Nava is 6 months old today. I’ve breastfed her approximately 1,800 times, she has consumed approximately 5,000 ounces – or 600 cups – or about one bathtub – of breastmilk from me, not including the 300+ ounces I’ve frozen. I’ve used nipple creams, breast gels, frozen cabbage leaves, and nipple shields. I’ve nursed through swollen, bleeding, and cracked …
At a workshop a few weeks ago, a woman asked the group of us to think about the strongest message we received about money when we were young and write it on a sticker. Below it, she said to write down the strongest message we received about “giving.” Then she blind-sided us and said we …
This year, I want to play the long game. Rosh HaShanah never really meant much to me. We didn’t celebrate it as a kid, and it wasn’t until I was 24 years old and living in Israel that I even discovered people had Rosh HaShanah seders. I was terrified at that table with Adam’s …
Everyone’s on a juice cleanse. I wanted to make a fruit salad this week because it’s fruit, and there’s no reason not to be accommodating (though I’d rather accommodate with real food than liquid). I thought about a Middle Eastern one with a rose water and honey syrup and some thick and creamy Greek …
Sometimes we all need something bright and sweet and comforting during a hectic week. I’ve been so busy lately that I’ve just been consuming a steady diet of Acme bread… bread with pickled onions, bread with avocado and sea salt, bread with mozarella and rosemary agave nectar. All you do is toss 2 sprigs …
I love group efforts. Whether it’s a fire engine barreling through a busy street after all the cars have dutifully moved aside or its a group of six people squished at a cafe table offering to share computer chargers just to make life easier, I get emotional. Sometimes I get a little weepy, but I’m …
Chances are you are terrified of making bread. And if you’re not, you are probably completely “over” the no-knead bread craze. I’m not over it. But I am kinda over the terror I feel every time I reach into a 500 degree oven to pull out my pot (see below), yet no where near over …
I know you probably thought that I was over you. That I had…given up. That suddenly we just…lost it. But, it’s not you, it’s me, really. Well, it’s not me, really, it’s my computer, and it’s my winter vacation. Fortunately for all of us, it’s also all the left-over/loser ingredients in my fridge before embarking …
I’ve been waiting till I thought you could think about food again. I hope you all had delicious Thanksgivings, ate over 3000 calories, and were shocked when you woke up hungry. This was one of the appetizers that I brought to our Thanksgiving dinner, and although not so much pull-apart ish as the first loaf …
Aunt Sarah: This posts’s for you. Over the weekend my aunt texted me to say that a local bakery had a killer pizza that day. As soon as I read the words “roasted fennel” and “balsamic vinegar” my tongue got all hot, my mouth suddenly felt parched and my peanut butter & jelly sandwich that …
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