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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

Vanilla Extract

Posted December 08, 2008
What with the flailing economy and all, this just isn't the year to give everybody ruby-encrusted martini shakers and a nice, tasteful bar of gold, like I'd planned. And yet it is, more than ever, a time for giving, isn't it? For shoring ourselves up by saying, yes, here, there is abundance even now, if only in our hearts and loving intentions. So I'm offering you this good homemade gift idea, which does not require you to compensate for a… Read More
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Carrot Salad

Posted December 01, 2008
Hello! How was your Thanksgiving? Excuse me? WHAT? No. I still can't hear you. Because somehow my cold has transformed itself into a waterbed that's wedged inside my inner ear, and whatever's left of my hearing is in there, napping.

But I know you're not here to hear about the incessant popping or how I keep blowing my nose and clicking my jaw and cursing or how the children seem, for the first time in their lives, to be… Read More
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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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About Catherine Newman

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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