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pasta, polenta, grains

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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Ottolenghi’s farro + roasted pepper salad

4 July 2010

Happy 4th of July! Or, if you are in Britain and feeling curmudgeonly: Happy Treacherous Ungrateful Insurrectionary Day! Our cousins who feel this way—and particularly that one who wrote to wish me a Happy Treacherous Ungrateful Insurrectionary Day—may be overlooking those somewhat awkward matters of tax (too much) and representation (too little). Lest you think […]

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Dinner on the cheap, with morels + cream

14 June 2010

I bought a small box of morel mushrooms over the weekend for I won’t say how much, and no, it wasn’t very cheap. But the morels were on sale, which may have been because the season will be ending soon. And I just love morels. Don’t you? They’re one of springtime’s perfect foods, sautéed with […]

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Penne with favas, oil-cured olives, pecorino

10 June 2010

Charles and I ordered fava beans in Portugal two years ago, and we received a plate of them. There was a little dribble of very pungent olive oil on top, along with a few bits of hacked up raw garlic on the side. We had rented a car and driven up a mountainside on the […]

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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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Dinner, abbreviated

18 March 2010

People who say they don’t have time to cook are lying. They may not know it, but they are. They might be too tired to cook. They might not know how to cook. They also might not know what to cook. As to the first, there is delivery. If the second or third is the […]

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pasta, polenta, grains

Butternut squash risotto with a prosciutto chip

Orecchiette with roasted pearl onions, sausage + fennel

Ottolenghi’s farro + roasted pepper salad

Dinner on the cheap, with morels + cream

Penne with favas, oil-cured olives, pecorino

The great (e)scape

Pasta puttanesca

Dinner, abbreviated

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