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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

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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Roasted Salmon with Ginger-Cilantro Vinaigrette

Posted April 27, 2009
I got confused about fish and mostly stopped cooking it. That's what happened. I wasn't sure about the safety guidelines, for one thing: all those cut-and-save lists from magazines and organizations, and red means eat it and you'll keel over and die and yellow means eat it and your brain will liquefy and then you'll keel over and die, and a sad-fish icon means "over-fished" and a sad-baby icon means "more mercury than the band Queen." But also, the source… Read More
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Chocolate Pudding

Posted April 20, 2009
A friend of mine once appeared especially exhausted during an afternoon play date when the children were babies, and when I asked about it, she said, "Oh, yeah--I stayed up after the kids went to sleep to make goldfish crackers." And then she pointed to a bowl of what looked really, exactly, like Pepperidge Farms Goldfish Crackers.

Which is to say: when it comes to homemade, I think it's important to pick your battles. The idea of wrangling… Read More
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Whole-wheat Pasta with Chickpeas and Lemon

Posted April 13, 2009
So, I finally found out why my kids like chickpeas so much. I mean, I love them myself, but I always feel like they're kind of hard to get to know--tenderhearted and well-meaning, sure, but standoffish in a dusty-tasting and mealy sort of way. And yet, the kids have always eaten them, which thrills me, because chickpeas are a SUPERFOOD! Not just a good food, oh no, no sir, but a SUPERFOOD! What counts as a SUPERFOOD! exactly? Good question.… Read More
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Matzo Brei

Posted April 08, 2009
Ah, you are good people, to ask after a matzo brei recipe--and to offer your own! Thank you. Matzo brei is a traditional Passover concoction, and there are as many opinions about its proper preparation as there are Jews in the world: you could make it like a big pancake served with syrup and jelly (as if!) or like this, the correct way, where it's scrambled like eggs and eaten with salt and pepper (and maybe a little Tabasco, sorry… 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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