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We all have all the time and no time.How best to age not only with grace but be able to be fierce and adventurous into your 70s and 80s?It’s so much easier to listen to my watch than my body. My watch says clear things backed by clear numbers. My body says “😵💫🥸🤪🫁👀🫀🫣🤷🏻♀️”Are smart watches helpful? Absolutely. Is it imperfect and flawed? Yup.
Category Archives: Kym Cooked
Lamb in Wine and Figs
I get drooly just thinking about this meal we ate for a week. Looking for something else, I stumbled upon this NYTimes Mark Bittman recipe. I’m so glad I did. It’s so simple and easy. I made a some changes and … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking with fruit, cooking with wine, leg of lamb, slow cooker
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Halloween Buckeye Mutation
They started out so sweet and innocent. Simple homemade peanut butter chocolate candies. The original recipe (Smitten Kitchen) makes them look so elegant. But for Halloween 2012, in my hands they developed adorable eyes. Which was what my original … Continue reading
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Tagged buckeye candy, Halloween homemade candy, recipe evolution
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Berry Red Cabbage
It’s good warm or cold. It’s both summery and wintery at the same time. Fruity and earthy. Enough for a crowd or leftovers for the week. I have a yellowed recipe clipping from the Star Tribune. I’m guessing from around … Continue reading
Mango Chicken Curry
This meal that has taken almost ten years of fussing and simplifying to become a regular in my kitchen. It all started January 14th 2008, and I know because the printer put a time stamp on it. This was during … Continue reading
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Tagged hodgepodge one-pot recipe, mango chutney, Ten years of development
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Garlic Scape Salad
They’re here! After weeks and weeks of anticipation and asking the produce people at my co-op, they are finally in stock. Garlic scapes are one of my favorite very seasonal items. If you love garlic you need to get some … Continue reading
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Tagged garlic love, garlic scapes, seasonal eating, summer salads
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Lemon Pepper Pasta
How to write a heartfelt announcement – Step one: Don’t. Decide to post another “recipe” again. Step two: Procrastinate. Spend two hours reading. Then spend two hours on flexibility training (aka rolling around on the floor listening to podcasts). Then … Continue reading
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Tagged broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, lemon pepper, pasta, procrastinating
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Broccoli Pesto
It’s that time of year again. When it’s dark a lot. Which means unless I go to great effort my food pictures look terrible. So I present a bit of summer in the winter. I made this in the bright … Continue reading
Corn Curry Chicken Wild Rice Stew
I made a curry thing that doesn’t look like barf! It’s all due to Will’s fancy new camera. I’m sure in bad lighting it could still look unappetizing. Let’s not dare it to. Will and I are about to celebrate … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn corn, chicken wild rice, curry corn and chicken, slow cooker
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Fish Pie – weird, but good.
Hello! It’s been a while. I’ve got a bunch of excuses, but the biggest reason I didn’t blog is that I’m cooking up a big project. I’ve been doing my darnedest to pull all my energy into … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking experiments, sardines, sumac yogurt, The Laws of Cooking, unusual pie
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Midwest With Zest 