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Homemade Dinners For Past-Due Holidays and Compromised Circumstances

By allison | Published: August 18, 2009
Last week I conjured up a four course meal for my brother and his wife as a delayed Christmas present. They’d already drank their special red wine I bought especially for the meal (from Italian Wine Merchants), but had only used half the bottle of exquisite extra virgin olive oil. The can of oil packed [...]
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Bread As A Method Of Delivery

By allison | Published: June 17, 2009
My mind cycles thinking about what I would like for dinner on nights when I have a single vegetable in the fridge. A half eaten container of yogurt won’t feed these brain cells right now. In a city where you don’t know the ins and outs of, you tend to assume you’ve had all that [...]
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On How To Treat Yourself Special, And Why You Should Never Not Be Doing That

By allison | Published: June 13, 2009
My mom finished an email to me this week with “try and do something special for yourself.” She doesn’t know I’m usually doing relatively special things for myself. Getting up fifteen minutes early to solidify a pleasant and calm morning. Dressing myself up pretty to lift my spirits. Eating a container of Greek yogurt with [...]
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The Story Behind “not enough spoons”

By allison | Published: June 1, 2009
No matter how many times you wash your silverware by hand, or run your dishwasher, don’t you ever feel like you’re constantly running out of something? You’re craving a bowl of ice cream, some yogurt and honey, and reach into the long wide drawer, without even looking you feel yourself around inside, responding to the [...]
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I Got A Hand, Sometime It Makes Things

By allison | Published: May 27, 2009
It’s hard for me to remember the first time I ever had gnocchi. Of all the fresh pastas, it’s one of the easiest to make from scratch, only requiring potatoes, flour, eggs, water, and a pair of hands. And preferably acceptable meteorological conditions. But when you want it so bad, even just to make yourself [...]
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