Recipes by We Are Never Full (Page 6)
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Is It Okay to Call Something Meat Salad?While awake in the middle of the night, hoping like hell one’s infant will go back to sleep soon, one experiences a range of emotions, including, but not limited to, joy, frustration, fatigue, anger, sadness, despair and, with any luck, relief. And, as one sits rocking away or pacing incessantly in the inky blackness of the wee hours,… |
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Podcast: Montreal As A ParentAs Montreal braces for its annual mid-winter festival, a lot of which takes place au plein air as they might say, much of the US East Coast braces itself for the kind of frigid, snowy conditions that Montrealers witness 6 months of the year, illustrating just one of the ways they and their city distinguish themselves from the rest of… |
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Moving Forward, Plov-ing AheadIt’s not unusual to get a little cabin-fever during Yuletide as weather, darkness and social engagements restrict one to indoor activities, but that norm has been compounded for us this Christmas by the arrival of our second child just two weeks ago. As anyone who has had infant children knows, social occasions quickly become hassles,… |
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Big Changes, Big Ron and Bunny Chow“There once was a tall bloke from DurbanA Sikh, oft’ seen sporting a turban.A white country loafin curry afloat,was the lunch he’d chase down with a bourbon.”The future is a frustratingly unpredictable thing. Perhaps most frustratingly, when there are predictable events in that future but the circumstances in which you expected them… |
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Don’t Put a Gift Horse in Your MouthLast year there was unprecedented outrage when the news broke that the meatballs being sold by more than one European grocery chain were “contaminated” with horse meat. This was big news this side of the Atlantic for two main reasons: a) the horses in question are likely to have been American horses, and b) because eating horses is… |
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Hyping Thyroids: Warm Grilled Lamb Sweetbread SaladTalk to someone about thymus glands and they will either tell you about their brutal exercise regimen designed to tackle the effects of an under-active one, or if you’re mentioning them in a culinary context, they’ll usually make an appalled face, purse their lips, fan their hands and look away, indicating you’ve just gone one step… |
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Hyping Thymus: Warm Grilled Lamb Sweetbread SaladTalk to someone about thymus glands and they will either tell you about their brutal exercise regimen designed to tackle the effects of an under-active one*, or if you’re mentioning them in a culinary context, they’ll usually make an appalled face, purse their lips, fan their hands and look away, indicating you’ve just gone one step… |
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Aneletti alla Palermitana: Uniquely Sicilian“To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all,for Sicily is the clue to everything.”- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSicily sits apart from mainland Italy, like a rock ready to receive a swift kick from the instep of the Italian boot. Indeed, many Italians would tell you that this is precisely what the… |
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Enfrijoladas! Where Have You Bean All My Life?“Waiter! What is this?”“Um, it’s bean soup, sir.”“I don’t care what it’s been. What is it now?”- bad English jokeOaxaca, in southern Mexico, has the highest proportion of native peoples in the country, and traditional culture is alive to such an extent that an estimated 50% of indigenous people are unable to speak Spanish. The state’s… |
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Kitchen of Lard: Foie Gras with Bacon-Flavored CabbageThe cuisines, if you call them that, of Northern Europe have been maligned, and fairly, in many cases, for years. The food having been considered by some commentators to be so bad that it was posited as a contributing factor to the higher rates of suicide in those areas. Indeed, anyone who grew up on the same sad, grey school lunches… |
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