Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2011.
Here’s something you may not know about me: I’m a crazy, smothery, smoochy, obsessed aunt. My niece Sofia just turned one, and from the moment the party planning began I kept trying to figure out a way to sneak some of my baking into the day. It’s not that I wanted to crash the party [...]
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Posted on Thursday, August 18, 2011.
For 29 years, I haven’t known what to do with artichokes. This is embarrassing, considering I spent my childhood hooked on them. I’d fight my brothers for the stems when my mom cooked them; invent new methods for peeling the meat off the leaves so I could brag to my cousins—it was always a secret, [...]
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Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2011.
I’ve told you about The Owl’s Nest and I’ve told you about my husband’s ridiculous improv cooking skills. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that when you put them together, amazing things happen. The only way to cook at the Owl is to put food over fire. I guess you could boil things too, but [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, August 3, 2011.
I’ve been thinking of all the ways I’d tell you about The Owl’s Nest, but every time I start it doesn’t give it justice. So I figured I’d just take you there. Imagine a place in the woods where time stands still. Once you arrive you lose all sense of when you got there, [...]
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