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How is it that babies' heads smell so exquisite and intoxiciating? It is so curious-there is nothing in the world that smells quite like Baby Head: a little, perhaps, like vanilla cookies, but also like spring and sweetness and just total Yum. It reminds me of the novel Perfume, in which the main character, who posesses a preternatural sense of ( Read more... )

Lately, I've become somewhat obsessed with making a few dishes again and again. Maple-roasted winter squash (especially Delicata, Queen of Squashes), handcut oven fries with skins on, potato-leek gratin, really simple green salads. Here is a lentil dish I've been perfecting. I recently discovered French green lentils (or Puy lentil, I think they ( Read more... )

But I can't. so here is a cute picture of me and Rowan...


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Not really sure where to start... everything is transformed. But I want community again, especially now that my days are spent so close to home with Baby. I'll write more later, but just wanted to post very briefly to say that I am back ( Read more... )

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Oh wait, I DID bake a cake! And two pies, and Deconstructed Gingerbread Men, and several other sweet and savory treats.


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So many nice things have happened to me recently, and only one that was nasty. As the nasty one was work-related, computery, and utterly boring, I won't write about it here. I will say only that color management makes my head go explodey. But here are the nice things in roughly reverse chronological order ( Read more... )