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Live Thanksgiving Broadcast #2
[Note: After posting this, I figure you may want some explanation as to who everyone is: are you ready? First you’ll see my mom and dad, then you’ll see the Johnson family–that’s my brother’s girlfriend Tali’s family–her father, Craig, her sister Mia and poking around there my grandmother (my mom’s mom); in the next room…
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Live Thanksgiving Broadcast #1
Thanksgiving; 12:29 PM. (Recorded at 11:33) https://youtu.be/FEeHgREiTzQ
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Thanksgiving Status Report
I’m not sure what I’m more stressed about: cooking this dinner for sixteen people or writing this post! There’s a lot to talk about so I’m just going to shoot this out like an email and hope for the best… are you ready? Here we go…
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Welcome Home Pie
HIs favorite dessert is cooling on the counter (for the record: apple) while he rides a taxi back from the airport. Craig’s been gone for two and a half months shooting his movie and tonight he returns. If the blog goes neglected for the next 48 hours, you’ll understand why: we have to hunt down…
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If you live in Seattle…
…you can have Craig’s sister, Kristin, as a waitress. Go visit her at her restaurant, The Fremont Classic, and tell her I sent you. This is her waiting on us last week:…you can also be in Craig’s movie! If you want to be an extra, send an e-mail to info@trueadolescents.com with a brief physical description,…
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Happy Trails
Yee-haw: that’s me, Molly and Kristin (Craig’s sister) on horseback at the top of Tiger Mountain. We went horseback riding yesterday (both Molly and Kristin have experience with horses; I don’t–which made trotting very painful) and it’s the best $60 I’ve spent in a long time. I’m heading back to New York tomorrow so until…
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Into The Pages of Gourmet Magazine, A Summer Dinner Party Spectacular
I recall a movie from my childhood–“The Peanut Butter Solution”–at the end of which a young boy whose hair has fallen out (I don’t exactly remember why) enters a room filled with magical, sparkly, landscape paintings. The paintings, you soon learn, are enterable: whichever one he picks, he can walk into. And I felt like…
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An Impromptu Food Blogger Meet-Up
Fate must be a fan of food blogs. It just so happens that my arrival in Seattle coincided with the arrival of David Lebovitz who you may recognize from the lyrics to a pretty brilliant song. The Seattle food blog militia got together and planned a dinner in my honor (David doesn’t have any honor)…
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Runaway Caramel Chocolate Shortbread
As mentioned in my Ferry Building post, the good people of La Cocina provided me with a package of Clare Squares (chocolate/caramel shortbread) to take back to New York. Strangely enough, though, as I packed up to leave Raife and Tohva’s apartment I found a note stuck to my computer:Suspiciously, there were crumbs and an…
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Once Upon A Sausage: Lunch with Elise & The Serious Eats Team at Biricchino
Elise Bauer of Simply Recipes has been reading this blog from the very beginning. She championed me on her site, way back when, and the hits came pouring in. Ever since, I’ve considered her this blog’s favorite aunt. And yet she’s been an estranged aunt: until last week, I’d never met her. But then she…
