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Vet Sunday night I made Cianfotta (mixed vegetables) from Nancy Verde Barr. We took a cooking class with her about 40 years ago at Sakonnet Vineyard in Rhode Island. I learned so much. The basic recipe is garlic, onion, peppers, potato and tomatoes. It gets sautéed on the stove and then simmers to cook the potatoes.This time I added chicken sausage and zucchini. I think I cooked it about 5 minutes too long. We have enough for tonight.

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Cass was such a sweetheart and such a great presence on the old Baking Circle. He will be missed.

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A belated Haapy Birthday BA! I hope you had a great day - what did you have for cake?

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The beautiful wedding was on Saturday the 27th and the rains (heavy, typical kiwi rains) stopped around 2:00 -the wedding was at 3:00

The wedding cake was beautiful and delicious on Saturday, but by Sunday, even though it was well wrapped, it became dry. So, today we are making a trifle. We found out that you can only get Bird's (Byrd's?) custard in British specialty stores as it is way too expensive for regular use. The brand they use here is Edmonds so we're going to give it a try.

BTW it is Tuesday around 9:45 am here

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My mother had a meat grinder that I think she attached to her Sunbeam stand mixer. I have no idea how many times she used it. I periodically think about getting one for my KitchenAid, but then we don't eat that much meat.

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I picked up my friend at the airport in Jacksonville tonight and made us teriyaki salmon, broccoli and brown rice. We leave for New Zealand on Tuesday morning. Will, who seems to have had a bout of food poisoning last night 9he is much better tonight) will follow on Saturday. Nathaniel and Anna get married on the 27th.

And, Happy Birthday chocomouse!

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I just finished up the last of the tenderloin in a sandwich for lunch.

I'm planning on making artichoke dip for tonight/tomorrow. I've been thinking it's the perfect comfort food and I haven't made it in years. Instead of a can of artichokes, I will be using a thawed bag of Trader Joe's frozen artichoke hearts and subbing cheddar for the parmesan. Will will make a sheet pan dinner so that we have it for a couple of nights.

Happy New Year Everyone!

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Stunning!

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I made chicken salad from the leftover tenders that Will grilled on Thursday so we could celebrate Michael's (my DDH) birthday. Nice simple dinner after two bananas days at work. We had a line of guests winding around half the store for 3 hours yesterday and not quite so long today to order lunch. We've been busy before, but nothing like this. We heard the whole island was packed. There were stories of Harris Teeter being so crowded you couldn't find a parking space.next week the island quiets down.

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Sounds wonderful Mike! Merry Christmas.

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We had our Christmas dinner tonight of slow roasted tenderloin with bernaise sauce, roasted potatoes and asparagus. It was delicious.

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I had a tuna sandwich after work and Will had Annie's Mac and cheese with carrots and peas thrown in.

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I will make our tenderloin on Christmas Eve with bearnaise, roasted potatoes and whatever green vegetable on sale looks the best - have no idea about dessert or Christmas brunch at this point.

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Today I made Reindeer Chow for quick gifts for coworkers and neighbors. All I actually cooked was the pecans which I toasted. I'll make a second batch tomorrow.

I kept putting off buying the ingredients because they were so expensive - the cereals for example. Well, yesterday I decided to bite the bullet and pick them up on my way to work. I got lucky - just about every ingredient was BOGO 😁 the M&Ms weren't but they were discounted a little. Harris Teeter is one of the stores where you do not have to buy two items to get the discount which is really helpful when you need only one box.

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