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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

Cranberry Upside-Down Cake

Posted November 24, 2008
If I actually had the picture I really wanted to post here, you would squint and squint at it, and say, what is that? A plus-sign made out of sponge cake? And the answer would be yes. Or rather no. Or sort of. I grew up in a household that used the occasion of my mother's baking of a square pineapple upside-down cake to confirm various theories of hedonism, geometry, greed, and a kind of Darwinian relationship to crusted brown… Read More
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Crudités

Posted November 17, 2008
This is my gift to you this Thanksgiving-the gift of your not cramming your pie hole with baked brie and grape-jelly meatballs right before you sit down eat the biggest meal of the year complete with a bucket of gravy, a basket of Aunt Willetta's dinner rolls, and so many variations on the theme of glucose-in-a-crust that you have a sudden epiphany about pi, and how it goes on and on, forever and ever, or at least until you fall… Read More
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Gingerbread

Posted November 10, 2008
This is just the kind of gingerbread you crave when dinnertime has suddenly become pitch-black and cold, as it now has, and you feel like it's midnight all the time and like you're up in Scotland drinking whiskey from the bottle and waiting for spring. It's big, soft, and comforting, like the down comforter of the cake world, and it fills your house with the spicy, delicious smell of holiday baking, even on a regular old school night. Plus, it… Read More
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Tofu P.S.

Posted November 03, 2008
For some reason, this photo didn't post with the others. Perhaps because I had suggested, for the caption, "I can bring home the tofu. Fry it up in a pan. And never never never let you forget you're a man." Maybe there's some kind of seventies-Enjolie-perfume-commerical screening function?
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Soy-Glazed Tofu

Posted November 03, 2008
Doesn't "soy-glazed" sound so lovely? It was either that or "pan-roasted tofu" or "butter-browned tofu"-the idea being, of course, to make it sound like it's halibut at a fancy restaurant, not like it's a one-pound block of quivering beany blandness. Ah, tofu. We eat a lot of it. It's inexpensive, it's incredibly good for you, our kids love it, and you can treat it like a blank canvas. Plus, it fills us with nostalgia for the early days of our… Read More
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Granola

Posted October 27, 2008
I seriously considered adjusting the last photo here-and by "adjusting," I mean, of course, blurring out the box of Corn Chex in the background. Because it's a bit tricky to make the case for whole grains and whole foods, for investing in your family's health in every possible way-time, money, the womanly art of persuasion-when the love of my life eats a bowl of Corn Chex every single morning. And by "every single morning," what I mean is every single… 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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