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Word has come in from family in Denver that the temperature's in the single digits. We'd swear it's that cold here. We even have the long johns out, and we're taking a vow to stay indoors til spring.
Looking to curl up with good blog? Let us recommend one of our favorites,
Posie Gets Cozy. Alicia Paulson, the author, doesn't live here. And her blog's not really devoted to cooking -- rather, to embroidery and other needle crafts (she's written books on the subject) but among our favorite entries of Paulson's are those about cooking.
This is clearly a Woman Who Does Everything Better Than You Do, people, but she's so self-effacing about it, you won't mind, though as she warns when she posts pictures of her studio, you might hate her 'cause it's so beautiful. Her food looks darn tasty, too.
Some lovely recent cooking posts:
We loved Paulson's entry about sour cream apple pie -- in fact, we wish we'd found the recipe before Thanksgiving (let's just say we've dubbed our own homemade effort "sour grapes apple pie," and aren't sure we'll make anything ever again for certain critical family members).
And this week she hands over the blog to her husband Andy, who's making
pizza. The photography on this blog is just gorgeous -- check out the
chicken mole poblano she whipped up last month.
This blog will make you want to move to Portland, Oregon, where Paulson lives. But remember: The weather will be a lot like what we've got at the moment, only for several months a year. Maybe better to live cyber-vicariously.
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Amy Silverman is a two-time winner of the Arizona Press Club’s Journalist of the Year award. Her work has appeared on the radio show This American Life and in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Lenny Letter, and Brain, Child. She’s the co-curator of the live reading series Bar Flies, and a commentator for KJZZ, the NPR affiliate in Phoenix. Silverman is the author of the book My Heart Can’t Even Believe It: A Story of Science, Love, and Down Syndrome (Woodbine House 2016). Follow her on Instagram (@amysilverman), Twitter (@amysilvermanaz), and at amy-silverman.com.
