vanilla – Orangette https://orangette.net Mon, 15 Feb 2016 19:39:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 A new reason https://orangette.net/2013/08/a-new-reason/ https://orangette.net/2013/08/a-new-reason/#comments Sat, 10 Aug 2013 08:41:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/a-new-reason I just sat down, looked at the calendar, and noticed that it’s August 9th. June is eleven months old today. On Monday, Delancey will be four years old, and on Thursday, Essex will be one.  Is this what happens when you become a firm-and-fast adult? You’ve done enough stuff and crossed paths with enough people that at some point, each day comes with a birthday or anniversary? I mean, in addition to bills and tax deadlines and increasingly tight hamstrings? In other words: there’s always a new reason to eat cake, isn’t there?  Or drink wine?  Both? I have a very cold bottle of riesling in the refrigerator. But there is no cake here, and that is because there is no…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2013/08/a-new-reason/feed/ 107 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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]]> https://orangette.net/2011/12/to-poach-a-pear/feed/ 164 A lot of rhubarb https://orangette.net/2010/03/a-lot-of-rhubarb/ https://orangette.net/2010/03/a-lot-of-rhubarb/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:25:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/a-lot-of-rhubarb I am reliably fickle about rhubarb recipes. Every spring, I think, I am destined to fall for a different one. At this point in my life, if all goes well and life expectancy charts are accurate, I probably have about fifty springs left, which means fifty more rhubarb recipes to love. The fifty springs part is sort of depressing, but on the upside, it’s really quite a lot of rhubarb. I’m looking forward to it. In the meantime, I am pleased to announce that this spring, my allegiance lies in a pot of roasted rhubarb with white wine and vanilla bean. Eaten cold, ideally. This particular recipe was inspired by a series of seasonal recipe collections called Canal House Cooking,…

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