Word: ovenings
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...week) I scramble, poach or otherwise cook without salt. They are delectable. The potatoes (with broiled or steamed fresh fish, for example) are incredibly good. And the bread is irresistible. Incidentally, such things as bread and no-salt cereals improve in flavor and texture if baked briefly in the oven...
Brancato paid the fee, but when she looked at the listings, she found not the apartment she wanted, but a flat in Watertown for $340 per month, with a kitchen that consisted of a microwave oven...
...narrow gully bakes like an oven in the fall sun, and the canyon that engulfs it is silent, save for an occasional magpie's cry. Under a juniper, two cowboys hunch for shade and wait for a signal...
...catalogued dozens of local happenings that somehow seemed to happen in different localities all over the country, yarns that are probably untrue but widely retold. There is, for instance, the story of the old woman who, whenever her dog or cat got wet, would dry it off in the oven. Then her children bought her a microwave, with gruesome consequences. Perhaps the most popular American folk yarn, the "vanishing hitchhiker," has been around for decades (centuries, if you count the version in Acts 8: 26-39). It has been updated for the automobile age. A driver picks up a hitchhiker...
...fritz") is intact; and if his optimism is a bit white at the temples, it still goads him on. But Reinhart ultimately comes to believe that life's meaning can be boiled down to the profound couplet: "Nothin' says lovin'/ Like something from the oven." The transformation has affected his creator as well. The tortuous and arcane language Berger displayed in Neighbors has been effectively streamlined. It now breaks for self-examination: "It was ridiculous that I lived almost half a century trying to measure up to the principles of other people ... you change with...