coriander – Orangette https://orangette.net Sat, 09 Jan 2016 20:26:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 A short leap https://orangette.net/2014/03/a-short-leap/ https://orangette.net/2014/03/a-short-leap/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:44:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/a-short-leap Our friend Ben is in town for a visit, and this past Friday, while we waited in line for lunch at Il Corvo – always worth the wait, in case you ever walked by and wondered – I told him about some lamb meatballs that I wanted to write up, but that I had a problem: the only photo I have is of the raw meat and seasonings in a bowl. Ooh, Ben said sharply, sucking air between his teeth, which I took to mean, That’s going to hurt. And yet.  AND YET. Maybe it will ease the blow to know that the reason why I have no meatball photo is that, by the time they’re done cooking, they smell so…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2014/03/a-short-leap/feed/ 65 A public display of chickpeas https://orangette.net/2006/03/a-public-display-of-chickpeas/ https://orangette.net/2006/03/a-public-display-of-chickpeas/#comments Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:01:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2006/03/01/a-public-display-of-chickpeas Under normal circumstances, I try to play it cool. Sure, there’s this guy named Brandon, and I think he’s pretty dreamy and stuff, but most of the time, I try to keep my swooning behind the scenes. Few people look fondly upon public displays of affection—on the Internet or otherwise—and far be it for me, dear reader, to risk spoiling your appetite. But then this guy named Brandon came to town, and one afternoon, he bought me a quarter-pound of culatello. Nothing makes a girl feel prone to public gloating like a present of cured pork from a very handsome vegetarian. And should he then, over the span of ten short days, churn from her kitchen a batch of whole-wheat pita,…

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