cookies – Orangette https://orangette.net Mon, 07 Mar 2016 20:55:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 Cooking with a young child https://orangette.net/2016/02/9390/ https://orangette.net/2016/02/9390/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2016 23:40:13 +0000 http://orangette.net/?p=9390 Today, on the ole blog: some thoughts about cooking with a kid! After the jump! Because I totally get that not everyone wants to read about kid stuff!  See you next time! June started school last fall, and we enrolled her in a Montessori school. I went to a Montessori-influenced school, myself, from preschool through middle school, and Brandon once spent a year teaching music in a Montessori school, and without going into a whole bunch of educational philosophy that I only vaguely follow and that, as a result, makes me really sleepy, I will just say that I loved the Montessori method as a student, and that it makes a lot of sense to us as parents. (Let’s ignore, for now, the…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2016/02/9390/feed/ 125 Out on this limb https://orangette.net/2011/10/out-on-this-limb/ https://orangette.net/2011/10/out-on-this-limb/#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:10:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/out-on-this-limb I was planning to start this post with something about food, because that’s the way these things usually work. But I can’t seem to start much of anything, because this is sitting next to my chair. This is Alice. As of last Friday, she has turned our family of three into a family of four. She is nine months old and weighs about 35 pounds, and though we have no idea what breed she is, we’re guessing some kind of pointer mixed with something else. Possibly a Muppet. Our friend Sam named her Peter Falk, which we changed to Mrs. Peter Falk before eventually settling on Alice, which was the name of Peter Falk’s first wife (though we changed the…

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