{"id":969,"date":"2011-11-13T09:17:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T13:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=969"},"modified":"2012-02-12T23:11:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T05:11:38","slug":"craving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=969","title":{"rendered":"Craving…"},"content":{"rendered":"

***I just found this draft as I was cleaning up the ‘ole blog and couldn’t bring myself to get rid of it despite it being nearly a year old… I wrote this when I was newly pregnant with Emil and wasn’t ready to tell the world yet. \u00a0I added the last picture to finally complete it. Am I nostalgic about pregnancy? A little. Enough to do it again? Nope.*** <\/em><\/p>\n

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The day before I went into labor with Milo. Baltimore, 2007.<\/em><\/p>\n

With Milo, it was lamb. I remember never having eaten it before, let alone prepared it. But I had to have it. Like, once a week. Once a week I filled our tiny Philadelphia rowhouse with smoke in the middle of winter as the broiler attempted to properly singe the tasty morsels of meat.<\/p>\n

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Just for kicks, our tiny kitchen in Philadelphia, where we lived during most of my pregnancy with Milo. Loved that place. Aw, memories!<\/em><\/p>\n

With Oliver, coconut cupcakes. HAD to have them. Which resulted in weekly trips to Georgetown Cupcake in the heart of Georgetown, DC. And likely explains the phenomenon of the delicious ooey-gooey baby that was Oliver.<\/p>\n

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The week before Oliver was born. Washington, DC, 2009.<\/em><\/p>\n

This time, kale. And, to be quite specific, lox with dill on an everything bagel with cream cheese, tomato, capers, and pickled red onions. I mean, this is serious. I could eat it every. single. day. That seems like no big surprise, as I have always enjoyed this breakfast of champions. But the kale??? I (alone) have eaten two ENTIRE bunches of kale in THREE DAYS. Sauteed in garlic and olive oil with a squeeze of lemon and a dash of sea salt. And still I feel like it could make a tasty snack this afternoon.<\/p>\n

I think I am craving the richest, most nutrient-dense foods I can imagine. My familiar sweet tooth is turning up its nose at pecan-caramel brownies and opting instead for eggs Florentine. Why? Who knows. One theory is the old crave-what-you-need standby. At a full 10 lbs lighter than I started when I became pregnant with Oliver, I think I am trying to pack on the (good) pounds for this little belly-munchkin. Which is fine by me. Especially if it requires the eating of such fine foods. Mmmmm. So, if you are thinking of sending a special treat, make it smoked salmon, gravlox style.<\/p>\n

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Exactly one week before Emil was born. St. Louis, 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n

***So now I’m curious… ladies who have birthed a babe or two, or are pregnant now, what did\/do you crave, if anything?***<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

***I just found this draft as I was cleaning up the ‘ole blog and couldn’t bring myself to get rid of it despite it being nearly a year old… I wrote this when I was newly pregnant with Emil and wasn’t ready to tell the world yet. \u00a0I added the last picture to finally complete … Continue reading “Craving…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[110,55,171],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-philadelphia","tag-pregnancy","tag-yummy-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/2083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}