tomatoes – Orangette https://orangette.net Thu, 06 Jul 2017 20:00:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 Drop everything https://orangette.net/2010/10/drop-everything/ https://orangette.net/2010/10/drop-everything/#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:25:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/drop-everything A year or so ago, when we opened Delancey, I thought our lives were over and we would never see our friends again. Now that I type that out, it sounds like I was channeling Chicken Little, but my thinking wasn’t without reason: in the restaurant business, you work when other people play, and that complicates almost everything. But as it turns out, our friends are more flexible than I had given them credit for, and like us, a lot of them work odd hours. So over the past several months, we’ve begun to tweak our collective habits. I didn’t know this, but dinner parties don’t have to take place at dinnertime. You can also have them in the daytime.…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2010/10/drop-everything/feed/ 92 On cue https://orangette.net/2008/09/on-cue/ https://orangette.net/2008/09/on-cue/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:20:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/on-cue I don’t make many demands around here, but today, I have to. So listen up. (Please.) Get a pen and a piece of paper. Then write the following: 4 large tomatoes 1 yellow onion Arborio rice Fresh basil Breadcrumbs Potatoes Now, go to the grocery store or market or wherever, and buy everything you wrote down. Go on! And don’t forget to preheat the oven. Tonight, for dinner, you are having Luisa Weiss’s tomatoes filled with rice. (With a couple of potatoes on the side.) This photograph hardly does them justice, but trust me: you are going to love these tomatoes. I say that as someone who doesn’t, under ordinary circumstances, even like tomatoes filled with rice. Prior to last…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2008/09/on-cue/feed/ 91 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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