![]() ![]() A lovely thing about having a 16 year-old for a cooking blog, however, is that even poorly-timed arrivals tend to find their rightful place in the archives. What could be more perfect for a week that contained both Easter and Passover, while also saving so many people the work of having to adapt a gluten- or dairy-full cake to not include them? Nothing! But I was unraveled by dual forces: first, some confusion about whether or not baking powder, a leavener, is allowed on Passover, a holiday that prohibits leavened breads and also by our own Seder preparations. I’d intended to share this a week ago and - hubris alert! - I was patting myself on my back for my own cleverness, the first sign things are going to head south. I realize that sharing a new recipe for a carrot cake the day after Easter is about as useful as a new latke recipe the day after Hanukkah ends or a perfect buche de noel on December 26th. Read more » JJby deb 64 Comments Breakfast, Eggs, Lunch, Quick, Recipe, Sandwich, Vegetarian I have finally accepted that the only way to move on, at least for long enough that I could tackle the rest of the amazing things I have on our cooking agenda for the summer, was to exorcise it, whether anyone cares to join in my strange little preoccupation or not. I decided to keep this weirdo thing myself but then I returned from California and yes, I had a suitcase full of Model Bakery english muffins and a stash of Dandelion Chocolate hot chocolate mix, and I still just needed this. I could walk by a bagel shop wafting with warm everything seeds, by a cloud of bodega bacon egg and cheese sandwiches, and still beeline home to put a cold boiled egg on a roll with arugula. Sometimes it was breakfast sometimes it was lunch. For the three weeks before I was briefly in San Francisco and Napa last week, I was absolutely fixated on this sandwich. Or, I’m really obsessed with eating something that I don’t expect to interest anyone but me. When things are quiet around here, one of two things are usually happening: I’m busy with a side project or traveling far from the physical Smitten Kitchen. Read more » JJby deb 64 Comments Gluten-Free, Peas, Recipe, Salad, Summer, Vegetarian Fortunately, the photos I refresh, refresh on the camp app all day - in lieu of doing anything more productive or even hedonistic with my time - show them to be having a blast and how could they not be when the first night ended with whipped cream pies in the faces of the counselors on the losing team and nobody challenges their palates beyond pizza, chicken nuggets, and waffles? ![]() ![]() This summer, despite the fact that she’s a baby who was just born (don’t tell me otherwise), my daughter also wanted to go to camp, mostly because she wants to be wherever her brother is and I’m not crying, you are. Last summer, I ran out of cooking steam while waiting for my daughter to request anything but noodles for dinner. ![]() I learned a few years ago when my son went to camp for the first time that I become unmoored - who am I if nobody demands things and interrupts my thoughts all day?! - without the presence of my adorable but exhausting offspring. A little catch-up: Two days ago, our kids boarded a bus to sleepaway camp while dozens of parents waved like (I’d like to think adorable but also value self-awareness) lunatics as it pulled away. ![]()
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