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Mushroom dinners, one cake fits all, school lunchbox inspo
Greetings eaters and readers! The Weekday Vegetarians turns ONE this week, and I don’t know about you, but I will be celebrating with some veggie burgers and by placing a big order of Rancho Gordo white limas, aka TWV Cover Girls. In the Conspicuous Consumption department, here is my lightning round report: Reading: Tinkers, by Paul Harding; Friday Black, by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Happy Go-Lucky, by David Sedaris; “Mom Com,” Ariel Levy profiles Amy Schumer; On Deck: Girls They Write Songs About, by Carlene Bauer Cookbooking: Simple Pasta, by Odette Williams (happy pub day, Odette!) Listening: “She’s at Brown, Her Heart’s Still in Kabul;” Watching: Naked & Afraid, Never Have I Ever, All Things US Open…
1. How to Turn Mushrooms into Dinner
I know that mushrooms can be a hard sell on kids, but once we crossed that threshold in our house, a whole new world opened up to us on the dinner front. I really do look at a box of mushrooms the way I used to look at a tray of chicken thighs, i.e. …