cumin – Orangette https://orangette.net Tue, 02 Feb 2016 19:09:47 +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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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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A quiet soup https://orangette.net/2010/09/a-quiet-soup/ https://orangette.net/2010/09/a-quiet-soup/#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2010 07:09:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/a-quiet-soup That was not the week I planned to have. Whoa. A week ago yesterday, I went to bed like I do every night. I read “Shouts & Murmurs” in the New Yorker and wondered, as usual, why it wasn’t very funny. I set my glasses on top of the stack of books on my bedside table and then retrieved them when they fell, as usual, and slid behind the table. I felt pretty normal – which is to say, I didn’t feel abnormal. Until I woke up at 3:30 in the morning, feeling nauseous, and spent the next four days on the couch, trying to get down a glass of Gatorade. You know you’re very sick when even a nature…

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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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