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Spring green vegetables and whole soft-cooked eggs eggs, vanilla-flavored vinaigrette June. Juin Is it real? Tomorrow is my older brother B.’s birthday. He will be 43 — and he will probably spend his day in his wonderful garden. A gift. So I can’t believe it’s June! I know, you’ve heard me say this before. But [...]

Shrimp in Coconut Milk Broth for the Boston Globe It’s a good thing that I am still able to make dishes like this for dinner these days. Even better when they go in the Boston Globe, and well, you can enjoy them too. P. and I like Asian food. A lot. Anything cooked in a [...]

Orange-flavored Strawberry and Rhubarb Clafoutis Not long ago, P. asked me whether the verb clafoutir existed in French. I smiled. I found the question so sweet that just for a day, or two, I pretended that it did indeed. It would have read like this: “je clafoutis, tu clafoutis, il clafoutis, nous clafoutissons, vous clafoutissez [...]

Coconut and banana muffins I could hear the rain pat against the window pane. I was sitting at my desk, finishing an article I had been working on, and then I looked at the clock. 5:45. Déjà!I thought. Not much time before I feed and put Lulu to bed and start to think about dinner. [...]