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is making Gram's meatballs tonight? Me! Ha! You know all the other Cappo Gallos will love them. Thanks for the recipe, Tara! Love you and wish you were here to eat some too! ('Cause I'm making a...

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it's been a looooooooong time since we updated this here blog, huh? if anyone is still out there, thanks for hanging in. someday soon new posts will make their way from brain to page. until then,...

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From such humble beginnings...

comes such deliciousness! This recipe, for chunky lentil soup, from Heidi Swanson's beautiful Super Natural Cooking (a gift from my beloved Tara, of course) is one of my current faves. (Her website...

cheese, glorious cheese

i'm trying to give up cheese. it may seem odd that cheese is something i need to give up, but i LOVE cheese. maybe it's a holdover from my vegetarian days, or just the proven fact that cheese is...

oven-dried tomatoes

i am strangely fixated on heirloom tomatoes. well, i'm strangely fixated on a lot of things, but even i think it's weird to be obsessed with tomatoes. but i am. in the magazine version of my life,...

A few of my favorite things

When my husband and I moved into this house, the thing I was most excited about was having a dining room. One of our first purchases to fill the gaps created by moving a studio apartment's worth of...