Moody Food

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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Black cod with miso

21 June 2010

Eating alone can be a glory or a drag. Shoveling things out of a bowl with a spoon to your mouth in front of your favorite television program; standing next to the refrigerator with a plate in one hand and telephone wedged on the other shoulder; sitting quietly at your dining table with a candle […]

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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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Chicken + chickpea tagine

4 June 2010

It’s not summer. It’s not summer. It’s not summer. I can’t hear you; it’s not summer. Thermometer, I can’t see you! It is not summer. It isn’t summer for another several weeks, I know, but by way of a preemptive confession: Unless there is sand and ocean, I hate hot weather. I grew up in […]

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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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Zucchini purée

Zucchini “tagliatelle”

Black cod with miso

Basil panna cotta, strawberry lime compote

Dinner on the cheap, with morels + cream

Penne with favas, oil-cured olives, pecorino

Chicken + chickpea tagine

Roast asparagus with white miso

The great (e)scape

Thai beef salad

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