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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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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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Happy Aunt’s Day!

12 May 2010

Is there an Aunt’s Day anywhere? I don’t think so, which is a shame, because my aunt is pretty great. And look! She also has the greatest pots and pans. (The one on the top left weighs ten tons, for the record, with that other clocking in at a mere five.) She makes the greatest […]

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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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Shrimp gougères

1 May 2010

Way-uh ah the hors d’oeuvres? We were standing on the rooftop of a ladies’ club, and I did not have the answer to this burning question. There was white wine, a few mixed drinks, some crudités. Who dunks raw cauliflower in Ranch Dressing and eats it? There were no hors d’oeuvres. For the types of […]

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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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Freezing rainy spring

21 April 2010

People think a lot about eating seasonally these days, and with good reason. It is very satisfying to eat with a sense that whatever place you are is not just any place but this one, and that seasons and their fruits remain ephemeral. Anticipation and then recollection are important parts of sustenance, I think. So […]

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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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