smitten kitchen – Orangette https://orangette.net Thu, 17 Dec 2015 04:50:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 A short leap https://orangette.net/2014/03/a-short-leap/ https://orangette.net/2014/03/a-short-leap/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:44:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/a-short-leap Our friend Ben is in town for a visit, and this past Friday, while we waited in line for lunch at Il Corvo – always worth the wait, in case you ever walked by and wondered – I told him about some lamb meatballs that I wanted to write up, but that I had a problem: the only photo I have is of the raw meat and seasonings in a bowl. Ooh, Ben said sharply, sucking air between his teeth, which I took to mean, That’s going to hurt. And yet.  AND YET. Maybe it will ease the blow to know that the reason why I have no meatball photo is that, by the time they’re done cooking, they smell so…

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