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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

Warm and Smoky Potato Salad

Posted July 25, 2009
We interrupt this quinoa special with a word from our sponsor, The Bacon Lady. I know, it's a little helter-skelter, this food column, what with a recipe for bran timbales one week and marshmallow-Cheezit balls the next, but that's a little bit how it is around here. And bacon? Well. I'm sure I don't need to go on and on about bacon's charisma and magnetism. Either you eat bacon, and understand this perfectly well, or you don't eat bacon but… Read More
5 people found this post helpful 9 Comments

Make Your Own (Quinoa!) Sundaes

Posted July 16, 2009
I understand that I'm about to lose a lot of you here, and that I risk compromising my integrity as a peddler of kid-friendly meals and becoming the kind of cultish health fascist who would suddenly foist upon you QUINOA! THE SUPERFOOD OF THE ANDES! I know. Let me start by telling you that it's pronounced keen-wa, just so that you don't end up in Whole Foods insisting to the eye-rolling hippy supermodel of a floor manager that what you… Read More
8 people found this post helpful 11 Comments

Mango Fro-yo Pops

Posted July 07, 2009
My friend Kathleen laughed at me last night when I asked if I could post a photo of her daughter here. "You're putting up a recipe for popsicles? I don't know that anyone really needs a recipe for that." Oh but they do. I mean, obviously you can just pour grape juice or lemonade into your popsicle molds, and your kids will ooh and aah and be thrilled. You could freeze bong water, and as long as there was a… Read More
6 people found this post helpful 4 Comments

Asian-style Chicken Salad

Posted June 29, 2009
This is the time of year when people who don't do Community Supported Agriculture--aka a "farm share"--are laughing all the way to the Farmer's Market or grocery store. It's late June, you think to yourself. What does our family like to eat? You might choose a lovely quart of strawberries, a dinner's worth of sugar snap peas, and a sweet little head of butter lettuce, and tote it all happily back to your dinner table, confident in the meal you… Read More
7 people found this post helpful 6 Comments

Best Buttermilk Dressing

Posted June 22, 2009
When it comes to salad dressing, the world really splits into people who have worked food service jobs and people who haven't. So, for example, if you have ever scrubbed dishes in a restaurant kitchen or prepped for the dinner rush work or balanced a dozen salads on a tray in a crowded café, then a whiff of ranch dressing is like Proust's madeleines: it will instantly catapult you into that time in your life when salad dressing left greasy… Read More
8 people found this post helpful 8 Comments

Donut Cake

Posted June 15, 2009
Maybe it's really just frosting I don't like, which is nuts. Even a frosting-shunner like me can see how crazy that is. Frosting! Who doesn't like frosting but a grayly parched crone in a gloomy, turreted house, the one who gives neighbor kids the evil eye while she's outside calling to her dozens of many-toed cats? I know. Believe me. But I tend to think it's desserts altogether I don't like, but then I go completely wild for plain cake.… Read More
11 people found this post helpful 18 Comments
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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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