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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 cooker to braise for [...]

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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.

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

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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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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 fit condition to use for food [...]

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