olive oil – 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 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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