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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

Corn Chowder

Posted January 05, 2009
As far as children are concerned, corn is less a vegetable than a kind of honorary pasta: its only real flavor is a kind of bland, Frito-y sweetness, and it also benefits from summery associations with picnic tables, long, late twilights, and dripping butter. Which is why, on a winter Sunday evening like this, when it's cold and dark and Birdy has one of those cases of pink-eye that wakes her with a crusted-over blindness and a dread of the… Read More
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Egg Noodles with Ham and Peas

Posted December 29, 2008
I know that all you really want at this point is a recipe for a nice cold glass of seltzer. Believe me-I hear you. I'm like the Smurf balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, only what came out of the helium tank was actually mashed potatoes and linzer cookies and Prosecco. And yet the children still expect to be fed! It's baffling. I want to say: My God, kids, haven't you eaten enough? And yet, strangely, their bodies do not… Read More
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Maple Snow Taffy

Posted December 20, 2008
To quote Christina Rossetti via Shawn Colvin: "Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow on snow..." In fact it is snowing still, snowing cats and dogs- very quiet cats and dogs. I look out the window, and snow is dumping torrentially out of the sky, utterly noiselessly. Don't you love that?

And so the kids have a snow day-on the one single day of the year when they didn't even want one, this last day before the holidays,… Read More
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Dinner Beans

Posted December 15, 2008
Canned beans-is this festive or what?! Are you with me here, O holiday revelers?

No?

Okay. I understand. But here's why I'm posting such an ordinary recipe this week: I keep finding that my merry holiday spirit includes many things-the playing of Frank Sinatra records, the cracking of nuts, the recycling of Salvation Army sweaters into lumpy, oddly appealing gifts, the admiring of the tree from the coziness of piled-up kids and blankets on the couch-but one… Read More
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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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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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