The pumpkin is cooked and the chestnuts are peeled; the turkey is dry brining in the fridge; I'm getting ready for Thanksgiving! It's my favorite holiday - loved ones around the table, good food atop it, and a chance to reflect on all that we have to be thankful for. In my family, we are …
Author: Garden Correspondent
Gardener, mom, reader, and all round messy person.
Market day: Tuesday
I only found this market a little while ago, but it's really close to where we live. It's a small market held in a big space, but it's one of those places where you can find almost anything. It starts before you even enter the marketplace; you can have your watch battery changed, or find …
Pork chops
Living in Turkey, we very rarely run across pork. Stories circulate about the guy who got a suckling pig for new year, or the suitcase full of bacon that someone brought back from Greece. My mother brings us bacon when she comes (you will soon learn that there is nothing that my mother does *not* …
Still wild
Having two young kids has made me a reader of children's books again. And of course by reader I mean that I read these books out loud, over and over again. There is nothing that lets you really get inside a story the way reading it 50 or 100 times does, and there frankly aren't …
Face to face with our own silly selves
Do you ever find yourself running up against something that you have thought or said? This happened to both me and Ali today.Ali went up to Istanbul a few weeks back to see his mother and was seized by the thought that she ought to get Digiturk (satellite TV). He has been more preoccupied lately …
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