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Month: October 2017

When one of her first words is tofu…

When one of her first words is tofu…

I love food. I love cooking for my family and friends. I love talking about it, reading about it and writing about it. I love Indian food, deep dish pizza, long dinners at Michelin star restaurants and everything in between. Of course it is not sustainable to eat at French Laundry every day (tragic) so for me, the next best thing is preparing and eating (mostly) healthful, seasonal food.  I focus my cooking on a plant-based diet, avoiding red meat…

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Road trip!

Road trip!

       Kirsten and I made a cross country trek with our little man in June. One way included a dog as well – and not a little one.   The lead up to taking a foster kid on vacation, let alone out of state, requires a lot of advance planning and waiting. We requested the dates of our case worker, who contacted the judge. The judge notified the attorneys of the biological parents, who should have notified the parents (we assume…

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Surviving the First Year

Surviving the First Year

Alright so I haven’t written a post in 3 months. A lot changes in three months when you have a baby under 1, like your kid goes from not talking to talking. Not posting for three months also means that I haven’t shared with you the latest about her development, or my suffering and joy with respect to it. I tell myself that I haven’t written because there was so much going on in my life (which there was) but…

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