the slice
A newsletter about seasonal cooking and truly loving the food you make. This is an extension of Cake 'n Knife (my website), with a deeper dive into seasonal cooking and recipes that celebrates life’s everyday moments. Pull up a chair and stay a while.
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this is my fall appetizer now (opens the original)
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not everything has to be ready on time (opens the original)
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Fall is finally settling in around here, that first real shift in the air, and I’m loving it. I’m still missing Otis in the quiet moments…I haven’t decorated for fall yet. It just hasn’t come together yet, but I think I am getting ready to now. The biggest thing I’m craving is making our home as cozy as possible as the colder months set in. Usually I am pulling out the pumpkins as soon as it hits September, but some years the boxes stay in the storage closet longer. I’m trying to just give mysel
the hardest one to write (opens the original)
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I’ve been trying to figure out how to start this one for over a week, so I’m just going to write it. We lost Otis.Our beautiful Otis was my shadow - the one to follow me to every room, to climb the stairs even as his legs began to hurt in his old age so he could be on the same floor as me. He knew when I was sad and was always immediately at my side to lean in and give me a kiss. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gxs1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,f
the meal prep recipe saving my September (opens the original)
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what I'm carrying into September (opens the original)
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