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how-to lists make me crazy

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Does anyone else get tired of lists? You know, the way that you get tired of zucchini at the end of summer? Read the full post

I’m in a great mood. I got 7 hours of sleep last night, started my morning with yoga, some personal reading, got ready for the day, all before the kids were up. Getting some time in before the day really starts rolling is a wonderful thing.

Here are a few things I’ve been wanting to share with you.

♥ Have you ever had reality fall short of your expectations? My college girlfriend, Elise, share’s a hilarious experience about trying to duplicate one of Bakerella‘s recipes for her daughter’s birthday. If you want a good laugh, you must read.

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Vegan Sour Cream // Black Bean Peasant Stew // Cashew Corn Squares

main dish, dessert & bread

Another argument I have with serious food people is that they’re always talking about how creative cooking is. “Cooking is very creative” is how they put it. Now, there’s no question that there are a handful of people doing genuinely creative things with food–although a lot of it, if you ask me, seems to consist of heating up goat cheese or throwing strawberry vinegar onto calves’ liver or relying excessively on the kiwi. But most cooking is based on elementary, long-standing principles, and to say that cooking is creative not only misses the point of creativity–which is that it is painful and difficult & quite unrelated to whether it is possible to come up with yet another way to cook a pork chop–but also misses the whole point of cooking, which is that it is totally...