after the 6 day ny fling�followed by�no less than 5 bowls of oatmeal in 3 days, it was time to cook something.� honestly, i could have gone longer but it’s�this csa issue that i deal with.� i�am beyond covered up with the last of the summer tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, peppers, zucchini’s and now winter squash […]

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if you’ve not been even an occasional reader here at ceF, let me just tell you that i am from new york city.� and that it is my city.� i own it.� yup.� it’s mine.� and i’m in love with my city and my city loves me back.� we speak the same language.� i understand�ny�in […]

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so you buy some homemade butternut squash ravioli – mine came from lazarolli’s in nashville.  boil them gently in salted water, careful not to burst the little pillows. and then you brown the butter.  and there is a technique here because believe me, i’ve blown it before… but i’ve found quite the description of how to go […]

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it was mediterranean night tonight.� the kids love all this kind of food.� and i gotta say, i love kids who love lamb.� i even love kids who’ll just eat lamb.� it makes their stock go up and well, anything helps when it comes to kids in my mostly�non-kid world… as a rule, lamb is […]

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cary loves pad thai.� a lot.� he loves pad thai so much that i can sometimes even bribe him with the promise of this dinner.� i’ve found that it is good to have�a dish�this adored�in your relationship arsenal, especially�when dealing with certain yard-work hating men. so early on in our relationship and before my blogging […]

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i try not to fret. but i do and it’s a long list why – some of which is ridiculously unfounded, some i’m sure comes from deeply ingrained childhood stuff (got an hour?) and some is just a part of living on this earth and being human. and well, obviously not a very good buddhist. […]

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it happened to me.� and now�i have lived to tell the tale of my web hosting server�going farther south than i already logistically am – and pretty much shutting my blog�down for awhile.� somehow the experience�was strangely interesting.��when the mystery of this sudden quasi crash was in full swing, i found myself�wondering if something fatal […]

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