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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

Migas

Posted April 06, 2009
You're trying to figure out dinner, I know, and we're getting to that in just a second, I swear. But first this foodless little detour through a lesson in classical rhetorical devices. Because I know you've been desperately curious about the term praeteritio: "What the heck does it mean?" you've doubtless wondered to yourself hundreds of times. And I'll tell you. It means mentioning by not mentioning. As in, if you happened to be Cicero, "I will not even mention… Read More
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Macaroni and Cheese

Posted March 30, 2009
Sometimes you need to offer a comforting dinner. For example, say baby Anna comes to visit you on the banks of plum creek and she tears up all the paper dolls so you tell Laura to let her play with Charlotte, her beloved rag doll, only then Anna doesn't want to give Charlotte up, and so you insist that Laura's too big for dolls anyways and you make her give Anna the doll, which you later find abandoned in a… Read More
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Yummy Buttermilk Biscuits

Posted March 23, 2009
My children feel about any dinner with biscuits in it the way I feel about any movie with Laura Linney in it: however bad it gets, at least there's that. And so a warm, flaky biscuit with butter makes the kids feel very forgiving towards, say, lentil soup, which is what we were having for dinner last night (again). And these biscuits happen to be extra-delicious: crunchy and wheaty on the outside, tender and tangy within. The original… Read More
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Perfect Oatmeal Cookies

Posted March 16, 2009
You know when your kids have been sick, except then it's day three of being home from school and they're up and about, munching crackers and introducing the Pretty Ponies to the Playmobil Vikings, so you kind of forget they're sick, only then you hear a terrible keening wail and when you run upstairs to investigate the calamity (A compound fracture? A puncture wound? Decapitation?) you find a small girl lying on the carpet weeping: "I don't want to clean… Read More
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Soy-Braised Chicken

Posted March 09, 2009
So, yesterday we were skipping outside in our shirtsleeves in the mild air, and today there's three inches of slush covering our footprints. It's the cusp season, and I love it--love the geese honking home through the sky in their exhausted, raggedy vees, the chickadees at the feeder who seem to have recovered finally from their winter-long bout of laryngitis, the swollen buds of the dogwood, the snowdrops emerging shyly through the sudden brown of the ground. And yet, foodwise,… Read More
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Roasted Chickpea Snacks

Posted March 02, 2009
I think you may have misunderstood. Yes, it's true, I'm very I don't like frosting or I don't love chocolate. You beg me to layer apples and sugar in my baked pancake, to coat the bottoms of my buttermilk pancakes with sugar and cinnamon, and these are good ideas, despite how I'm all No thank you. But this is not virtuousness, do you understand that? It's that I have a profound vice, and what that vice is is salt. Not… 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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