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Sep 20, 2007 13:40

I am eternally grateful to the cooking of the western Mediterranean for so many things. To the French for convincing me that the only thing you need for a sauce is the fond and a liquid. To the Italians for codifying the process stove top cooking into three words, the battuto, the soffrito, and the insaporire. To the Spanish for making the olive ( Read more... )

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4hour_ramona September 20 2007, 19:06:01 UTC
i had piroshki for breakfast, which my spell-check insists is hiroshima.

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eustacia42 September 20 2007, 21:08:09 UTC
Maybe cause piroshki is "da bomb"?

Ok, THAT was bad. Sorry. I'm gonna go hide from eternal damnation now, kbai..

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nemoalia September 20 2007, 19:12:13 UTC
Oooh -- we must have the same grandma.

Pierogi -- and halushki!

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eustacia42 September 20 2007, 21:07:00 UTC
mmm, pierogi. i've always wanted to try the real thing (i.e. not the store-bought frozen variety).

also... cardamom... ah. :)

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petrorabbit September 21 2007, 14:27:06 UTC
I suspect the frozen ones aren't that bad. It's just dough and potato, seems like that would freeze just fine.

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