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Gingered Indian Salmon, the easy way

September 16, 2010

This recipe utilizes one of my favorite kitchen cheats, er, techniques- the marinade and the sauce are one and the same, applied differently. Essentially you put some a couple seasonings in a food processor with some yogurt and use half of the mixture for the marinade while reserving half for the sauce. The salmon cooks [...]

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Auntie Karen’s bison experiment

September 10, 2010

Another not-so-secret trick from Auntie Karen: We already know about getting produce from a CSA (don’t we?). Did you know meat can be delivered, too? Say what? Yes, I just got these Italian bison sausages in the mail, and made them for Sunday breakfast. Bison is very lean, but instead of adding more animal fat [...]

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Auntie Karen’s Crock Pot Pulled Pork

August 23, 2010

Our good friend Karen is amazing in the kitchen. When she invites you over for a fabulous dinner party, you don’t want to miss it. She assures us that she also can cook a quick dinner using regular-person ingredients. We put her to the test and asked her for four terrific, easy-enough-for-a-rookie-mom recipes to share [...]

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Fashion Don’t: Fake High Heel Shoes For Babies

July 2, 2008

I have a very long and diverse list of blogs I slog through each morning looking for content, so I see strange unholy things on the internet all the time. However, this is the only thing in recent memory that actually, literally, made me gasp aloud in horror. These are soft faux leopard-print high heels [...]

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Say Thank You in Style

January 16, 2008

The Little Author will make professional note cards out of your kid’s artwork. You can scan artwork that’s up to 11×17 inches, which they will shrink down for you, and you can enter whatever text you want. Of course, they come with matching envelopes. I would be dead impressed if I went to a kid’s [...]

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Make your own play-dough

January 7, 2008

I don’t know if you’ve had the opportunity to work with Play-Doh lately, but my niece Mitra loooooves the stuff so I get to play with it all the time. It comes in all kinds of crazy colors these days- you can actually buy a pack that claims to have 50 different colors! Oh, and [...]

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Auntie Karen’s guide of potentially impractical but completely fabulous gifts for families

November 23, 2007

The Baby Since I always think about how people can let a baby be a baby while not completely babyfying their home, I have some suggestions that are win-win for babies and parents. These alphabet letter magnets, decoupaged with stylish origami paper, are only $20/set from Etsy – so you can teach your child about [...]

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Gift Idea: Keep your cheesiness to yourself

November 18, 2007

I stumbled on something else that might make a cool gift for a parent. I used to sell these silver necklaces at my store: they had two different origami papers on each side, so it was like two necklaces in one, depending which side you wore. The ones I sold had a monkey on one [...]

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Remind Yourself That You’re A Great Parent

October 16, 2007

I proffer two examples to remind you that in the parenting pantheon, you are a great parent! I am, of course, assuming that it wasn’t you who ordered this rather ill-advised “Grand Theft Auto” cake for a 4th birthday… Nor buy your child this toy gun with a whistle on the barrel, which encourages him [...]

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Spell Out Allergies Loud And Clear

September 30, 2007

These allergy alert labels let everyone know what allergies they should be aware of. I would appreciate this, especially when kids are in a group setting. A lot of the young tykes in my life have long and ever-changing lists of allergies and it’s hard to keep up with all of them! They’re really pricey [...]

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