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Christmas Eve, A Backwards Glance
January 6th, 2009by Lisa
I’m not sure how or why our tradition of fish on Christmas Eve began, but its roots stretch back to my childhood, when we celebrated with close friends. When it was my mother’s turn to host, she very often made a really delicious shrimp and rigatoni dish, accented with tomatoes and feta cheese. Those [...]
Wonderballs (because it’s a bit too early for holiday baking)
December 8th, 2008by Caroline
It’s an in-between time right now. We have some Christmas decorations up (paper-glitter snowflakes, a wreath on the door) but not all (no tree, no stockings). The boys are opening up windows on the Advent calendar and counting down the days till Christmas, while I am counting down the (fewer) days till I can [...]
Woods to Table, A Thanksgiving Movie about What we Might Have Eaten
November 30th, 2008By Lisa
Our annual family movie. Written by Ella. Illustrated by Ella and Kory. Animated by Kory. Executive Produced by Lisa & Finn.
Dinners Everybody Eats: The Second in an Optimistic Series
November 17th, 2008by Caroline
It’s been a month since I posted the first in this series and everybody is still happily eating roasted cauliflower, so I’m emboldened to post again. This time it’s a meal that Tony, years ago (pre-kids, pre-marriage) dubbed Sweetie Pie Supper because it’s what I would make for myself when he was out; the [...]
Some Like ‘em Hot, a Pepper Conundrum
November 6th, 2008By Lisa
Most of the time, we want our kids to eat what we eat, right? And most of the time, we work really hard to get them to eat what we put on the table, right?
It’s been our general philosophy that the kids eat what we eat. End of story. In our home, this has [...]
Dinners Everybody Eats: An Optimistic Series
October 14th, 2008posted by Caroline
I realize that just by writing that title, I run the risk of losing once-happy eaters from our dinner table; somehow they will sense that I consider this meal a winner, and they’ll cringe and complain next time it appears on the table. Eli, using the phrase he adopted from our winter-long reading [...]
Berries, II
September 22nd, 2008posted by Lisa
Caroline’s gorgeous post about berries highlighted one fundamental way that our families are different. We write about the very many ways that our family food cultures overlap in our introduction and some of the ways that we don’t. We thought a lot about cooking and meat and picky eaters. But we didn’t think [...]
Berries
September 19th, 2008posted by Caroline
At home, I am a miser with berries. I haven’t quite gotten over the sticker shock when I pick up a basket of organic berries. But I fork over the money, thinking of the farmers who will use the income to pay their employees a decent wage, feed their children, buy health insurance.
Still, [...]
The Blog as Teaching Tool, Part I
September 17th, 2008posted by Lisa
As we sat one night to dinner, not long after I started this blog, at home in California, the usual insanity erupted.
My normally saint-like children, who of course can do no ill at the table (please see all earlier, idyllic, vacation-posts where gastronomic peace and harmony reigned supreme, and manners were observed with [...]
What We Found at Home
September 9th, 2008posted by Caroline
I didn’t know what to expect when we got home from France. Usually we leave the house empty for a week or so, and a friend often thoughtfully stocks our fridge with milk and bread and eggs, maybe some fresh fruit, for our return. But this time, we were gone much longer and [...]