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British Thanksgiving
What’s not to love about Thanksgiving? Americans eat mashed sweet potatoes covered in mini marshmallows, drizzled with maple syrup, then broilled / grilled to a molten goo. This is amazing.
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Tagged Apples, beans, potatoes, pumpkin, stuffing, sweet potatoes, Thanksgiving, turkey
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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Imam Bayildi, the priest wept
Imam bayildi is one of the all time great, most delicious ways to eat aubergine / eggplant.
The name means “the priest wept”, and theories as to why exactly the priest wept abound; possibly he had a young wife whose dowery was mostly paid up in barrels of olive oil. She cooked this dish for him. He loved it. She cooked it again for him. He loved it. She cooked it again, and that was the end of her olive oil dowery. Or possibly the priest cried in sheer pleasure as olive oil dripped down his chin when he took his first mouthful of creamy eggplant, and soft sweet tangle of onions. Continue reading
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Tagged dill, eggplant, Istanbul, lemon, mint, olive oil, onion, parsley, romance, tomato, turkey, vegan, vegetarian
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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Detox Coronation Turkey Salad
Yes, it’s been thanksgiving, but there’s also been a lot of Royal engagement fun occurring. Kate’s blue dress has sold out, the Tesco fake blue dress has also sold out, and the dress in Macy’s that I was intending to … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, Christmas, coronation, coronation turkey, cranberries, detox, Kate Middleton, leftovers, lime, mango, royal wedding, Sara, Thanksgiving, turkey
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The Thanksgiving Plan: Butter Roast Turkey, served with roasted pumpkin, sweet and fingerling potatoes, green beans, apple stuffing, cornbread and cranberry sauce
Total Thanksgiving cooking time=turkey to room temperature time + cooking time + resting time For me, total Thanksgiving cooking time = 30 mins + 2 3/4 hours + 25 mins Therefore if dinner is at 2pm, I need to get … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, cranberry, green beans, how long to cook a turkey, potato, pumpkin, stay sane, stuffing, sweet potato, Thanksgiving, timings, turkey, turkey cooking times
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This dinner is unlikely to get you laid – sorry – Thanksgiving by a Brit – Butter Roast Turkey, served with roasted pumpkin, sweet and fingerling potatoes, green beans, apple stuffing and cranberry sauce
I’m pretty sure that Thanksgiving Dinner never got anybody laid. All the carbs and all the family – it’s a killer combination. Engaged? Possibly. Divorced? So I’m apocryphally told. But laid? Nope. The best we can hope for is that … Continue reading
The Wednesday Tipple – white cranberry cosmopolitans (with baked camembert and homemade cranberry sauce) to cheer up a friend who dated a turkey
“I wouldn’t say it was a good date, really. No.†said friend Sara as we sloshed the white cranberry juice into the shaker. Sara, you may recall, has been taking positive action since discovering herself to be in the middle … Continue reading
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Tagged camembert, cheese, Christmas, cocktail, cointreau, cosmopolitan, cranberry, cranberry juice, food, online dating, recipe, Sara, Thanksgiving, turkey, vodka
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