When I considered starting Life as we Cook it, I gave a lot of thought to the kind of recipes I would be posting, and the type of writing that I would attach to them. I briefly considered keeping it black and white: this is the food I cook, this is why, this is how…
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Triple Sesame Cookies
There are a lot of reasons why I haven’t been blogging: we traveled as a family and I need time to mentally prepare and recover, I think I’m having a bit of a career crisis, and Reeve naps less and is go-go-go much more. But truthfully, it’s this: I became obsessed with perfecting one cookie…
Pumpkin Pecan Milk
This Pumpkin Pecan Milk is the answer to my 3pm slump. It’s too late to drink coffee, too tempting to drink hot chocolate and too not a good idea to eat a handful of chocolate chips. Having a jar of it ready in the fridge takes a bit of planning, but the creamy autumnal payoff is…
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Just waiting on that last piece of garlic so that we can get this pan in the oven. Thank goodness we don’t keep a clock in the dining room…and that this is tomorrow night’s dinner.
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You buy an organic butternut squash for your baby. You wash it. You use a brand new cutting board to quarter it. And then, your three-year-old needs to touch every piece while you try to take a picture.