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      October 27: Cherry Bombe University, NYC, I'll be teaching a workshop on all things homemade. More info here.

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      October 13, 1:00 pm Boston Book Festival: I'll be speaking at Eataly Boston about how to turn your food dreams into writing! Book signing to follow. More info here.

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what to do with preserved lemons, part 2

Hello from here. (Cold, cold, cold.) I'm going to try to finally wash my windows today, as the world has lost some of its usual sparkle. I'm mired down in January already, just when I'd really decided, last month, that I unapologetically love winter. But last month there were bonfires and ...

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it's all how you define success

This weekend, I'll plant the garlic, and then I'm done. The garden and I are no good for each other. We come together with the best of intentions, the garden and I, always thinking it will be different, thinking we have finally changed each other. I hum to myself as I kneel in the straw. I am ...

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coconut congee with chicken and greens

There are nights that fit together like puzzles. I'm standing at the stove--it's 5:00 and there is a coming and going in the house right now which is decidedly unsettled, although also joyous in a sun-through-the-window kind of way. I'm making congee, the thick rice porridge that is thickening in ...

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red lentil soup with spicy creme fraiche

If my kitchen had a coat of arms, it would surely include the lentil. First, there was basic lentil soup, made as my mother and Mollie Katzen taught me. That's with the greenish brown lentils, the cheapest in the bulk section. The lentils break down, and so the whole thing is thick and warm and ...

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apple celeriac soup

This is not the first time I have been inspired by a celeriac root. It wasn't just the soup. It was the day. And although the day was filled with all sorts of other agenda items, this celeriac root was hanging out around my thoughts like a muse. If I am to be entirely honest, I must tell you that it ...

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white bean soup with garlic, kale, and sausage

There was a bakery in Santa Fe that I used to go to when I was in school, a place called Sage Bakehouse. It was all concrete inside, big and cavernous and always warm from the ovens. They had a few little tables and a counter up front, and I loved to sit there and eat a muffin and just inhale the ...

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green chile stew

It's about time we satisfied another craving around here, don't you think? This one was an overwhelming favorite--Miranda and Michaela and Nichole were all wishing for a bowl of green chile stew. We've been hoarding those New Mexican via Whole Foods chiles from Matt and Heather in the freezer, and ...

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pear and cheese

I'm not cooking today.I've been thinking about damp gingerbread with pears all week, thinking that that would be the dish I brought to fall fest. I made it last year just about this time, but some things just bear talking about twice, don't you think?All week, I keep coming across the most ...

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Indian lentil soup with spinach, and a flatbread from my favorite food blogger

On second thought, (as I do have my own ways of dancing around the issue) and although yes, yes, spinach is entirely conversation worthy on these crisp cuspy equinitox-ical days, really I'm just thinking about Laurie Colwin.Oh Laurie Colwin, the voice that whispers between my heart and my belly. ...

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wild rice and leek soup

Lately, dinnertime has been a little, well I don't know- let's see how I could frame it. It's all in the way you look at at, right? Lately, dinner time has been a little...loud.....tear-filled......almost humorous (and I say almost!) in the regularity of the crying......challenging........did I say ...

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