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calling all homeschoolers!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on January 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

            

Young adult author Tanita S. Davis has just created a very cool Multidisciplinary Homeschooling Unit for her 2010 Coretta Scott King Honor winning novel, Mare’s War! I especially like the Social Studies/Sociology Reflection Essay ideas and the Social Studies/Geography/History Activities Guide.

Just because she feels like it, Tanita is having a special giveaway just for homeschooling families beginning Tuesday, January 11. Be sure to visit her blog for a chance to win a brand new paperback copy! WooHoo! Looks like 1-11-11 may just be your lucky day. ☺

Check out Tanita’s official website for more about Mare’s War.

Copyright © 2011 Jama Rattigan of jama rattigan’s alphabet soup. All rights reserved.

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va va voom, va va vegans: part two

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

       

Now comes the part where I confess my guilt.

According to Accepted Hostess Protocol (AHP), when you invite people to your home, you’re supposed to wait on them. While this does not always entail gently waving palm fronds to keep delicate ladies from wilting in summer heat, strategically tossing grapes into eager mouths, or kissing toe rings (yes, I did all of these things), it usually means you should do most of the cooking.

Which is what I fully intended to do — but sometimes you are simply so enthralled by someone else’s culinary techniques and flair, you find yourself watching and snapping photos instead, and then begging for more.

For a couple of years, I had heard tell of The World’s Best Baker — this man of mystery who conjured up recipes, took beautiful photographs of the process and then blogged about it. This man who made a deep, dark, rich Guinness Cake, who seemed to revel in whipping up salads and dressings from ingredients magically appearing in his fridge, this stalwart, erudite vegan virtuoso feeding a brilliant author who recently won a prestigious literary award.

         
            Chef David shows off his famous Lemon Cake.

If such a man came to your house, would you not want to sit back, observe, and absorb as much as you could?

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veni, vidi, vici, or, va va voom, va va vegans: part one

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on July 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »


Cornelius welcomes Benjamin Bear to the den. Thanks so much, Geri!!

She came, she saw, she conquered!!

And she wore bearfoot slippers, of course.

photo by David at wishiwerebaking.

Last week, we had the distinct pleasure of playing with hosting Tanita S. Davis (winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award for Mare’s War), her husband David (world’s best baker), and her lovely mom, Geraldine (champion hugger and all-around beautiful person) at our humble home in the woods.

You may remember my excitement and wee trepidation regarding the "Coming of the Vegans." To prepare for this momentous event, the alphabet soup kitchen helpers thoroughly brushed their fur, hosed down cleaned, polished, and prettified the house from top to bottom, stocked up on edible goodies, and chanted "lemons lemons lemons" from morning till night.

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the always beguiling tanita s. davis

Posted in author recipes, cake recipes, poetry potluck 2010, tagged , , on April 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »

#20 in the Poetry Potluck Series, celebrating National Poetry Month 2010.

             
       photo by Rolland Glass.

For Tanita S. Davis, love is spelled, "L-I-M-E."

The girl is wild about them, "in ANYTHING and everything." Now, prior to this Potluck, it would never have occurred to me that she might want to dive into that vase to get at those limes, one sassy slice at a time. But after reading her poem, I suspect her refrigerator is full of limes, her bed, lined with them, her dreams, haunted by them. Splash!

      

Thanks to Tanita, I’ve gained new respect for these little green fruit. Oh, how I’ve callously overlooked them in my naive tunnel-vision of lemon love! My knowledge of limes is limited to a few Mexican food rendezvous, a passing glance at a Margarita.

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random cuppie-o-gram #9420

Posted in cuppie-o-grams, poetry potluck 2010, Uncategorized, tagged on April 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »


 photo by Miss Cupcakery.


It’s time to crown another Poetry Potluck Oh-So-Random-Door-Prize winner!

Tanita S. Davis, come on down!! (Or, in your case, swim on over!)

      

You’ve just won a brand new copy of Come to the Castle by Linda Ashman, illustrated by S.D. Schindler (Roaring Brook Press, 2009)! I hope you’re in the mood for a bawdy Medieval feast! For a couple of sample poems from the book, see my Poetry Friday post here.

Congratulations, Tanita, and thanks for coming to the Potluck! Please send your mailing address to: readermail (at) jamakimrattigan (dot) com.

**Stay tuned for more random door prizes as we celebrate the final week (sob) of National Poetry Month. All commenters are eligible to win!

Have a great week, everyone!

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