zucchini – Orangette https://orangette.net Wed, 16 Dec 2015 07:39:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 Doop dee doo https://orangette.net/2015/12/doop-dee-doo/ https://orangette.net/2015/12/doop-dee-doo/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2015 18:53:00 +0000 A couple of years ago, late one winter morning, we were out running errands in the neighborhood, and we stopped into La Carta de Oaxaca, on Ballard Avenue, for an early lunch. June was still in a high chair and not yet fully proficient at chewing anything with crunch, so we ordered their sopa de pollo for her, a rich, brothy chicken soup served in a bowl big enough for mixing cake batter, with the meat still on the bone and big hunks of zucchini, carrot, and chayote. I shredded the meat onto a plate and chopped up the vegetables with the side of my spoon. She ate with her hands, the juices running fast down her forearms, which were then still…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2015/12/doop-dee-doo/feed/ 44 Over and over and over https://orangette.net/2013/09/over-and-over-and-over/ https://orangette.net/2013/09/over-and-over-and-over/#comments Sat, 21 Sep 2013 08:11:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/over-and-over-and-over It was a summer of greatest hits. I’ve always been a redundant cook, content to repeat a couple dozen recipes over and over (and over and over and over), recipes that I know as though they were wired into me, the way I know my name, the alphabet, and lyrics to songs that haven’t seen radio play since Bill Clinton was president. (Wheeeeee…) This summer, I really let myself run wild in that department, which is to say that I have done nothing even vaguely wild, and it has been great. I’ve made meatballs three times now, my best meatballs, which are Cafe Lago’s recipe cooked in Marcella Sauce. There was a batch of Lago’s pomodori al forno, too, using…

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