From the monthly archives:

September 2010

Some things I made

30 September 2010

No recipes today, I’m afraid, but I’ve had some photos languishing for a bit that I wanted to share with you. (Above, olive oil crackers.) radish, lima bean, quinoa salad pistachio shortbread Bon appétit!

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Turnip green tart with a ham hock

28 September 2010

Though I am a full-blooded American, with both sides of my family in this country before it even was a country, there are some words I learned in French before I knew their English counterparts existed. Most of them have to do with food. Bay leaves to me will always be laurier. ‘Bay’ means tons […]

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Ottolenghi’s okra with tomato + preserved lemon

20 September 2010

Okra! What a funny-sounding word! Those vowels on the outside making it sound all croaky. And the two oddball consonants stuck together in the middle. It seems to take up more time and space to say than four measly letters would suggest, insisting that you pay the poor, dejected thing a little bit of notice […]

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Smoky roasted chicken

16 September 2010

Oh dear. That isn’t what I expected. Those Robiola-stuffed tomatoes from The New York Times, I mean. My food didn’t look like theirs, and I really really hope that it didn’t taste like theirs. Following recipes is not my favorite thing to do, nor is it anything I do with particular frequency or flair. But […]

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Summer’s over

9 September 2010

And this blog is not forgotten. It’s just taken a little rest. September can be hard! I hate summer often, but its end can be so sad. The tomatoes, the eggplant, all that zucchini, and especially those times for lingering over coffee, only partially drunk because it will soon be time for lunch, those times […]

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September 2010

Some things I made

Turnip green tart with a ham hock

Ottolenghi’s okra with tomato + preserved lemon

Smoky roasted chicken

Summer’s over

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