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Cindy Fuller
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Nov 25
The Extra Ingredient
I made my traditional cranberry-orange relish for Thanksgiving. The recipe (if you can call it that) is insanely simple: 2 cups fresh or frozen cranberries,washed and picked over 1 navel orange, washed and cut into eighths (leave the peel on) 1 cup sugar Buzz the cranberries and orange pieces in the food processor fitted with …
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Nov 24
Happy Thanksgiving 2016
While I’m waiting for stuff to happen in the kitchen (bread to rise, apples to cook down), I grab a cookbook and browse. Today I picked Marcus Samuelsson’s The Soul of a New Cuisine. Samuelsson is an Only in America story: Orphan in Ethiopia gets adopted by a Swedish family and becomes a successful restaurateur in …
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Nov 19
Wednesday Morning
I admit that I am not into rap. The beats are unoriginal and the music is too electronic for my ears. Many of the lyrics are not consistent with my core convictions, to say the least. The female rappers, what few there are, sound as if they’re yodeling around some of the notes rather than …
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Nov 09
The Morning After
As Buffalo Bills fans know all too well, it’s a lot easier to be gracious in victory than in defeat. And so it is this morning. I went to bed before the final results were in on Election Night, believing that finishing Oliver Sacks’s autobiography would be a more pleasant way to spend the evening. …
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Nov 07
One.Day.More
Tomorrow is Election Day. With luck, our long national nightmare will soon be over. This campaign has taken a toll on families and friendships. Soon we won’t have to deal with negative ads – for at least a few weeks. Washington State has a couple of quirks to its election system. We have a top-two …
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Nov 06
Fennel for the French Dinner
We hosted the crew last night for a Provençal French dinner. Julian made a daube (beef stew). I made polenta and fennel salad. We also had cheese and assorted appetizers, including some tinned foie gras that we brought home from our trip. The fennel salad is one I’ve made many times over the years. The …
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Oct 18
Socca
One Provençal delicacy we didn’t try in France was socca, a thin flatbread made with chickpea flour. Given that several of our Friday night regulars are intolerant of wheat or gluten, this seemed like a good recipe to try. Attempt #1. I used the recipe in Mireille Johnston’s Cuisine of the Sun. The batter was …
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Oct 16
Storm? What Storm?
The Seattle area was supposed to get 65 mph winds from a dying typhoon last night. Fortunately, this did not come to pass. We did get plenty of rain, but we never lost power. This morning I found a couple of puny branches from the big ass Douglas fir on our upper deck and the …
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Oct 15
First of the Season
I had a bunch of Jonagold apples that I originally was going to use to make apple crisp. However, the week got away from me, so I opted to get some more apples and make applesauce. I used my tried-and-true method that I outlined last year. This time I added a couple of knobs of fresh …
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Oct 15
Yet Another Tea Rant
I’m used to getting tutti frutti iced tea in Seattle. Today we went to a sports bar and I asked for hot tea. The waitress asked me what type I’d like. “We have orange tea, peppermint tea…” I asked for black tea. She came back with Earl Grey: “This is the closest we have.” The …
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