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What's Cooking - A Silicon Valley Moms Group Book Club on "Comfort Food" by Kate Jacobs

There are quite a lot of foodies among us, but we are also readers, writers, mothers, friends, colleagues...rivals, people who are searching for themselves?

Today, Silicon Valley Moms Group bloggers are enjoying our monthly book club, eating...and discussing the book Comfort Food by Kate Jacobs.

• Chicago Moms Blog's Serena leads us off with some food for the soul
• Chefdruck from Chefdruck Musings reflects on her comfort food evolutions
• Bonggamom from Finding Bonggamom was surprised by reincarnations
• Jenn from Kids and a Keyboard steps outside her comfort zone
• Robyn from Who's The Boss asks if you're passionate about your job
• MamaNeena from The Carpool Reader takes comfort in the simple things
  
• Silicon Valley Diva from Blog on the Wall talks about her (dis)comfort with some French food
• Jennifer from Connect with your Teens combines work with kids
• Melanie from Tales from the Crib is finding comfort
• Kim from Passion & Art is happy to be enjoying her Vietnamese comfort food
• Rose from It's My Life wonders if applying childhood labels translate to grown-up characteristics
• Roxane from Rox and Roll on comfort food
  
• Nicole from Not Just a Working Mom says Mmmmm.....
  
• Stacy from Laptop TV Mom says pass the cream of mushroom soup
  
• Amy from Occupation Mommy asks what's your favorite comfort food?
• Jessico from This Mom Rocks It talks about when life gives you lemons
• April from Its All About Balance does some kitchen bonding
  
• Laughing at Chaos from Never a Dull Moment thinks about her transformation
  

More posts will be put up throughout the day on our writer's personal sites, so be sure to check back to follow along.

.... and if you have a post up on YOUR personal site on this topic, please leave a comment here and we will add your link!

Past Silicon Valley Moms Group Book Clubs have included:

• Much to Your Chagrin by Suzanne Guilette
  
• It Started with Pop-Tarts by Lori Hanson
• Who By Fire by Diana Spechler
• The White Trash Moms Handbook by Michelle Lamar
• Writing Motherhood by Lisa Garrigues
• The Vaccine Book by Dr. Robert W. Sears
• The Other Mother by Gwendolen Gross

vegetarian mama, omnivorian family: torture-by-tempeh or sausage party?

I am a vegetarian. Not to save the animals, and not to save my body, although both of those pursuits are perfectly good reasons to forgo a Halifax donair. I just happen to like a peaceful plate, as well as one that doesn’t have every orifice emitting the funk of the underworld for a week.

But I’m also a Maritimer, and tasked with feeding two boys and one man who would dance naked with their arms upturned and mouths open if the sky rained sausages. Which means that I am 1) bound by provincial legislation to crush lobsters with my bare hands and suck the seawater out of their furry wee legs regardless of how I feel about meat; and 2) forever doomed to cook two separate dinners nightly.

(I know, I know. Sucking lobster legs is not veggie-kosher but lobsters are nasty f*ckers. Lobsters are glorified sea insects, bloodthirsty scrappers who unite to tear each others’ claws off every third Tuesday. Lobsters are the Klingons of the animal world. And besides—my birthright requires me to ingest as much seawater as humanly possible. It’s the law.)