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For Christmas, I received one of these:

It’s an Emile
Henry Flame Top Tagine.  Tagine is a North
African pot for producing slow-cooked delicacies, such as one might
experience in Morocco.  “Flame top” is Emile Henry’s special
material — a clay vessel that works on the cooktop, in the oven, in
the fridge etc.  Deeee-lightful.

Oh, and it is perfect tableware, too [...]

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We share an office here, so the rule is that someone who has a
teleconference has to wander off to some other part of the house to
have it.  It’s not all bad — the views are pleasant, and watching
the waves (”~~~~~”) is fun:

Sometimes, there are added distractions — the teleconferencee is not
necessarily the only one getting [...]

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It started innocently enough, with the duck
thing, and slid right along with the roast turkey
challenge.
Then there was the choux done
proper-like:

to accompany the rock cornish hens (stand ins for perdrix this year):

(There is cabbage in there, between the hen-halves & the toast
points:  trust me!).
 
Finally, for good measure, some coq
au vin to round things out.  This [...]

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Best wishes, from Grand Manan.

(Stanley Beach; -12C (-23C with windchill)).

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