pears – Orangette https://orangette.net Thu, 24 Dec 2015 21:48:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 It made an impression https://orangette.net/2013/10/it-made-an-impression/ https://orangette.net/2013/10/it-made-an-impression/#comments Sun, 06 Oct 2013 21:03:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/it-made-an-impression I had to get a new computer last week, one of few life events with the power to make a person feel both elated and completely bankrupt. After I brought it home, while I waited for my blood pressure to stabilize, I combed through the files that had been on my old computer and happened to find a document that I had forgotten, a recipe for a brown sugar clafoutis with pears. BROWN SUGAR CLAFOUTIS! WITH PEARS! I made the clafoutis last week, and again yesterday, and then I hustled over here to tell you about it with an oddly colored iPhone photo of my leftovers. I had clafoutis for the first time when I was 23. It came to…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2013/10/it-made-an-impression/feed/ 135 To poach a pear https://orangette.net/2011/12/to-poach-a-pear/ https://orangette.net/2011/12/to-poach-a-pear/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 05:36:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/to-poach-a-pear My mother is usually the one who makes poached pears. I have a photo of her in an old family album, holding a platter of them. By the length of her hair, I’m guessing that the year was 1982. My father must have snapped the picture as they were leaving for a holiday party. That was the kind of thing he liked to do. She’s standing in the wood-paneled den of the house we lived in until I was 13, wearing what appears to be a sand-colored fur jacket. She must have curled her hair with hot rollers, because it sits on her shoulders in soft loops, and where she’s pinned it back above her left ear, you can see…

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