Breads – Orangette https://orangette.net Mon, 15 Feb 2016 18:45:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 I like to imagine https://orangette.net/2015/04/i-like-to-imagine/ https://orangette.net/2015/04/i-like-to-imagine/#comments Sat, 18 Apr 2015 09:26:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2015/04/18/i-like-to-imagine The only bookshelves in our house are in June’s room, one and a half walls of built-ins that bracket the space like a capital L. The previous owner had used the room as an office, as far as we can tell, and we planned to do the same. We set my desk under the window. I had just started writing Delancey then, and I pounded out the early chapters there – or, more often, avoided pounding out the early chapters by watching nuthatches flit around the giant evergreen outside. At some point, we decided that having a baby would be good idea, and to make room for her, we moved my desk to the dining room, replaced it with a crib, and hung…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2015/04/i-like-to-imagine/feed/ 51 The right buttons https://orangette.net/2014/01/the-right-buttons/ https://orangette.net/2014/01/the-right-buttons/#comments Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:53:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/31/the-right-buttons Before we get started: thank you for your comments on my previous post, and for sharing so many good tips and ideas about feeding families. May I say that you all seem like great parents? You seem so sane. (Sanity! Sometimes I think it’s the highest goal.) I’m going to get unbecomingly sappy for a minute and say, yet again, how happy I am to have this space, this community of sorts. I know I’ve said it before, but I think about it even more often than I say it. I also think about leftover oatmeal muffins. I think about leftover oatmeal muffins even more often than I think about oatmeal, which is inconvenient, because you obviously have to have oatmeal…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2014/01/the-right-buttons/feed/ 101 They wake me up https://orangette.net/2011/03/they-wake-me-up/ https://orangette.net/2011/03/they-wake-me-up/#comments Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:53:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/they-wake-me-up Lately we’ve had a lot of friends passing through, lots of changes of sheets on the guest bed. Sam has been around a bit. Ben, our friend who moved here a couple of years ago but was quickly wooed away by work, is doing a short-term gig nearby and comes around on his days off. And Ryan, who also lived here briefly and was wooed away, is flying in tonight for a visit. The bourbon in the bottle is two fingers lower than it was last week, and the apartment feels nice, lived-in. Most days, days when we don’t have house guests, I spend long stretches of time alone, working. I like the quiet. I don’t need a lot of…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2011/03/they-wake-me-up/feed/ 130 Yes, already https://orangette.net/2011/01/yes-already/ https://orangette.net/2011/01/yes-already/#comments Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:20:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/yes-already Well. The good news is that I’m making headway in my book proposal. I was working on it at a cafe on Saturday afternoon, and I could actually see it taking shape, right there in front of me. I love that feeling. I was absolutely elated. I lost all sense of time. I was in it up to my eyebrows. And I must have looked it, too, because as I was packing up to leave, the girl sitting next to me commented politely that I must have gotten some very good work done, because I was staring at my computer so intensely. And I decided that from now on, I should work only in the privacy of my home, so…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2011/01/yes-already/feed/ 105 And try to be cheerful https://orangette.net/2011/01/and-try-to-be-cheerful/ https://orangette.net/2011/01/and-try-to-be-cheerful/#comments Sun, 16 Jan 2011 06:56:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/and-try-to-be-cheerful Okay. This year, I’ve decided, is going to be the year of The Breakfast Book. I’m allergic to resolutions, so let’s not use that word. Let’s just say that if I do nothing else in 2011, I would like to spend more time with one of the worthiest books on my shelf, one that has never done me wrong, one authored by she of the famous yeasted waffle, the esteemed Ms. Marion Cunningham. There is no one I trust more on the matter of breakfast. There is also no one else that I know of who has managed to wedge a treatise on manners into a chapter on quick breads. Witness a selection from “Breakfast Table Civility and Deportment” (page…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2011/01/and-try-to-be-cheerful/feed/ 195 It is called toast https://orangette.net/2010/08/it-is-called-toast/ https://orangette.net/2010/08/it-is-called-toast/#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:30:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/it-is-called-toast Thank you for the many cheers and kind words about our anniversaries. You are so good to us! We went to Bellingham to celebrate over the weekend – which, in our world, means Monday and Tuesday, the days when Delancey is closed – and I regret to report that the dinosaur graffiti has been painted over. There’s a cafe there, and they put in some outdoor seating, so I guess they wanted to spruce the place up. The only good news is that the graffiti was painted over badly, with white paint, so if you squint, you can still make out the curving neck of the brontosaurus. Shine on, dinosaurs! I should also report that I have made a discovery,…

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