I just ate a sesame-walnut-swiss chard-fresh mozarella flatbread and an umm ali from Sofra and I feel like a giant smear of grease but it was oh so worth it.  Happy happy tummy!
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I am glad the Saints are in the Super Bowl this year, because it means that somebody at work ordered a Saints cake all the way from New Orleans, and it was delicious. Kind of like a giant hot cross bun with tons of icing.

Personally I plan to watch the Puppy Bowl (and Kitten Half-Time Show!), though...
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I think I just ruined a small Le Creuset saucepan :-(((((((  I decided to make my own lip balm, since I am allergic to so many additives.  The directions said to just put the plastic pot of lip balm base in a pan on low heat.  Without thinking I put water in the pan too.  Then I re-read the directions, noticed that they did not call for water, and ( Read more... )

Reason #783 to love Sofra:  the carrot kibbe is not just carrot kibbe, as it looks from the top.  Rather, it is carrot kibbe stuffed with spinach and goat cheese and pine nuts and raisins!!!  My taste buds explode with joy!!!
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I just made the best drink ever, at least this evening, starting with your basic gin gimlet with muddled basil, then topped up with Knudson cucumber essence spritzer.  It is, I say, summer in a glass.  Alongside my basil tomato mozzarella sandwich it is perfect.

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Overall, not as strong as the opening night, but still some really good dancing.  I think overall this is a higher quality group on average than last year's dancers were.  The fact that the judges are able to give more detailed technical critiques is I think testimony to that.
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Sunday night we went to Craigie on Main, just outside of Central Square, and had the six course chef's whim.  I don't think I've ever been in a restaurant with so many waitstaff who were nevertheless so unobtrusive.  Your every need is anticipated.  A server accompanied us from the bar to our table just to carry my drink, and when M asked where the ( Read more... )

I am glad that we made our reservations for Sunday at Craigie on Main yesterday rather than today, as today there was a fine review of it in the Globe.  Sunday night the menu is chef's whim, I'm looking forward to it.

I did wonder if this quote from the review might perhaps be someone I know:

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Usually when I have extra pie dough after rolling out enough to fill a pie pan, I cut out flat pieces of dough and bake them sprinkled with cinnamon sugar.  Right now there is so much sweet stuff in the house that I simply could not do this when I made tonight's sweet potato pie, so instead I sprinkled the pie crust scraps with parmesan, then added ( Read more... )

On Saturday, we went apple picking at Russell Orchards in Ipswich.

You take a tractor-pulled hay wagon to get to the orchard:

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