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Mia

Interests: Food, art, film, fashion, politics, nature, music, parenting, books, and the environment comprise the daily discourse of this wanton blog. Beholden to none but that which catches my eye, I sift through the flotsam for a daily global gulp of interest.

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Tokyo Fish Market

Surrounded by amazing food year-round, the Bay Area can be a bit spendy depending where you shop. Wild salmon is in season and I was determined to try the following recipe from the SF Chronicle. I can buy incredible salmon... Continue reading

Posted 3 days ago at Bluebird

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A scrapper of a girl...

I am not the gym-joining type. Like organized team sports, they have always intimidated me. Blame it on growing up in a family of nine kids where the front yard was for touch football or frisbee, the half-court driveway for... Continue reading

Posted 7 days ago at Bluebird

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Why is Mother's Day all about breakfast in bed?

Dessert is way mo better...specially when it's lemon cake with lemon cream and strawberries.... Continue reading

Posted May 12, 2013 at Bluebird

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Chili con Carne, Standarized Testing and Love

California public schools demand crazy nonstop testing, ie CST's, an annual week-long torture that negates the value of individual achievement. Trying uber hard to help our niblits achieve the required scores, however lemming-like, while remaining true to our subversive arty... Continue reading

Posted May 9, 2013 at Bluebird

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Delicious Cookie Dough - both raw and baked

This recipe is really very good, but it's hard to choose as our all-time favorite. Short of having a bake-off, it's almost impossible not to love any cookie warm from the oven, especially when Tcho chocolate discs are in the... Continue reading

Posted Apr 26, 2013 at Bluebird

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When in doubt, she cooks...

I hope the blogger and the NY Times I stole these images and recipes from forgive me, but with the recent Boston Massacre I needed to deal with it all somehow...so I cooked and baked my way towards processing the... Continue reading

Posted Apr 16, 2013 at Bluebird

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Unruliness in the Kitchen

Most everyone has a messy kitchen drawer. I have at least three, but they are semi-categorized. This is my baking drawer. It may look haphazard, but I know exactly what's inside, even if I have lost sight of my half... Continue reading

Posted Apr 5, 2013 at Bluebird

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Spring Break Puzzle

It was a somewhat subdued spring break this year. My mother came to visit to escape Wisconsin's wintery last gasp. We didn't go anywhere except to my brother's for Easter in Sacramento. Last week we started a terribly difficult jigsaw... Continue reading

Posted Apr 1, 2013 at Bluebird

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Apropos of nothing but a Dream State

Random Quotes of Fiction.... Overheard on BART: "He's turning 22 the same day I turn 29 forever." Overheard in Safeway: "Isn't there a movie called The Story of Gravy?" "I never heard of it. What's it about?" "Six degrees of... Continue reading

Posted Mar 30, 2013 at Bluebird

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We did. We're rationing it every evening. Thanks so much for sharing. Hope you had a nice time down the coast!

Commented Mar 11, 2013 on When she made too much for dinner at Bluebird

When she made too much for dinner

The dinner plan called for lamb chops, garlic mashers and fresh asparagus, but when I spotted fresh hoppers, pink shrimp that had not been frozen, I jumped. Sweet and yum, really fresh shrimp are not to be missed. It was... Continue reading

Posted Mar 10, 2013 at Bluebird

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Tapioca always makes me teary...

My mother just despised it. Dad said it was because they used to call it fish eyes and she couldn't get past the thought of that. But we loved it, him and I. Bonded by a love for a lumpy... Continue reading

Posted Feb 26, 2013 at Bluebird

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Peas and Pasta = Simple Supper

Je t'aime good frozen peas, especially on a Monday...I can make a whole meal around good peas, in fact. I love to make the vegetable more central, even when not fresh. We love the C & W brand of the... Continue reading

Posted Feb 25, 2013 at Bluebird

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When they came to curry

Oona had a project for World History last week, her topic was the spices of the subcontinent of India. She made a poster showing a map with pix of each region's spices, wrote an essay detailing it and pinned bags... Continue reading

Posted Feb 24, 2013 at Bluebird

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The Beets Go On

Lately it's those lavish vegetable type of dishes that seduce me, especially with the meat served as the side. A typical St. Valentine dinner for us is drenched in rosy yummy hues, hence the beets and mildly rare rib eyes... Continue reading

Posted Feb 14, 2013 at Bluebird

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Thanks for visiting!

Commented Feb 13, 2013 on If chickens could talk they'd tell me that they hate me... at Bluebird

Come and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree...

A plethora of lemons requires action, as they do not last forever. It's especially urgent when one's been gifted with Meyer lemons. What to do but make some lemon bars? Next, where to source the recipe? I found a good... Continue reading

Posted Feb 1, 2013 at Bluebird

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Once Upon the Tiny Ears and Tuscan Kale

What else do I like to do except cook and eat really good homemade food...hence my constant culpa, whatever is for dinner, captured in such obsessive detail it probably irritates more than not. At any rate, tonight I made orecchiette... Continue reading

Posted Jan 23, 2013 at Bluebird

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A smoke signal sent afar...

My sister lives way north of me, which means a lot, growing up in a family of eight siblings and flung so far afield from home. As such, she's long been my western neighbor and northern-most, if not always geo-graphically... Continue reading

Posted Jan 13, 2013 at Bluebird

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I like it too! Thanks for sharing...

Commented Jan 12, 2013 on The High Low | Levi’s Sta-Prest Chinos MEN'S... at Bluebird

First Pie of the New Year

Nora Ephron didn't believe in making homemade pie crust, so when she died a few months back I bought some pre-made from Trader Joe's in an admittedly ineffectual homage to her. Sadly, the one I thawed today broke apart but... Continue reading

Posted Jan 1, 2013 at Bluebird

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'Cause Mama's Little Babies just love It...

Homemade brown sugar shortbread...this family just adores it. Brown sugar shortbread Total time: 50 minutes, plus chilling and cooling time Servings: 4 dozen bars or 2 dozen wedge cookies Note: This recipe makes enough dough for 2 pans of cookies,... Continue reading

Posted Dec 21, 2012 at Bluebird

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Thank you!

Commented Dec 19, 2012 on Logos-a-go-go at Bluebird

Monday Night Chicken

It's uber cold here in Oakland, so yesterday I roasted a chicken to warm up the house. Basted in a seductive bath of melted butter and soy sauce, it came out a most delicious state of bronze. But the chicken... Continue reading

Posted Dec 18, 2012 at Bluebird

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Not my Dad's eggnog...but pretty good

This time of year, my dad usually made eggnog. I don't remember my mother ever having it, but she maybe didn't like it, which is why he was the one who made it. He separated and whipped the eggs into... Continue reading

Posted Dec 16, 2012 at Bluebird

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