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Author: KITCHEN MEDICINE: HOW I FED MY DAUGHTER OUT OF FAILURE-TO-THRIVE. Words: NYT/HuffPo/Bon Appetit/Wired. Querying novel abt abortion. Pro-choice, she/her.

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Ten years ago today, my kid had her 10th endoscopy for #EosinophilicEsophagitis. It would only take 2 more before we realized that she had been misdiagnosed and all 12 of these endoscopies had been unnecessary. If you’re curious about how this could happen, I have a book for you.

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12 Aug

I feel extremely called out, and also, FINE YOU’RE RIGHT.

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Anyone else with toxic narcissists in their lives a little more invested in the Trump lawsuits than is probably healthy?

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12 Aug

SHAME, @AnthemBCBS. A newborn, premature baby isn’t worth the effort? Hey, #ProLife movement, where are you in this fight? Yeah, I thought so.

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That little girl I wrote about in KITCHEN MEDICINE

That little girl I wrote about in KITCHEN MEDICINE? The one who could barely eat? This is the cake I made for her 17th birthday, at her request: dark chocolate cake, banana pudding filling, and vanilla buttercream. This is a child who didn’t even eat cake a decade ago. She (and the rest of us) gobbled it up this year.

#FailureToThrive caregivers, don’t give up. Start practicing your baking skills so you’re ready.

(Many thanks to @the_ronuchka for the decorating and assembly help!)

So looking forward to this important book by @toma

So looking forward to this important book by @tomandkathansen for and by parents of children with congenital heart disease! What a gift to this community. Thank you, Tom & Kat!

#chd #CHDParents #CongenitalHeartDisease

Every so often, I get a review of KITCHEN MEDICINE

Every so often, I get a review of KITCHEN MEDICINE that really touches me. This is one of them. I knew our story would appeal to families that understood the three-ring (ok, eight to twenty ring!) circus that is caring for a medically complex child, but it's especially heartening to hear that our story is engaging to others, too. Thank you, JB!

#Memoir #BookReview #Bookstagram #CHD #CongenitalHeartDisease #MedicallyComplex #EosinophilicEsophagitis

This kid turned 17 today. I spent a lot of her 16t

This kid turned 17 today. I spent a lot of her 16th year reliving her first 9 through the process of publicizing my memoir KITCHEN MEDICINE, but today I am celebrating the last 2+ years especially. Getting to spend so much time with this funny, gentle, food-loving, delightful kid has been pretty fantastic. If only we could teach her to eat ramen with chopsticks, it would be nearly perfect.

I adore you, @spreadthesunshine_.

No filter, just me keeping my @angelicorganics sca

No filter, just me keeping my @angelicorganics scallions alive in the gorgeous late afternoon light of my kitchen window.

This is one of the plants I grew from seed in my y

This is one of the plants I grew from seed in my yard. It’s called tansy, and it is hugely important in my next book. Because the book is fiction, I will never see the people in the story, so it was extra thrilling to watch this seed germinate, sprout, and grow into something real.

And if you know what tansy does, you have a hint of the central conflict in the story.
#tansy #amwriting

Here’s another way to save some summer for winte

Here’s another way to save some summer for winter: grow a whole forest of basil and start making pesto to freeze. This basil is pulverized with tons of raw cashews and nutritional yeast and salt and olive oil and the @angelicorganics garlic scapes I finally figured out how to use, and then I store it in flattened bags in the freezer. One cold November day, I’ll remember it and taste the sun in my yard before I’ve even finished defrosting it.

#pesto #basil

Directly from peaches to cherries, do not pass go,

Directly from peaches to cherries, do not pass go, do not collect $200, just spit those pits over the porch rails like it’s my job. #cherries

Final peach post! I am not very good at pie. I fi

Final peach post!

I am not very good at pie. I find crust hard to make and unpredictable, so this time I bought a frozen crust, which was not awesome but did just enough to hold in the mound of peaches, topped with pecan crumble. It was delicious, though not my favorite thing I made with peaches this year. Someone send me a better recipe for next summer?

