Moody Food

Pistachio rosewater meringue

23 August 2010

Wouldn’t it be nice, sometimes, to be able to float away on a big soft cushy fluffy cloud, preferably white? I think it would. I can’t say this thought had crossed my mind since the age of six, but looking at this plate of white a week or so ago, it did, Frank Sinatra’s sweet […]

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Potato salad with grainy mustard

17 August 2010

MF has moved house! Sigh. Not really, but I have put my entire life in boxes, and am two weeks away from seeing them again. Why is moving always so traumatic? Even if you know exactly where you will wind up on the other end, and even if you’re excited about the move (I was! […]

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Lapin DB

11 August 2010

What lives in your freezer? Mine has—or rather had—frozen peas, two saddles of rabbit, boned, Mexican-style chorizo, egg whites, dashi (Japanese fish stock), and some spinach, but now it’s just the final two. Do you ever wonder whether the contents of your freezer say anything about you as an eater or a person? I once […]

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Summer squash gratin with garlic + summer savory

6 August 2010

Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear. I try to update this space at least a couple of times per week, but recently it’s been at a paltry one. For those of you who read me regularly, I appreciate your forbearance! To those new arrivals at this space from Columbia, South Carolina, thank you so much […]

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Figs + basil

29 July 2010

My parents had a fig tree at their house when my sister and I were growing up. My sister was too small at that time, but my girlfriends and I would run around the yard in summer and after school. The lower branches from the magnolia trees had been cut down because my mother was […]

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Apricot lavender tart

22 July 2010

The first time I ate an apricot was magic, the way the fruit opened so willingly along its cleft in my hand, the seed falling easily away. It wasn’t messy or overly liquid, but it didn’t feel dry in the mouth. The taste was like peaches, maybe, which I’d had many times before, but different […]

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Chilled lentil soup + peppermint

19 July 2010

I have a habit of reading cookbooks like most people read novels, with the frequent result of winding up hungry. Or – somewhat more embarrassingly – nodding off at night, dreaming of dinner, and then winding up hungry for some dish, ingredient, or another. At 4:30 in the morning. This happened once with lentils. I’d […]

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Ottolenghi love, part II

12 July 2010

I once spent a short amount of time in London working on a book project. To compensate for the brevity of my stay, perhaps, as well as the attending traumas of making frequent moves, the gods gave me the best officemate ever. A German who spoke the Queen’s English better than I ever could or […]

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Wine-poached salmon + sorrel pesto

9 July 2010

This post could also be titled What To Do with Leftover Wine, which I realize may not be a problem for everyone. It usually isn’t a problem for me, either, but there was this very large glass of white wine—a piece of plastic wrap helpfully covering its top—sitting in my refrigerator. The bottle had already […]

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Ottolenghi’s farro + roasted pepper salad

4 July 2010

Happy 4th of July! Or, if you are in Britain and feeling curmudgeonly: Happy Treacherous Ungrateful Insurrectionary Day! Our cousins who feel this way—and particularly that one who wrote to wish me a Happy Treacherous Ungrateful Insurrectionary Day—may be overlooking those somewhat awkward matters of tax (too much) and representation (too little). Lest you think […]

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Pistachio rosewater meringue

Potato salad with grainy mustard

Lapin DB

Summer squash gratin with garlic + summer savory

Figs + basil

Apricot lavender tart

Chilled lentil soup + peppermint

Ottolenghi love, part II

Wine-poached salmon + sorrel pesto

Ottolenghi’s farro + roasted pepper salad

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