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thecookbook2018-01-01 12:54 pm
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Happy New Year!
I hope everyone had a lovely New Year's Eve. We celebrated in our usual style, which involved hanging out at home with Netflix and junk food. Today, I've got a bit of family coming for lunch, and there's what I hope will be a splendid and hearty Beef Bourguignon simmering in the oven.
Do you have any New Year's food traditions? Did you make anything particularly impressive over the holidays?
For my part, I attempted a turkey, which I brined, because Martha Stewart. It looked beautiful, but my brine was too salty by half and it kinda wrecked the bird.
Ah, well. They can't all be winners. ☺
Do you have any New Year's food traditions? Did you make anything particularly impressive over the holidays?
For my part, I attempted a turkey, which I brined, because Martha Stewart. It looked beautiful, but my brine was too salty by half and it kinda wrecked the bird.
Ah, well. They can't all be winners. ☺
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Keeping that in mind: although the beef turned out beautifully, the only thing that didn't work that day was our one green offering. Turns out the beans we'd frozen from our summer garden must have been too old as, once cooked, they were completely un-chewable.
If greens on new year's are meant to "invoke prosperity," this seems like an inauspicious sign...