almonds – Orangette https://orangette.net Mon, 15 Feb 2016 19:57:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 Maybe he’s right https://orangette.net/2014/04/maybe-hes-right/ https://orangette.net/2014/04/maybe-hes-right/#comments Sat, 26 Apr 2014 08:18:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2014/04/26/maybe-hes-right This is the fifth granola recipe I’ve posted on this blog. Five. Five! Four more than anyone needs! I cannot be stopped! I’ve turned into your annoying great-aunt, the one who tells the same boring story about Eisenhower every Thanksgiving, over and over and over and over and over. I even have the requisite small crotchety dog and a banana-yellow Formica kitchen, circa 1960. My transformation is complete. I’ve been making granola regularly, at least once or twice a month, for something like fifteen years. I’ve gone through several recipes and versions, from the lowish in fat – a tragic notion that, I now believe, goes against the whole concept of granola – to the intricately spiced, thoroughly nutted, and…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2014/04/maybe-hes-right/feed/ 111 From now on https://orangette.net/2013/12/from-now-on/ https://orangette.net/2013/12/from-now-on/#comments Fri, 20 Dec 2013 04:35:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2013/12/20/from-now-on Our friend Ben was here last week. He arrived on Thursday, just in time for lunch, and flew out early Tuesday morning.  Even June misses him, I think.  She got into the habit of standing at the top of the basement stairs – our guest room is down there, a dungeon with red deep-pile carpet and faux wood paneling and an enormous oil furnace that’s as loud as a train – and yelling, Beh! Beh! Beh! until he came upstairs. We all agree that his trip was too short, but he did stay long enough to play a ukulele duet with Brandon, to get a kiss from June, to make me a Boulevardier and a great steak, to help us host a…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2013/12/from-now-on/feed/ 99 We ate this cake https://orangette.net/2010/02/we-ate-this-cake/ https://orangette.net/2010/02/we-ate-this-cake/#comments Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:53:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/we-ate-this-cake About a million years ago, by which I mean last Thanksgiving, I mentioned on Twitter that my cousins had made an olive oil cake for our mothers’ birthday dinner. Our mothers are identical twins, born in the third week of November, which means that our family’s Thanksgiving comes with an extra bonus meal: The Twins’ Birthday. Anyway, I mentioned this cake, and someone – maybe one of you reading today? – asked if I might share the recipe. I said that I would do my best to get it from my cousin Katie, its keeper, which I did, and after bringing it home and accidentally burying it in a stack of papers on my desk for three months, which I’m…

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