Toast now serves wine and beer.
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I was gracious enough to let my lunchtime companion, Phil, scoop the food bloggers about the long-awaited opening of the Five Points Cafe. It was actually its second day in operation—I worked from home yesterday so I guess I missed the grand opening. Had a nice turkey sandwich, nothing fancy, although I do still have [...]

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One of the local dining establishments has recently redone it’s wall menu. It’s lovely, but they should have hired a proofreader for this item:
Sweat or Unsweat tea
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Made the double chocolate cherry cookies from the Waldorf=Astoria cookbook today. I’d made Barry run out for creme fraiche and dried cherries and instant espresso and bittersweet chocolate for these back in my christmas cookie marathon, and then never made them. They use very little flour–only 1/2 cup–so they are almost candy or cake more [...]

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…despite coming out with a damn cold. Like I needed an excuse to lie around and be a banana slug all day doing the Jon Carroll xmas quiz.
HINT: banana slug is one of the answers.
Last night’s cioppino was quite lovely. Not having had any christmas eve culinary traditions growing up, I decided to adopt the [...]

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The springerle are complete. Screw the double chocolate cherry cookies until new year.
A few notes for next year:
Either spritz or cookie-cutter cookies are sufficient, not both, unless we have lots of fidgets to give them too. Grown-ups don’t need that many sprinkles, and the christmas-y looking cookies tend to be the least tasty.
Don’t do the [...]

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OK. I’m really going to do the springerle tonight. Even after having pomegranate martinis with the neighbors.
And perhaps tomorrow I will comment on the day’s events chronicled in Mr. D’s blog. I tried to comment on his post 3 times and gave up–I’m too emotional about the whole thing. Right now I still find it [...]

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Cooking was interrupted by a call from my sister, whose holiday cooking plans including cooking a christmas eve turducken. She apparently also has the family recipe for rum bourbon balls, which somehow had gotten lost down in the southern end of the family. A cousin of mine in Florida called the other night to see [...]

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Done with the spice cookies; on to the spitzbuebe.
Noticed that Barry bought a big wheel of brie at Costco yesterday; I may have to try out the brie baker I bought on our honeymoon (which I bought mostly because it was a really nice piece of pottery, not because I have a particular hankering for [...]

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Next day, Christmas Eve Eve. Never did roll out the springerle last night. I must have been plenty tired, since otherwise I don’t think VH1 Classic’s documentary on “stadium rock” would have been such a draw.
Rock last night, but there’ll be plenty of roll today, starting with rolling out the spice cookie dough.
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