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Lapin DB

11 August 2010

What lives in your freezer? Mine has—or rather had—frozen peas, two saddles of rabbit, boned, Mexican-style chorizo, egg whites, dashi (Japanese fish stock), and some spinach, but now it’s just the final two. Do you ever wonder whether the contents of your freezer say anything about you as an eater or a person? I once […]

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Basil panna cotta, strawberry lime compote

18 June 2010

I’m one of those people who orders dessert when no one else wants any. People don’t order dessert, I think, because they’re ready to leave their present company, or because they prefer to enjoy their sweets in solitude. And I guess some people don’t actually want it. I don’t know whether these insights are right or […]

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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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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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Thai beef salad

24 May 2010

I once took a couple of classes on Thai cooking at a French restaurant in China. Makes sense, no? In point of fact it does, which is the beauty of Shanghai city’s culture (though I am bereaved to know that the pajama party will be ceasing soon). But that is not the subject of my […]

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Happy Mama’s Day!

9 May 2010

I think my own mother would hate these, but pink and green does seem the right color scheme for Mommy’s Day.

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Asparagus boat

6 May 2010

I’ve missed the boat on a lot of things this week. Tuesday was May Fourth, perhaps an interesting day to think about Chinese food, and Wednesday was Cinco de Mayo, probably a nice day to think about Mexican food. But there were other things going on in my world both yesterday and the day before […]

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Beauty

18 April 2010

Our friend here might not win any beauty contests, but I love her just the same. She is virtuous, straightforward, and (crucially) delicious. She’s also a perfect foil to any new-found habits one might have with duck fat. She wasn’t my idea, though. I see Swiss chard at farmers’ markets, buy bunches with abandon, and […]

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spring

Lapin DB

Basil panna cotta, strawberry lime compote

Dinner on the cheap, with morels + cream

Penne with favas, oil-cured olives, pecorino

Roast asparagus with white miso

The great (e)scape

Thai beef salad

Happy Mama’s Day!

Asparagus boat

Beauty

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