successfully. When Michael and I lived in… Read More
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Easy Roasted Tomato Sauce

Posted August 17, 2009
I feel like I'm living inside a tenth-grade drosophila experiment. The fruit flies are everywhere: clustered on the bananas, swarming the compost, flying up out of the drain in a way that makes me not want to think about what might be so exciting in the drain. But mostly, they are in love with the tomatoes. They dream about their oozing insides, read aloud to them from Lord of the Flies, sing them their phenotypical love songs, ogle them with… Read More
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Catherine Newman is the author of the memoir, Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family, available online and in bookstores nationwide.

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