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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

Double-Delicious Grilled Chicken

Posted August 10, 2009
As you know, chicken kind of gives me the willies. Even, yes, this lovely Nature's Promise chicken. Did nature promise to lop off the pink little breasty cutlets, these fleshy Illinois shapes sliced out of a topographical map of the United States of Poultry, and then did nature promise to shrink wrap them like miniature severed limbs before double-plastic bagging them in their chickeny little Hazmat suits? I didn't think so. I had to consult Houdini's… Read More
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Camping and Eating

Posted August 03, 2009
We couldn't help stealing surreptitious glances at our neighbors during the five days we were camping: there they were, cooking tidily at their stand-up four-burner stove, complete with pot rack, utensil rack, and countertop; there they were washing up pristinely at their wrought-iron wash stand, complete with decorative soap pump and snow-white dish towel; there they were, lighting the dozen or so lanterns that defined the path to their immaculate site. And there we were with our burn-scarred watermelon-print vinyl… Read More
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Warm and Smoky Potato Salad

Posted July 25, 2009
We interrupt this quinoa special with a word from our sponsor, The Bacon Lady. I know, it's a little helter-skelter, this food column, what with a recipe for bran timbales one week and marshmallow-Cheezit balls the next, but that's a little bit how it is around here. And bacon? Well. I'm sure I don't need to go on and on about bacon's charisma and magnetism. Either you eat bacon, and understand this perfectly well, or you don't eat bacon but… Read More
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Make Your Own (Quinoa!) Sundaes

Posted July 16, 2009
I understand that I'm about to lose a lot of you here, and that I risk compromising my integrity as a peddler of kid-friendly meals and becoming the kind of cultish health fascist who would suddenly foist upon you QUINOA! THE SUPERFOOD OF THE ANDES! I know. Let me start by telling you that it's pronounced keen-wa, just so that you don't end up in Whole Foods insisting to the eye-rolling hippy supermodel of a floor manager that what you… Read More
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Mango Fro-yo Pops

Posted July 07, 2009
My friend Kathleen laughed at me last night when I asked if I could post a photo of her daughter here. "You're putting up a recipe for popsicles? I don't know that anyone really needs a recipe for that." Oh but they do. I mean, obviously you can just pour grape juice or lemonade into your popsicle molds, and your kids will ooh and aah and be thrilled. You could freeze bong water, and as long as there was a… Read More
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Asian-style Chicken Salad

Posted June 29, 2009
This is the time of year when people who don't do Community Supported Agriculture--aka a "farm share"--are laughing all the way to the Farmer's Market or grocery store. It's late June, you think to yourself. What does our family like to eat? You might choose a lovely quart of strawberries, a dinner's worth of sugar snap peas, and a sweet little head of butter lettuce, and tote it all happily back to your dinner table, confident in the meal you… 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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