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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

Finger-licking Ribs

Posted June 08, 2009
Yes, I am the kind of person who plies you with eggs and hummus for weeks on end in my cheap, de-facto vegetarian way, and then throws you this pricey, carnivorous curve ball. That's how it is for me in the duck-duck-goose of dinner preparations. Sometimes the fact of an early June Friday evening with friends just feels like cause for celebration.

Plus, well, ribs. Ribs were for Michael what bacon was for me: the gateway meat as… Read More
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Hummus Among Us

Posted June 01, 2009
It all started with a pita the size of a car tire. No. It started before that, in Target, where I'd taken the kids on an errand, even though it was such a beautiful Sunday morning, and driving to the mall was a strange and guilty pleasure. But a "quick" trip to Target is about as likely a "quick" trip to Kathmandu. Finding what we were looking for was easy--though I have to be cagey about it, since it's for… Read More
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Banana Muffins

Posted May 26, 2009
When I taught creative writing at UC Santa Cruz, I used to start the semester with a free-write on oatmeal: 15 minutes of pen-to-paper disgorging about comfort and obligation, about the scrubbing of burnt pot bottoms and the brown-sugar smell of home. And I'm thinking that when I teach again, I'm going to do the same exercise, but with bananas.

Find me someone who doesn't have an opinion about them. Really. Birdy bites into a banana with the kind… Read More
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Rhubarb Crumb Bars

Posted May 18, 2009
We had my favorite kind of weekend--what is known around here as "a real weekendy weekend." Somehow there was time enough for absolute lolling--late breakfasts, pajama-clad board games ( Settlers of Catan is our new favorite), lackadaisical gardening (the kind where I pull weeds one-handed because I don't want to set down my beer), the pleasantly melancholy burying of the two Charlies (goldfish) who'd been in a freezer Ziploc since their respective December and February deaths, and B &… Read More
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Hakuna Frittata

Posted May 11, 2009
You don't remember this song from The Lion King? Really? It means no worries about serving eggs for dinner yet again. They're inexpensive and easy and nutritious. It also means just because you're running your kids' school fundraising auction doesn't mean you can order a pizza 10 nights in a row so get to cracking some eggs into a pan because it's dinnertime already.

Because this is a food column I won't go on and on about the… Read More
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Asparagus with Delicious Dip

Posted May 04, 2009
Hadley, Massachusetts is one town over from us. This is an especially important fact to remember come May because Hadley is the asparagus capital of the world. The world! I know.

It's also where our very good friends live (our friends who are Ben's friend Ava's parents, if you're a long-time reader here). Not surprisingly, given the whole world-capital situation, our friends live across the street from a ginormous asparagus farm. An asparagus farm the owners of which… 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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