Pomato Revival

It seems I’m never home on weekends. I don’t even know what I do—not summery things like swimming or camping. The weeks just come and go and I can’t remember what I did with my time. When people ask on Monday how my weekend was, I look back at the blur of days and say, […]

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Here’s something you may not know about me: I’m a crazy, smothery, smoochy, obsessed aunt. My niece Sofia just turned one, and from the moment the party planning began I kept trying to figure out a way to sneak some of my baking into the day. It’s not that I wanted to crash the party […]

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For 29 years, I haven’t known what to do with artichokes. This is embarrassing, considering I spent my childhood hooked on them. I’d fight my brothers for the stems when my mom cooked them; invent new methods for peeling the meat off the leaves so I could brag to my cousins—it was always a secret, […]

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I’ve told you about The Owl’s Nest and I’ve told you about my husband’s ridiculous improv cooking skills. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that when you put them together, amazing things happen. The only way to cook at the Owl is to put food over fire. I guess you could boil things too, but […]

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  I’ve been thinking of all the ways I’d tell you about The Owl’s Nest, but every time I start it doesn’t give it justice. So I figured I’d just take you there. Imagine a place in the woods where time stands still. Once you arrive you lose all sense of when you got there, […]

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    Oh, hi! Notice something different around here? No, I didn’t cut my hair. And yes, this is a new dress, but that’s not what I mean. Pomato Revival has a new look! As much as I’ve loved Blogger this last year, I decided it was time for a change, so here we are […]

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It’s funny, how we think we can know someone just because we’ve spent our whole lives with them. Like my dad: After 29 years together, I can tell you a lot about him. So much so that I’d dare to say I know him pretty well. Before retiring, he wore Wrangler jeans to work and […]

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I’m always working on polishing my secret weapons. You know, the things you whip up with whatever’s in the cupboard when a houseful of people pop in. That comforting something that takes fifteen minutes to make from scratch and keeps your kitchen smelling like butter and home all night. Even though they’re not in my […]

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I was sitting at work this week, a little uninspired, when I realized my problem. I don’t have ice cream. I’ve been dying for a chocolate ice cream cone for days. It’s what I see when I’m drifting off to sleep at night. As I try to get work done, thoughts of chocolate and cream […]

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It’s been nearly three months since I posted my list of (almost) 100 things I want to do this year. I have to say, I nearly forgot about it for a few weeks (it’s been a distracting month) until it hit me that I was doing things on the list without even meaning to. I’d […]

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