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Cravings

Healthy, Easy, Fast Yummy Dinner in a Pinch

Cookie mogul Eden Hertzog shares recipes she enjoys with her family

recipe for a healthy fast dinner from Eden Hertzog

For the very first time since the history of having Cedar as our very needy roommate (I mean, our very amazingly awesome kid), Bri and I went away. Just the two of us. To Niagara Falls. I can’t explain it exactly, but I really love it there. It is godforsakenly cheesy and supremely overtouristed, but maybe that’s what draws me there: it’s not trying to be something that it’s not.

Anyway, back to the romantic weekend… We went to an outlet mall, we ate a salted pretzel dipped in bright yellow mustard, we looked at Ripley’s Believe it or Not, and we catnapped AND slept-in.

Amidst the Falls, and the Merlot, and watching TV in a king-sized bed in our hotel, I’d say it was a good weekend. Man, it was good to have fun with my husband. I think part of what made it fun was that I offered to let him make all the decisions. I think he liked that.

News and Culture Five

News Round-Up April 12: Post-Partum Traditions Around the World, a New Van Allsburg and the Kid Who Told His Teacher His Mom Was Drunk. (She Wasn’t)

What we’re reading today:

1. Mom Carmen submitted her 6-year-old son’s school journal entry to PassiveAggressiveNotes.com after he wrote that she’d been drunk one weekend. She said she hadn’t even had a drink! At least the teacher’s OK with it. Via Jezebel.

2. After giving birth, did you go into quarantine? Did you wash your hair? Why won’t some Chinese moms eat turnips for the first month post-partum? Check out all these new-mom traditions from around the world on Slate.

3. We’re big kindie rock fans around here, but we’re also pretty intrigued by these old kids records from 1948 on BoingBoing. Warning: from the comments we’ve learned that there’s definitely some antiquated racist terms in there. We imagine “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” is PC though.