i love you readers – Orangette https://orangette.net Wed, 16 Dec 2015 00:01:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 The satisfaction https://orangette.net/2014/10/the-satisfaction/ https://orangette.net/2014/10/the-satisfaction/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2014 23:02:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/the-satisfaction In early September, a kind reader in north-central Idaho left me a comment. Her name was Michele, and her Italian prune plum tree was promising a bumper crop: did I want some? This kind of thing does not happen all the time, or ever, so I said (yelled) yes. That is how it came to pass that last week, a box showed up on our stoop, containing almost ten pounds of plums cushioned in bubble wrap. I hauled it to the table and let it sit there for a couple of days, admiring it like an expensive flower arrangement, patting it softly like June’s head, before getting down to work over the weekend, freezing a pound of halved plums for…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2014/10/the-satisfaction/feed/ 71 But the soup https://orangette.net/2013/11/but-the-soup/ https://orangette.net/2013/11/but-the-soup/#comments Fri, 01 Nov 2013 22:39:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2013/11/01/but-the-soup Would you look at that! While trying, and failing, to start this post about squash soup, I accidentally ate an entire chocolate chip cookie dough ball from the Delancey walk-in! Let’s get right to it. I’ve been wanting to tell you about this soup for more than a week now, but a certain crazy-haired dancing maniac of a young person is getting a molar, or something, and has been waking up veeeerrrrrry early and then spending a large portion of the day crawl-running around the house/park/bathtub/Delancey, panting, grunting, and generally looking and acting a lot like Animal. After she goes to bed, I make myself a drink, warm up some soup, open a book, close the book, and sleep like a dead person.…

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