From the category archives:

autumn

Pear + almond tart

30 November 2010

Sometimes, things can all go pear-shaped. Other times, it can happen often. Thanksgiving did not go the way of that fruit, after all, my last entry’s title notwithstanding. Actually it was kind of great, and I am still very, very full. But what’s so wrong with being pear-shaped anyway? The expression, while vivid—whether to describe […]

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Thanksgiving Doom

23 November 2010

Last week a friend and I were discussing the benefits of Thanksgiving over Christmas and its cousins. There is no shopping beyond the grocery store. No need for mind reading or gift giving. No awkward mistletoe to be avoided (or worse, wind up under all alone). No weirdo office parties. No writing of Christmas cards […]

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Butternut squash risotto with a prosciutto chip

25 October 2010

I have a mild prejudice against butternut squash risotto. It’s so… done. Which is not to say that any dish on this website is completely new-fangled, original, creative, and whatever else. Or even remotely any of those things. For the most part, it’s just dinner. I do love dinner. But not when it’s so overdone. […]

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Orecchiette with roasted pearl onions, sausage + fennel

6 October 2010

I can’t possibly be the only person who, upon arriving home at ten or eleven at night, decides that now is the perfect time to cook. Regardless of how long or arduous of a day it’s been, it is nice to move around a bit at night, and it’s particularly nice when that moving is […]

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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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