A Recipe for a Good Saturday

Ingredients: one sleep-in until 8:30. One large pot of coffee. Two kids in pajamas watching cartoons. One dog asleep on your feet.

Method: Make waffles. Burn the first one, as is tradition. Eat the second with too much syrup. Go to the farmers market and let each kid pick one weird vegetable. Come home with kohlrabi, purple carrots and something called romanesco that looks like it came from another planet.

Spend the afternoon cooking the weird vegetables together. Pretend to like the kohlrabi. Actually like the romanesco.

Walk to the park at sunset. Push the kids on the swings. Get pushed on a swing yourself, by your nine-year-old, who is very proud of how high she can push you.

Serves: one very happy family.