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Archive for January, 2009

Tagine — You’re It!

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. [...]

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Teleconferencing — Grand Manan Style

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 [...]

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Truly Fowl Holidays

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, [...]

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Happy 2009!

Best wishes, from Grand Manan. (Stanley Beach; -12C (-23C with windchill)).

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