12 Intimidating Foods I Want to Learn to Make
My mom and I are good cooks. Good, simple cooks. Both of us are whizzes with casseroles, veggies, and all manner of simple, homey foods. Neither of us, however, is used to cooking fancier fare on a...
View Article5 Steps to Creating Your Own Mom Food Project
The most gratifying thing about this project is the bond it’s created between me and my mom. A close second, though, is the chord it’s struck with the people around me. All I have to do is mention what...
View ArticleMomfood failures
[Note from Serene: I am so happy that my friend Chris was willing to come over from his blog to share his Mom Food stories with us. If you’d like to do the same, see the Contribute page.] I don’t know...
View ArticleFollow Friday: 1000 Reasons I’m a Crap Mom
Follow Fridays are when we at the Mom Food Project stop focusing on ourselves for a day and turn our focus to other people in the world who are feeding their loved ones and writing about it. Know of...
View ArticleBlogHer Food, Wild Rice Salad, and tossing things together
Sometimes, you just have to toss things together and see what comes of them. Other times, of course, planning is important and pays off and shows that you’re a good grown-up and all. Yada, yada....
View ArticleMertie’s Mondays: Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without
[Note from Serene: Chris’s posts have become among my very favorites on the blog. If you’d like to share your Mom Food with the world, too, or at least our little corner of it, please check out our...
View ArticleOPMF: James’s potato soup
[OPMF=Other People’s Mom Food] James requested potato soup for dinner, “if there’s bacon”. When he got home and the bacon was sizzling on the stove, in preparation for being turned into the basis for...
View ArticleWhy do I do it?
Sometimes, do you ask yourself, “Why do I bother? Why do I make the effort to do what I do? To go to work, gather sustenance, keep a cheerful countenance, pay all the bills on time, try to stem the...
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