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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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Figs + basil

29 July 2010

My parents had a fig tree at their house when my sister and I were growing up. My sister was too small at that time, but my girlfriends and I would run around the yard in summer and after school. The lower branches from the magnolia trees had been cut down because my mother was […]

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Wine-poached salmon + sorrel pesto

9 July 2010

This post could also be titled What To Do with Leftover Wine, which I realize may not be a problem for everyone. It usually isn’t a problem for me, either, but there was this very large glass of white wine—a piece of plastic wrap helpfully covering its top—sitting in my refrigerator. The bottle had already […]

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Roast asparagus with white miso

1 June 2010

William Faulkner is said to have once remarked that he preferred to write about women in lieu of men in his novels. I think women are marvelous, he said, and they are wonderful, and I know very little about them. I think that Japanese food is marvelous and that it’s wonderful. I know very little […]

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The great (e)scape

28 May 2010

I once had a friend in college (rather, boyfriend) who fancied himself a very good chef. When he went to cook me dinner, it was stir fry, which is probably what he cooked for the next girlfriend, and the girlfriend after that, and the girlfriend after that, in case you were wondering where this story […]

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Pasta puttanesca

17 May 2010

They say this dish’s origins lie in the workplace of that oldest of professions. (Funny that the oldest profession would be a woman’s, no?) Some say it was prepared by working ladies in between engagements, when time was scarce and shopping infeasible. Others say it was prepared by those same working ladies to lure potential […]

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How to microwave a chicken

28 April 2010

A certain member of my family, who shall remain nameless, is quite famous for having once attempted to cook a chicken in the microwave. I was not alive when these events took place (nor was the chicken), but even I will tell this story (it’s just that sentence) at family and other dinners, to either […]

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Steak knight

22 April 2010

Ah, rice pudding, rich with raisins! Ah, spaghetti baked with honey and shaved almonds in a buttery dish! Ah, potatoes any way at all… writes MFK Fisher in How to Cook a Wolf, her how-to on the cooking of larger canines and other obscure animals from World War II. I don’t believe I’ve ever had […]

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Milling about

30 March 2010

I have great affection for what I think of as bistro styles of food, though this could be a category that exists only in my mind. They are prepared either ages in advance (boeuf bourguignon, lamb shanks, duck confit) or in a very small amount of time just before you want to eat (salad with […]

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Green is good

22 March 2010

There is an Italian restaurant off Pimlico Road in London that sits squarely in the old-school. It has a nouveau Milano-type décor with black, white, red leather, and a Sloane ranger-type clientele that matches. The staff are brusque, noisy, and not that nice, unless you’ve ordered the most expensive wine on the list. In the […]

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Summer’s over

Figs + basil

Wine-poached salmon + sorrel pesto

Roast asparagus with white miso

The great (e)scape

Pasta puttanesca

How to microwave a chicken

Steak knight

Milling about

Green is good

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