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Of geeky cooking and the Christmas spirit

20 December 2010

By virtue of the fact that I own and run this website, I am most likely a geek. But not, perhaps, as geeky as the best of them. Them, I mean. Those Boston Brahmin types (in a good way!) who know all about the science of cooking, test recipes they know won’t work so that […]

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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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Potato salad with grainy mustard

17 August 2010

MF has moved house! Sigh. Not really, but I have put my entire life in boxes, and am two weeks away from seeing them again. Why is moving always so traumatic? Even if you know exactly where you will wind up on the other end, and even if you’re excited about the move (I was! […]

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Summer squash gratin with garlic + summer savory

6 August 2010

Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear. I try to update this space at least a couple of times per week, but recently it’s been at a paltry one. For those of you who read me regularly, I appreciate your forbearance! To those new arrivals at this space from Columbia, South Carolina, thank you so much […]

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Ottolenghi love, part II

12 July 2010

I once spent a short amount of time in London working on a book project. To compensate for the brevity of my stay, perhaps, as well as the attending traumas of making frequent moves, the gods gave me the best officemate ever. A German who spoke the Queen’s English better than I ever could or […]

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Zucchini purée

1 July 2010

I have a weakness for puréed vegetables, which I think are usually called baby food. But as I remain confident in the tastiness of these things, I also think that getting someone else to eat them is more a feat of marketing than of anything else. To that end, I won’t recommend opening your next […]

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Zucchini “tagliatelle”

27 June 2010

Last night at dinner I had a concoction called a “crab ‘cappuccino.’ ” When food with quotation marks goes wrong, I think, it can go very wrong. But the sense of whimsy often makes it worth the risk. And my crab “cappuccino” was delicious. It had a lovely kind of southeast Asian flair, including lime, […]

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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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Lentils with caramelized onions + gingery spinach

20 May 2010

and The Underpants Gnomes Theory of Weight Loss:* 1) Eat, torturously 2) … 3) Look great!!!** Moody Food does not do diets. We’re sure they work for lots of people; we just don’t know any of them. And Moody Food is unfortunately not Catholic. We don’t believe in guilt as a useful disincentive or incentive […]

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vegetable

Of geeky cooking and the Christmas spirit

Turnip green tart with a ham hock

Ottolenghi’s okra with tomato + preserved lemon

Potato salad with grainy mustard

Summer squash gratin with garlic + summer savory

Ottolenghi love, part II

Zucchini purée

Zucchini “tagliatelle”

Roast asparagus with white miso

Lentils with caramelized onions + gingery spinach

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