December at G3: Deals, Discounts, Dining Out on a Budget, and More

Well, we made it: a post everyday in November. I was skeptical, but we did it. [Raise glasses, *clink*!] Thanks to my fellow bloggers and to you all who checked in on our progress. Even though challenges such as NaBloPoMo are a bit of a contrivance, I have found that they do put into place [...]

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Learning to Love Breakfast

One of the things I enjoy most about long weekends is the opportunity to enjoy breakfast in a big way.  I came to the pleasures of breakfast late in life.  For a good part of my adulthood, I was a lifestyle academic and that meant long nights of reading and correcting papers, going to bars [...]

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Shana’s Mom’s Noodle Kugel

The prodigious amounts of leftovers from our Thanksgiving feast are tucked away in many (dozens?) of tupperware containers or wrapped in various layers of foil and plastic. I indulged with such abandon yesterday that today I wasn’t even tempted by the possibilities of turkey sandwiches or any creative way to use up what remains. I [...]

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Thanksgiving

November, 1620 But here I cannot but stay and make a pause, and stand-half amased at this poore peoples presente condition; and so I thinke will the reader too, when he well considers the same. Being thus passed the vast ocean, and a sea of troubles before in their preparation (as may be remembred by [...]

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Last Minute Brussels Sprouts

It’s Thanksgiving Eve and I’m back in my hometown. I walked in the door with armfuls of groceries, including big stalks of Brussels sprouts. My father screwed up his face in a “I hate those things” expression and my mom exclaimed “I’ve never seen how Brussels sprouts grow! How unusual!” So I’m dealing with some [...]

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Roasted Romanescu

Or, What Do You Do With This Thing? The wikapedia entry reads a bit like poetry at times — “the inflorescence has an approximate fractal character, with the branched meristems making a logarithmic spiral” — but a sort of scientific poetry that I don’t normally associate with the food on my table. My first memory [...]

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Time for Chili

One of the ways that my brother and I used to weather the boring moments of childhood was–I wish I were joking–to practice telekinesis. (I wonder, do children these days have boring moments? Do they bide the time doing similarly weird shit? Discuss.) We’d be sitting at a relative’s house, or at a restaurant, and [...]

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Putting Down Roots

As most of you know, it’s getting pretty darn cold around here.  There’s no more flirtation with Indian Summer, no thinking that we’ll have some more long, warm afternoons to clean up the garden, maybe sit on the deck with a cup of tea, play some ball with the kids.  It’s all mittens and hats, [...]

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Late November Weekend Inspiration

Here are some things that are inspiring me this weekend: Enjoying reading the special food issue of the New Yorker (11/24/2008) and Jamie Oliver’s new cookbook Making and eating these molasses-chocolate-ginger cookies Gearing up to make Texas Beef Brisket Chili I can’t seem to stop listening to this song as I work in the kitchen [...]

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A Trio of Thanksgiving Menus

It’s the weekend before Thanksgiving and good, well-organized cooks everywhere have planned their menus, assembled their shopping lists and are about to embark upon an epic cooking adventure. And then there are the rest of us. Well, actually, and then there’s me.  About half the time I’m a good cook(the other half I would say [...]

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