Materfamilias Writes

And Food You Can’t Bring Home . . .

And Food You Can’t Bring Home . . .

 In yesterday’s post, I detailed the Fava Bean Saladthat we enjoyed several times in Bordeaux and will now be reproducing as closely as possible back home on our West Coast Island. But some foods enjoyed…

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Bringing the Holiday Home . . . To the Kitchen

Bringing the Holiday Home . . . To the Kitchen

While our vacation travels are often too busy to be relaxing, they do rejuvenate by interrupting routines, offering new perspectives. These perspectives often show up in small quotidian ways; I use my clothes dryer even…

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Che Bella…Puglia, Famiglia

Che Bella…Puglia, Famiglia

Last night, surrounded by lemon trees, the dusk snuggling in comfortably around us, we pulled white plastic chairs over a stone terrace to a long collection of white plastic tables, the ten of us claiming…

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How I Learned to Stop Grumbling and Love Cycling? Or something like that ….

How I Learned to Stop Grumbling and Love Cycling? Or something like that ….

It is entirely possible that despite my considerable quotidian practicality, I may also nurture a certain Romanticism. Such that, when I head off with the Love of my Life on an adventure that combines 50…

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Friday, Five Things Again

Friday, Five Things Again

1.  This morrel morel mushroom surprised me last Thursday, popping up just outside our garden gate. I did a bit of research to confirm that it was safely edible, and then picked it, popped it…

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