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Rosemary Parmesan Shortbread
Summer draws to a close and our friends Ingyin and Yosi prepare to return to Abu Dhabi and to the new term at NYU Abu Dhabi’s Physics Department. Not quite yet, but too soon. So we planned a fancy dinner … Continue reading
The Wednesday Tipple – Maiden’s Blush, Stilton Crackers, and something to blush about
Our lives and the lives of our friends are currently divided into the Haves and Have Nots: people who paid the extra for HBO, and people who rely on the goodness and charity of those people to invite them over … Continue reading
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Tagged biscuit, blushing, cheese, coyness, fantasy, Game of Thrones, gin, Grange disks, grenadine, pernod, shortbread, vegetarian
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The Wednesday Tipple – Tree Trimming Punch (and vanilla star cookies)
Walking home from choir through midtown I pass a veritable forest of Christmas trees. Some, like the one at Rockefeller that presides over the skaters and the shoppers, are a joyful cacophony of light and sparkle. Others, guarding the banks … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, apple cider, apple juice, biscuit, Christmas, Christmas tree, cinnamon, cocktail, cookie, holiday party, tree trimming, vodka
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The Wednesday Tipple – Warm Bourbon and Milk Punch (and ginger chocolate chip cookies)
Among the many myths about this great city of New York, one of the most enduring is that of crocodiles living in the sewers. Over the summer this story was given a new lease of life when a crocodile / … Continue reading
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Tagged biscuit, bourbon, cat, chocolate, cookie, crocodile, ghost, ginger, milk, office, recipe, snack, urban myth
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The Monday Treat – Cheddar Rosemary Shortbread
Back in New York and back to Huge gossip. Amazing Grace has met a promising man. Following a tricky meeting about maximizing product placement in which Anita had been her usual bitch self, Grace had ignored the looks of her … Continue reading
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Tagged biscuit, cheese, dumped by skype, Grace, lunch, recipe, rosemary, shortbread
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Afternoon Tea (with Palmiers)
After the Americana fest of Labor Day, and with the weather taking a turn away from the brutal to the more civilized, I’m left feeling ever so slightly homesick for an imagined England of afternoon teas on chamomile lawns, of … Continue reading
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Tagged afternoon tea, Alice in Wonderland, biscuit, coffee cup, guest artist, puff pastry, snack, vanilla sugar
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