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  1. Did you?

    I was taught to order it “bleu mais chaud” or “crousty bleu”.   Also helpful  if you want calves liver done right.

  2. My same-old, same old.    Old fashioned rolled oats, covered with water, heavy shower of salt, nuked 2.5 minutes.    Blanketed with heavy cream.    Super strong coffee with milk.    Several NYC puzzles.   Bracing start to the day.   Which occasionally involves heading back to bed for another hour of cossetted sleep.  

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  3. On 1/17/2025 at 2:06 AM, sourbroughten said:

    wait...are most of those CD's unopened?

    To a collector, an item in its original, sealed container ("mint in box") is worth many orders of magnitude more than an open albeit "like new" identical item.   

  4. I am heartbroken.    I wondered why last week I kept hearing Pat Meheny’s “Last Train Home”, a track we both loved.   We never met but my life is richer for our minuscule but not insignificant friendship.  

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  5. On 1/10/2025 at 5:13 PM, Wilfrid said:

    This has happened to me before but not for a long time. I am headed down Broadway around 64th Street and two people stop and ask me if there are any good restaurants around here. "Like burgers and fries?"

    Rendered speechless, of course. I pointed them downtown and assured them they would find something.

    My drop-jaw tourist question was at Union Square where I was asked for a Starbucks and a Pottery Barn.    For these you come to San Francisco?

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  6. You’re right.   Urban fires used to be single dwellings, hastily put out by city firefighters.    But these wind-driven fires are wildfires, leaping rooftop to treetop.   Friends in Santa Monica are panicked about their several blocks lined with palm trees, ready to act as matches.

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  7. Our Christmas dinner was last night, Christmas Eve.    Son and 3 sprogs came over mid-afternoon to construct the annual croquembouche.    Excellent tower resulted.    My back was screaming all day, so I cut courses and dishes from the menu in order to avoid disaster.   As it were, the standing rib was undercooked, the Yorkshire stuck to the bottom of the baking dish and the peas I reached for in the freezer turned out to be edamame.    But everyone refrained from comment and a loving time had by all, of course made possible by the Hoovered-up croquembouche.   Thank God it's over and today has been more or less one extended albeit segmented nap.

    Son is returning with dim sum this evening.   Thank God for good kids!

    Ho, ho, ho to all!    May your roast be cooked to your liking!

     

     

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  8. 13 hours ago, Wilfrid said:

    Le Jardin...

    As the menu description of coq au vin begins "oven roasted chicken," someone else needs to bat for the team here.

    Didn't Antoine Westermann cook his famous roast chicken by "boiling" it before roasting?     Reportedly incredibly juicy; IMHO, a great way to make chicken broth => toss the bird.

  9. On 11/22/2024 at 8:00 PM, Wilfrid said:

    Scissors or very sharp knives, yes. Do these brands do panel tests to see if their shit packages will open as intended?

    I've resigned myself to having entered my second childhood.    What else explains that 90% of shelf goods now come in "childproof" packaging.   

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