Sitting at my dining room table with my pile of cookbooks, I make the menu for the coming week. My mind is racing, there's work, deadlines, tonight's dinner, (...)
Trust and patience in making sausage vegetable bake
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Work deadlines, 45 minute tantrums, a botched recipe, piles of mail to go through. Balancing self-care and being present with the ones I love. Otherwise called (...)
Secrets to fostering good eating habits in children
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I am very excited to share a guest post I have written for Janet Lansbury's wonderful, inspirational blog.All (or nearly ;-)) my secrets to enjoying meals with (...)
I've made this analogy here before, but I often think of parenting as blindly planting wild seeds in a garden, and waiting to see how and when they will grow (...)
I had a lovely Mother's day spent mostly between the kitchen and the table. Even though I was exhausted by the end of the day, I wouldn't have it any other (...)
Food is so many things. It is nourishment. It is connection with others, with the earth, with our bodies. And food is childhood. Deep in the learning curve of (...)
So there's this French saying. It was the title of a comedy. La vie n'est pas un long fleuve tranquille. Life is not a long tranquil river.Indeed.Sometimes, we (...)
Coconut rosemary carrots and lamb chops for a quiet day
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A strange afternoon. A few quiet hours. The house is silent, and yet loud by what it’s missing: the hustle-bustle of the playing toddler, playing and busying (...)
Roasted capon with chestnut apple sage stuffing and celeriac puree
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Concluding this week's holiday recipe marathon, after some holiday hors d'œuvres, a sunchoke chestnut vanilla soup, a first course of scallops and avocado (...)
Duck and braised radishes for easy transformation and change
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This past week has felt about loss and burden. Being on the other side of it, perhaps makes it easier to talk about.As I mentioned before, we are moving in a (...)
Christmas Eve is less than a week away, and I have quite a few holiday recipes to share and so little time to do so! Finally done with work, I can fully (...)
Working with what you've got. And marvel at the beauty of simple things. Two lessons that apply to life and to cooking. Never before had I realized the many (...)
Polenta-crusted lamb chops recipe for delicious and bright meals
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I am a big fan of Dr Dan Siegel when it comes to child psychology. His book, Parenting from the Inside Out, was the first parenting book I read (before I got (...)
One of the most crucial gifts parenting has given me, is a profound respect for the process. My son’s process. Other people’s process. My own. How did I miss (...)
Appreciating normandy and cooking authentic sea bass on the grill
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We have just spent a week in the countryside in Normandy (the southern part, near Caen), cooking,eating lots of good yogurt, strong cheese, gorgeous cream and (...)
