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Quarantining with kids

Quarantining with kids

I imagine many of you are heading into Monday with a sense of dread. Social distancing’s “flatten the curve” imperative needs to be followed by all of us, in order to avoid the tragedy that the graph above projects. We are doing our part and…


A Love Letter to All the Moms in My Life

A Love Letter to All the Moms in My Life

A love Letter to all the Moms in my life I have a lot of moms in my life that I wish well today. To the moms right now who are juggling work inside and outside the house, I wish you some solitude, good food…


Roti Canai

Roti Canai

Waking up these days just feels like Groundhog Day, except the scene we’re reliving is actually from Home Alone where Daniel Stern gets nailed in the face with an iron. Every day I wake later than I should, clearly trying to sleep away the depression,…


Tandoori Salmon

Tandoori Salmon

Tandoori Salmon A few months ago my seven-year old got it in his head that he’d make us salmon for dinner. I prefer white fish if I have the choice, but I figured salmon would be pretty forgiving to his tornado-like tendencies in the kitchen.…


Holi Hai!

Holi Hai!

Holi Hai! If any day now gives me serious nostalgia for Bombay, it’s Holi–the onset of Spring, meant to symbolize rebirth, new beginnings, and, literally, the harvest. D’s first time visiting Bombay happened to coincide with Holi one year and he got a small taste…


Pink Pangea: The Women’s Writing Retreat That Saved My Life

Pink Pangea: The Women’s Writing Retreat That Saved My Life

By last October, I was barely holding it together. I was showing up a day early or an afternoon late for birthday parties, mistaking lotion for shampoo, severely underestimating how long I had to get to airports before flights for work… the works. I knew…


Et Sorores: Asparagus, Mushroom and Goat Cheese Pasta

Et Sorores: Asparagus, Mushroom and Goat Cheese Pasta

I’ve been thinking a great deal lately about what it means when women help women. Watching Warren interrupt and defend Klobuchar in the Democratic primary debate the other night brought into stark focus how raw and personal it feels to watch another woman be humiliated in public.


Easy Bread

Easy Bread

I call this bread Easy Bread precisely because it is just that–the easiest damn recipe you’ll ever happen upon… if you have time and lots of it. We’re talking 21 hours


‘Fraid o’Mom’

‘Fraid o’Mom’

In the run up to the Oscars this weekend, ABC and the Oscars rejected an ad from airing during the awards show.


Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup

Weekly roundup The Resurrection This week I… Googled “restoring faith in humanity” and enjoyed this feed. Remembered this post which reminds me to put myself in the shoes of our little terrorists some more. Started this recipe with D—it’ll finish up this weekend and we’ll…