Iris’s favorite meal from about age nine to fifteen months was canned black beans and canned sweet potatoes. I’d put a little butter and cumin on the beans and just cut the sweet potatoes into chunks. Beans are pretty much the perfect baby food: they’re full of fiber and protein, bite-sized, and easy to chew. […]
Cooking dinner for the family is easy. Lunch is hard. Pre-Iris, I used to eat lunch out at every available opportunity. Beef teriyaki and a couple of pieces of mackerel sushi at Hana. Two slices of sausage and onion pizza at Pagliacci. Chicken peperonata sandwich at Red Line. Now, lunch out is an occasional luxury, and I […]
We’re planning to have family over for Christmas dinner this year, so we’ve been trying out some recipe ideas. The failed roast duck from last week was one idea. Tonight we tried, with much more success, the Mock Porchetta from the Zuni Cafe Cookbook. Iris liked it, especially the pan sauce. Several times, Iris has […]
Iris has been hanging out in coffeehouses since she was a week old, when I started taking her to Espresso Vivace. At six pounds, she was too small for even a Baby Bjorn, so I would carry her in one of those precarious-looking baby slings, the kind that make otherwise normal people ask, “Is there […]
We had some leftover sausages and plums, except Iris had eaten all the plums, and it was only a sausage and a half, not enough for all of us. So I looked in the pasta drawer and found it dangerously low: spaghetti, fettucine, vermicelli, lasagna, and elbow macaroni. I’m not even sure why we have […]