All Sorts of Celebration

Sometime in the afternoon of Christmas Eve, the streets begin to empty, the stores shut down, the lights go on in houses, and we are in the quiet of Christmas week.  I love this point in the holidays, when silence falls upon the town and the hustle and bustle fall away. We snuggle, we settle [...]

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Scramble: Just Like Grandma Used to Make

Um, I don’t know if anyone’s noticed, but baby, well, it’s cold outside. Like snow day cold, like kerchief and cap and long winter’s nap cold, like the dog looks offended when I suggest that he go out cold, like effing cold.
So, I’m settling in. My slippers are in constant use. I’m breaking out some [...]

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G3 Gift Idea: Holiday Reminder

So I had ideas for a lot of different posts this weekend. But after two days of non-stop holiday preparations of one sort of another, my brain and my typing fingers are way tired. So, before I go off to sip wine in front of the Christmas tree (while I enter the expenses in Quicken [...]

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(Not) Thinking About Horseradish Pot Roast

I’m pretty sure that there is a part of my brain–let’s call it the gastronomic lobe (GL)–that does nothing but think about what I’m going to eat next (and after that, and after that, and . . . ). No matter what else I’m doing — driving a car, kickboxing, talking to the boyfriend, publishing [...]

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G3 Gift Idea (sort of): Coping With The Problem of Giving

So, first, a confession. I am notoriously lax about charitable giving. Like, way too lax for my current income level and social ideals.  This is one part residual poverty mentality from many years of graduate school, temp jobs and single-woman-with-an-Ann-Arbor-mortgage-hood, one part inertia and many many parts over-thinking. Have I mentioned my tendency to over-think?  [...]

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G3 Holiday Gift Idea: Nourishing Notes by Letterform

I am still swooning. At the Shadow Art Fair this weekend, we came across these lovely and inspired letterpress cards from Letterform, a graphic design studio with deep roots in Ann Arbor. When they’re not making greeting cards with foodalicious puns like “Shanks, Shanks a Lot” and “Whisking You a Happy Birthday,” Andy and Julie, [...]

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G3 Holiday Gift Idea: 20% Off at Zingerman’s Mail Order

One of my favorite procrastination techniques is to start on another, preferably food-related project, in order to put off whatever it is I’m really supposed to be doing. This weekend, I should really be focused on my own holiday gift shopping. Instead, I’m hanging out at my friend’s place, eating leftover noodle kugel, drinking coffee, [...]

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My Pre-Thanksgiving Celebration in NYC

It has been a hectic couple of weeks between the NYC trip and Thanksgiving festivities, but I did want to report back on the pre-thanksgiving dinner I cooked in NYC (as described in Maria’s post, “A Trio of Thanksgiving Menus”).  I did indeed cook squabs, which I ordered fresh from Florence Meat Market on Jones [...]

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Gone West

A lot of work; a little play.

Good coffee, good vibe, grey weather.  Maple donuts with bacon on top.

Did I mention good coffee?  Back to Ann Arbor in mind, body and blog, soon.

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