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papersky last summer, I decided to risk their French toast. It was excellent. Being Quebecois rather than French, they call it pain doré rather than pain perdu; being Canadian, they served it with real maple syrup. More to the point, the raisin bread was good and they soaked it in the right amount of egg-and-milk. (I'm rather picky about this, and most places it comes out either too dry or too soggy for my taste.) The sausages were good too.
It's not a good year for citrus: both clementines and fresh-squeezed orange juice were disconcertingly sour much of the time. Back home, I finally got a crate of really satisfactory clementines, the first since the South African ones I bought in September. I'm going to have to keep going by eye, guesswork, and optimism: these are Spanish and marketed through Ocean Spray, but I had unsatisfactory Spanish Ocean Spray clementines a few weeks ago.
Mustard isn't necessary on pate de canard, but it's not a bad idea either.papersky and zorinth were both skeptical: I'd said yes when the deli worker offered mustard, once we'd sorted out that I was ordering a pate-on-baguette sandwich, not a toasted baguette for my breakfast.
The Pacific Sun tea I brought home with me looks odd. I don't think there was anything blue in the tea of that blend that Papersky gave me. But I got this at the same place. It also didn't taste quite as good, but that could be mood, congestion affecting my taste buds, or subconscious effects of knowing that tea isn't supposed to be blue and that while this does have dried fruit in it I've never seen a dried fruit that's such a bright blue.
papersky last summer, I decided to risk their French toast. It was excellent. Being Quebecois rather than French, they call it pain doré rather than pain perdu; being Canadian, they served it with real maple syrup. More to the point, the raisin bread was good and they soaked it in the right amount of egg-and-milk. (I'm rather picky about this, and most places it comes out either too dry or too soggy for my taste.) The sausages were good too.It's not a good year for citrus: both clementines and fresh-squeezed orange juice were disconcertingly sour much of the time. Back home, I finally got a crate of really satisfactory clementines, the first since the South African ones I bought in September. I'm going to have to keep going by eye, guesswork, and optimism: these are Spanish and marketed through Ocean Spray, but I had unsatisfactory Spanish Ocean Spray clementines a few weeks ago.
Mustard isn't necessary on pate de canard, but it's not a bad idea either.
papersky and zorinth were both skeptical: I'd said yes when the deli worker offered mustard, once we'd sorted out that I was ordering a pate-on-baguette sandwich, not a toasted baguette for my breakfast.The Pacific Sun tea I brought home with me looks odd. I don't think there was anything blue in the tea of that blend that Papersky gave me. But I got this at the same place. It also didn't taste quite as good, but that could be mood, congestion affecting my taste buds, or subconscious effects of knowing that tea isn't supposed to be blue and that while this does have dried fruit in it I've never seen a dried fruit that's such a bright blue.
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Blue things in tea...
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Re: Blue things in tea...
I love Lady Grey too.
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Have you tried Honeybells?