I thought it would be grown-up-ly of me to shove a few vegetables into our menu in between Halloween candy and Christmas cookies, so I've been consulting Isa Chandra Moskowitz's Appetite for Reduction and it has reminded me how much I enjoy really going to town on a bowl of legumes.
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| There isn't even candy at the bottom of this Smoky Split Pea Soup and I still loved it. |
The children even ate some parts of this Pasta e Fagioli with Spinach.
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| Mostly the beige parts. |
Of course, we had to make room amid all this responsibility for the sublime decadence of a four-year-old-designed birthday cake.
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| Even Anna thinks it might be a bit much. |
For the most part we are just recovering from birthday festivities. Embracing our fourness.
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| Maybe we will embrace it tomorrow. |
