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Dinner at Trisha’s
We were still pretty full from lunch at INÉ so Trisha just put together a quick meal for us – some cheese and crackers, fried bresaola and arugula, and potato soup. Delicious as always with Trisha. For dessert, we helped demolish Trisha’s chocolate advent calendar from Harrods, but there was too much even for all…
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Christmas Dinner
One reason I look forward to Christmas dinner is because it’s the one time of the year that Andrea makes her beef wellington with a delicious peppercorn sauce. It starts with a center cut beef tenderloin from our local butcher shop Baron’s Meat. She sears it, slathers it in dijon mustard. She wraps this in…
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Holiday Cookies
My sister always makes a mountain of cookies to give everyone every year and I always get my batch. Here is a sampling of the cookies she sent including some from her cookie contest (the quarter sized ones) as well as some specially decorated by my nieces for me (note the Rick Astley one and…
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Thanksgiving
This year, we went over to Kirsten and Greg’s house for our Thanksgiving meal. Andrea made her decadent potatoes au gratin where she uses morel mushrooms and a cheesy cream sauce using various cheeses including a bit of blue. It’s always a big hit. We also brought along a couple bottles of Croix Pinot, one…
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Lunch at the apartment
Amith invited us over for lunch over at his parent’s apartment and we were excited to go. We of course started with some gin and tonics made with some Japanese Roku gin with some fresh squeezed lime juice. Amith’s dad wanted to put some sprite into our drinks, but Amith dissuaded him from doing that.…
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Hamburgers
Kristine and Charlotte were spending their last night at our place before they flew back to their respective homes. It had been a whirlwind and Charlotte had mentioned how she hadn’t had a burger at all on the trip, so I said we could make them at home, so that’s what we did! Mind you,…
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Beef Brisket
I haven’t made beef brisket for a long time (have usually done pork shoulder, which so easy), so wanted to give it another try. Andrea picked up a nice 4 lb. piece of brisket from Bryan’s Market and made the coffee rub based on a recipe from the Wall Street Journal that has worked for…
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Coffee
We’ve been roasting coffee for more than 15 years. It all started when this coffee shop in Windsor first showed us how you could roast beans with a hot air popcorn popper. I started with one of those from a garage sale from my neighbor, but soon upgraded to a Gene Cafe hot air roaster…
