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This is the winter slaw of my dreams. With a bowl of soup, it's a perfect between-holidays dinner.

These links, with all the tantalizing links-past down below, are a black hole. Before I know it I've worked myself all the way back to cinco de mayo. Yummmmmm.

needed something for a brunch dessert and this was just the ticket. cut it into fingers [a whole sandwich would have done us in] and served with a minty berry salad, which was soon being stuffed between the cream cheese and nutella. a winning/ easy/ interactive dessert!

with GMO labeling on the ballot in California in November and the millions of dollars Monsanto and other companies are throwing against it, I don't think the timing of this hubbub is coincidental. non-organic companies seem to feel they have a lot to lose from being honest with their consumers.

PS- it's also not true that this additional label would [or, should] pass any cost onto the consumer. at least, the labels the EU has been putting on for decades hasn't.

it's great on roasted sweet potato!

oh, I have so many suggestions. here's one: if you can, move between school years. we often moved mid-year which was awfully disorienting, socially and academically. curriculums don't match so you're out of that loop and friendships can be tough to break into, depending on the age group. moving mid-1st and mid-3rd grades was traumatic, but then, I'm also on the introverted side.

also, consider alternatives to public school. I would rather have gone to boarding school than move from Connecticut to North Carolina before my senior year, but it never crossed my mind. in retrospect, I wish I'd just home schooled or "un" schooled.

I often find myself regretting in fall that I didn't eat enough peaches in summer. not this year! our small household has so far gone through two of the $5 boxes at TJs and I'm going back for more.

this week I know I'm making sunset magazine's peach, mint and curry dressing caprese salad:
http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/peach-mint-caprese-salad-with-curry-vinaigrette-10000001646370/

it IS stunning- conceptual and esoteric too. each element is so involved [draping the film, candying the celery, icing the leaves] that I snorted a little when he said he doesn't like to overthink things!

brilliant! what else can I manage with brute strength that I've been wasting time and knife skills on? is it too much to hope I can do this to cauliflower and cabbage too?

toxic or not, I'm always looking for ways to more gently appease my sweet tooth. so more of these compilations, please- especially honey recipes!

I quite like this shortcake from King Arthur:
http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/honey-shortcake-biscuits-recipe