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Archive for April, 2009

This past week we made a bowl of lovely couscous by steaming it over a pot of chicken soup, along with some really nice lemon roasted chicken.  The couscous is one of the best I have ever made.  Normally I take a box of Niles East Plain Couscous and place it in steam basket above [...]

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With our family still with us, I thought it would be cool to try a Veal Roast.  The roast was pretty simple, except that I decided to make it complex, which was kind of yummy and complex.  I whipped up a batch of caramelized thinly sliced white onions and browned mushrooms.  My mother-in-law peeled the [...]

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We had our family over for the last part of Passover, and so we had a few dinners and lunches with guests and some alone, which were really nice.  Anyway, we served the baked fish, which is described here, along with our now famous stuffed vegetables.  This started a long time ago, when we had [...]

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This past weekend saw us hosting one of our epic Friday night dinners.  We had friends and family over and I was really looking forward to tasting the Ortal Merlot, the best Merlot made in Israel by far.  We have had it a few times, but not for a couple of years now.  We purposely [...]

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The first night of Passover found us with friends and we had the usual four cups of wine ritual, that makes Passover a wonderful precursor for Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings   The wines are listed below in the order that they were drunk, also we had quite a few folks, so please do not think I [...]

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