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When looking at grey November vistas, stunning in their simple beauty… there’s only one question:  guess who’s coming… … to dinner? And a fine dinner they were, too. Didn’t stop me from playing with the “Ducka la Something or Other” recipe — browning the cabbage and onionbefore adding it to the duck in the slow [...]

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I’m sensitive to the mutterings I’ve been hearing lately — that for “knitbot”, there sure isn’t much knitting content on this blog.  Well, this post is not going to change that situation!  If you happen to find yourself considering making Bon Appetit’s Devil’s Food Layer Cake with Pepperming Frosting, there are a couple of things [...]

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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. [...]

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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, [...]

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Merry merry!  Best wishes of the season.  It’s certainly been merry here. An important point about message fragmentation.  Here are 2 very different messages, each starting with the same first chunk: We found the roasting pan we thought we’d given away. We found the roasting pan we thought we’d given away, but it’s not in [...]

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