Figs, lavender, and cheese: Sides

SIDE DISHES

Corn pudding

Fava, chive, toasted pinenut salad

Fava, corn, prosciutto, fennel, ricotta salad

Lemon roasted potatoes

Orzo, fava, sauteed squash, tomato, mozzarella salad

Potato salad

Pumpkin sage risotto

Roasted zucchini

Shaved zucchini salad with parmesan and pine nuts

White bean salad with creamy lemon-dill dressing

White nectarine and blueberry salad with wine-cardamom reduction

What I've read

2012
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick
In the Garden of Beasts, Erik Larson
The Last Brother, Geoffrey Strachan
Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively
The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey
Catherine the Great, Robert Massie
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
The Lemon Table, Julian Barnes
2011
The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
Black, White, Other, Joan Steinau Lester
The Kitchen House, Kathleen Grissom
The Yacoubian Building, Alaa Al Aswany
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ranson Riggs
The Cat's Table, Michael Ondaatje
Sarah's Key, Tatiana de Rosnay
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
The Singapore Grip, J.G. Farrell
An Unequal Music, Seth Virkam
Q Road, Bonnie Jo Campbell
City of Thieves, David Benioff
Nightwoods: A Novel, Charles Frazier
The Fall, Simon Mawer
The Paris Wife, Paula McLain
The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits, Emma Donoghue
Mudbound, Hillary Jordan
Zoli: A Novel, Colum McCann
When the Killing's Done, T.C. Boyle
Daughter's Keeper, Ayelet Waldman
The Lotus Eaters, Tatjana Soli
The Empty Family, Colin Toibin
The Hangman's Daughter, Oliver Pötzsch
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Ayelet Waldman
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, David Sedaris
Matterhorn, Karl Marlantes
Slammerkin, Emma Donoghue
Invisible Bridge, Julie Orringer
The Book Thief, Mark Zusak
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
2010
Room, Emma Donoghue
Brooklyn, Colm Toibin
Great House, Nicole Krauss
A Good Fall, Ha Jin
The Land of Green Plums, Herta Muller
I'd Know You Anywhere, Laura Lippman
Strangers at the Feast, Jennifer Vanderbes
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Helen Simonson
Await Your Reply, Dan Chaon
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet, David Mitchell
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven, Susan Gilman
The Search for Delicious, Natalie Babbitt
The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman
Family Trust, Ward Just
Red Hook Road, Ayelet Waldman
Dead End Gene Pool, Wendy Burden
The Siege of Krishnapur, J. G. Farrell
Lark and Termite, Jayne Anne Phillips
The Surrendered, Chang Rae-Lee
Naked, David Sedaris
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, Daniyal Mueenuddin
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Steig Larsson
The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters
Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh
Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks
Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
My Own Country, Abraham Verghese
Little Bee, Chris Cleave
Cloudstreet, Tim Winton
Bright Shiny Morning, James Frey
The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
The Women, T.C. Boyle
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The Glass Room, Simon Mawer
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
Black Swan Green, David Mitchell
We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates
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2009
Let the World Spin, Colum McCann
American Salvage, Bonnie Jo Campbell
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
Home, Marilynne Robinson
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski
And Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris
When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
The Well and the Mine, Gin Phillips
Drown, Junot Diaz
The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
Netherland, Joseph O'Neill
Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson
Talk Talk, T.C. Boyle
Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
The End of Faith, Sam Harris
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2008
Holidays on Ice, David Sedaris
The Saffron Kitchen, Yasmin Crowther
The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
Shadows of a Childhood, Elisabeth Gille
I Was Told There Would Be Cake, Sloane Crosley
Fire in the Blood, Irene Nemirovsky
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
The Night Watch, Sarah Waters
On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
Run, Ann Patchett
The Buccaneers, Edith Wharton
The Tie That Binds, Kent Haruf
Washington Square, Henry James
The Gathering, Anne Enright
Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
Riven Rock, T.C. Boyle
Ghostwritten, David Mitchell
The Tortilla Curtain, T.C. Boyle
Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach
The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
Aloft, Chang-Rae Lee
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
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2007
An Unfinished Season, Ward Just
Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Everyman, Philip Roth
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
Saturday, Ian McEwan
Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky
The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
Man Walks Into a Room, Nicole Krauss
The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards

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