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The ebb and the flood clearing all the channels of your heart
I am often awake at three in the morning, but I am awake at three in the morning tonight because of a pumpkin pie that needed fifteen minutes past its baking time and then another fifteen minutes after that. I kept checking and it kept cooking. It was like Cucurbita scheherazade. It is now cooling on the kitchen counter underneath the lights in the shape and colors of Orion and will be served tomorrow, along with the two apple pies I baked earlier tonight. In past years I have specialized in complicated side dishes, but this year it's just going to be a butternut squash gratin and whatever I figure out to do with the sweet potatoes when I get up—I am thinking there's no reason coconut milk and chipotles can't go together, although I suspect I cannot quite treat them like a curry. I cannot tell if maple syrup would be an inspiration or a disaster. I may just try it and see.
There are things I am thankful for this year. I think I talk about them a lot. I think that's important.
There are things I am thankful for this year. I think I talk about them a lot. I think that's important.
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I'm up because I realised I needed to put the turkey in the brine, and then I thought I might as well try to increase my word count.
I should think coconut milk and chipotles would work.
I've for years done sweet potatoes in coconut cream with allspice, grated dried ginger, and a substantial splash of whatever hot pepper sauce was handy at the moment, and tried it a few times with coconut milk because my source, some chef that one of the NPR shows talked to, referred to both over the course of the interview. If memory serves, the coconut milk tended to separate in the oven, or at least got a grey look to it, but the result was still good; I think I ended up using the mixer to make it into a mashed sweet potato dish.
Good luck, whether you try the maple syrup or not.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
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I didn't re-bake it after adding the coconut milk: it was just puréed and served instantly, which seemed to work for everyone.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
Thank you! Likewise. It was.
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That sounds effective. Mine are peeled, chunked, and cooked in the liquid-coconut product. I might try your method of baking them and then puréeing, sometime.
Likewise. It was.
Thank you! I'm glad of that. It was a good one here as well.
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Grief, my baking-for-birthday cake did that last night. (Pearl barley and blackberries. Would make again. Often.) Sleep becomes weirdly optional.
Methinks sweet potato and pomegranate molasses.
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Phases of the moon. Or solidarity. Baked goods are contrary enough to be sentient.
(Pearl barley and blackberries. Would make again. Often.)
Dude. Would you mind describing how you make a cake out of pearl barley? That sounds fantastic.
Methinks sweet potato and pomegranate molasses.
I will try that next time I have sweet potatoes! I even have some in the house.
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Glad to hear it was a good Thanksgiving. Hearing of happiness is heartwarming.
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That looks great! I am deeply indebted to the Guardian's recipes columns. They always offer more than I can make.
Glad to hear it was a good Thanksgiving. Hearing of happiness is heartwarming.
Thank you. I am glad.
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Sweet potatoes and coconut milk and chipotles sounds good, as does sweet potatoes and coconut milk and maple syrup: but you could try all four, and then I wouldn't have to.
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Thank you! It really was.
Sweet potatoes and coconut milk and chipotles sounds good, as does sweet potatoes and coconut milk and maple syrup: but you could try all four, and then I wouldn't have to.
Well, you should, because they're delicious.
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Have a good Thanksgiving.
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My parents renovated their kitchen a couple of years ago, i.e., we did absolutely everything ourselves, including construction of cabinets and installation of countertops, all major appliances including the refrigerator and the stove, and a constellation in LEDs of the correct color and brightness on the ceiling. I don't use tags, so I'd have to hunt back through old posts to find the saga, but it involved things like finding multiple layers of terrifying linoleum under the floor and discovering that the previous owners had once wallpapered the ceiling in an effort never to have to paint it again (newsflash: since we found the wallpaper under decades of old paint, it didn't work). If you ever need tile grouted or hardwood floors laid, I can do that.
Have a good Thanksgiving.
Thank you! I did!
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I will have to try that next Thanksgiving, because this time around I went with all the ingredients I was wondering about, but it is good to know.
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Hope there are clementines!
Nine
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Thank you. The same to you.
Hope there are clementines!
No, but there was really good pie?
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Thank you! The pie was pronounced the best in years and the day was just really nice on all fronts, including the one where at no point did I have to run around crazily in order to make either food or social interaction happen.
Ah ha. This is the one Sonya Taaffe is always talking about…
Heh. I talk about it because I think it's that good!
Plus the cutest pic of Peter and Helen Cushing ever
OH MY GOD THAT'S CUTE.
THAT'S CUTE EVEN WITH HIS GOATEE.
ALSO ROB AND I WERE KIND OF PHOTOGRAPHED TONIGHT IN THAT POSE EXCEPT WITHOUT THE SHAWL OR THE FACIAL HAIR AND I THINK THAT WAS BEST FOR EVERYONE CONCERNED.
I mean, nice ending for Prince Lindworm and the peasant girl, but I'd have serious qualms about the fact that I knew my husband had eaten two whole other ladies.
I feel like C.S. Lewis must have read this—the Lindworm peeling off his skin sounds like Eustace in The Voyage of the Dawn Trader trying to shed being a dragon. But, yeah. I wonder if you'd always worry someday he'd decide he didn't need to be a lindworm to try it again.
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Happy Thanksgiving - sweet potatoes with coconut and chipotles sounds wonderful..
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Happy Thanksgiving - sweet potatoes with coconut and chipotles sounds wonderful.
They turned out great! I hope you had a good Thanksgiving as well.
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Chipotles and coconut milk sound very promising together!
I love that you share the things that you're thankful for. I enjoy them too. Your happiness is a wonderful thing.
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It is my firm belief it advised others of its kind.
Chipotles and coconut milk sound very promising together!
Promise fulfilled! I'm starting to feel like I should have included the recipe in my post-Thanksgiving post, although it really was those five ingedients; the rest was a matter of proportion and not breaking the Cuisinart.
I love that you share the things that you're thankful for. I enjoy them too. Your happiness is a wonderful thing.
Thank you. I don't know how else to express that. I am enjoying being happy.
[edit] This may be Tiny Wittgenstein: I am glad my happiness is neither boring nor annoying. I do not want to be either of those things, no matter what mood I'm in.
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I completely recommend you try it.
I hope your Thanksgiving was the same!
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I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
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I really did. Thank you. Same.