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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

Buttermilk Pancakes

Posted February 23, 2009
If you've ever lived in--or even visited--Santa Cruz, California, then you've eaten breakfast at Zachary's. Doubtless people bring their children there, and doubtless we brought our Benny when he was a wee nursling who stared excitedly up at the ceiling fans like they were movie stars he recognized, but all my memories are of the twenty-something variety: adding our hungover names to the wait list that was so long you felt like you were signing a petition for something really… Read More
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Basic Sautéed Chicken

Posted February 15, 2009
It is hard to describe my relationship to chicken. I eat it and like it, sometimes very much. But cooking it? "Heebie jeebies" is a serious understatement. I dread wrangling it out of its wrapping, wrangling various wrapped bits of its insides from inside of it. And the whole time I'm stopping to scrub my hands with soap and water approximately every nanosecond. Then I wash the tap that I may or may not have contaminated with my contaminated chickeny… Read More
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Chocolate Cake

Posted February 09, 2009
It's not a health or fanciness thing, since I spent both of my pregnancies assiduously following the prenatal diet called "Can of Pringles"--but I'm just not a huge fan of sweets. Which is not to say that there aren't exceptions: gummy Coke bottles, for instance, or anything nice and salty, such as caramel popcorn or gingerbread or chocolate-covered pretzels or Dulce de Leche ice cream. I also really love pudding and anything baked by my mum, and, okay, lots of… Read More
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Black Bean Dip

Posted February 02, 2009
Ah, the musical fruit. We can't get enough. Even while we're actually eating the beans, Birdy likes to make pleasant conversation about them: "Sometimes when I fart--like just now--it feels like the fart is actually coming out of my yoni instead of my butt." Which leads Ben to speculating: "Do you think you could do that thing with a fart--like those people do with dummies? Where you're the one farting, but you make it sound like it's coming out of… Read More
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Super Bowl Snacking

Posted February 01, 2009
What? You didn't peg me as a good candidate for Super Bowl Snack advice? Just because I'm the person who wanders in and says "What inning is it now?" or "Is this a good time for you to come out and deal with a diaper or is your goalie on deck or whatever?" I know. Still, in the spirit of this great American occasion, even though the kids and I are home alone this weekend, and all we're going to… Read More
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Tamale Pie

Posted January 26, 2009
Birdy's had a fever for four days; we've had bad news about work and money; Michael and I have been arguing in that gross hissing way where whenever the kids turn around you stop and smile those big fake smiles that make it look like you have twice your normal number of teeth. I actually love winter--it's like one big long glittering-blue prelude to spring--but there's something about these days that makes me feel like it's always dinnertime and I… 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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