Coming soon: a series of photographic love poems to the contents of my @angelicorganics CSA boxes, full of local produce that opens my mind up every summer. Stay tuned!

It looks like sliced peaches, but it’s ACTUALLY

It looks like sliced peaches, but it’s ACTUALLY summer preserved for winter. I have three gallons (and a quart) in my freezer, and I guarantee you that 90% of them will end up in my oatmeal, all winter.

These bags of frozen peaches make me feel rich. This is how abundance feels to me - all the peaches I need to feel the sun on my face in winter.

#peaches

Today in peaches. No filter. Just these spectacula

Today in peaches. No filter. Just these spectacular stone fruits, some Trader Joe’s slivered almonds (which are good on everything), and vanilla soy yogurt.

I got sad halfway through the bowl because half of it was already gone.

#peaches

Today in peaches: peach butter on the left, peach

Today in peaches: peach butter on the left, peach simple syrup on the right. The peach butter required the removal of the peach skin and pits; the peach syrup is flavored using the skin and pits. Win win!

I have about 10 lbs left from my original 50. Better get cooking! #peaches

A brief break in peach content to tell all Chicago

A brief break in peach content to tell all Chicago area people to go see the Nick Cave exhibit at the @mcachicago. Between the rooms full of spinning shapes, the performance videos, the Soundsuits, and the found-object sculptures, I will be thinking about this for a long time.

No filter. Meta peach cake.

No filter. Meta peach cake.

Peach creation #1 - a delicious peach quickbread f

Peach creation #1 - a delicious peach quickbread from another winning recipe by @tastesoflizzyt - smothered in a peach glaze once it cooled but also pretty delicious even without the glaze.

Next up: peach syrup, peach and pecan crumble, and gallons of peach slices heading for the freezer. Stay tuned! #peaches

NBD, just me and my friend with 100 pounds of peac

NBD, just me and my friend with 100 pounds of peaches in a Menard’s parking lot, courtesy of @thepeachtruck.

You are about to get a LOT of peach content up in this Instagram.

#peachtruck #peaches

100% out of the actual ground. No marketing campai

100% out of the actual ground. No marketing campaign, no slick packaging. How lucky are we????

#veggiesallday

It’s been a hard, hard time. Between national po

It’s been a hard, hard time. Between national politics, a local mass shooting, and my own personal challenges, I’ve not known what to do with my aching heart. I wrote my newsletter this afternoon and vowed to make a pound cake to go with the berry compote my friend @darinachic made me, even though I wasn’t feeling like cooking. What was it all for?, I asked.

And then my daughter @the_ronuchka arrived with her lifelong friend @night_time_moth, who has been away for a long time, and her friend’s cousin, who is a delight - and the two of them said they’d stay for dinner.

Now I knew what the cake was for. And now I also had a reason to make a celebratory summer dinner with pesto made from the basil in my garden, and the house is full of the sound of laughing again, and my belly and heart are full of a reason for cake.

“Eating is a small, good thing in a time like this.” - Raymond Carver

A moment of appreciation for @brewtoledo and this

A moment of appreciation for @brewtoledo and this spectacular BANANA PANCAKE LATTE, which sounded like it would be too much but was, in fact, exactly enough. It’s like coffee and pancakes in one cup. Made with oat milk because it’s also oatmeal? Wow. No idea how they do this but BRAVO. #independentcoffeeshop #coffee #vegancoffee

Another day on vacation, another meal that ticked

Another day on vacation, another meal that ticked all my boxes! This is vegetarian spicy garlic ramen from @kintonramen in Toronto. I added a seasoned egg and I think the culinary term for this is “totally amazeballs.”

Toronto is a very vegetarian friendly city. Everywhere we’ve gone has had fantastic options, and I feel very lucky that all four of us are willing to try and share lots of things. Highlights from yesterday were some fantastic tacos and a bowl of coconut mango sago - but this ramen was the best bite (slurp?) of the day!
#Vegetarian #VegetarianRamen #VegetarianToronto

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