all about braising – Orangette https://orangette.net Fri, 25 Dec 2015 04:00:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 On short notice https://orangette.net/2015/10/on-short-notice/ https://orangette.net/2015/10/on-short-notice/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2015 19:38:00 +0000 It’s hard to start a post when I’m bored with the photograph(s) I have for it. The alternate title for this post is “A Life Fraught with Difficulty, by Molly Wizenberg.” But I am never bored with beans. I don’t remember how I first learned of Molly Stevens and her classic All About Braising: The Art of Uncomplicated Cooking, but if you’ve been around here for any length of time, you will know that it is a longtime favorite. I bought it shortly after it came out, sometime in 2004. I was in graduate school then, planning to become Michel Foucault, albeit with more hair, fewer turtlenecks, and a vastly inferior command of the French language. Like anyone who has tried to read…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2015/10/on-short-notice/feed/ 27 Have your way https://orangette.net/2011/04/have-your-way/ https://orangette.net/2011/04/have-your-way/#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:33:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/have-your-way Quick! It’s almost Thursday, but if you act fast, you can still have a Week to Remember: Step 1: On your day off, clean the apartment you just moved out of. Don’t forget to grab that last load of laundry from the dryer, the way I almost did. And when you sweep the basement, be sure to accidentally dump the entire contents of the dust pan into the bag of clean laundry from the dryer, the way Brandon did. Step 2: Go back to your new home. Feel both triumphant and defeated. Take a shower. Apply a bathrobe. Drink two glasses of cheap prosecco with Campari and a squeeze of orange. Now: try to make it to the dinner table…

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