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desperanceIn the mail this morning, a package from myspicesage.com: berbere spice, ground sumac and a freebie taster pack of grains of paradise. My Spice Sage is now officially my favourite-so-far of the mail-order spice merchants.
My Sage Plant is also my favourite of all the herbs in the back yard: it thrives and is beautiful and doesn't need hacking back before it takes over the universe. But is there a linguistic connection between sage-the-plant and sage-the-wise-person? Or is that just coincidence?
We had half a dozen people for dinner yesterday, and I totally faked a chicken tagine, with jewelled rice and green-beans-in-shallot-butter. Also a sourdough ciabatta (that was meant to be ordinary sourdough loaves, only it was way sticky and would never hold a shape so I called it ciabatta instead, and it was good). In the course of this I learned that All-Clad makes or made a tagine with a stainless-steel base and a terra cotta top, which strikes me as the ideal solution. The only one I could find for sale was on E-Bay for $150; I've no idea if that's cheap or the other thing. But I shall pass for now, because not got that. It's going on my wishlist, though.
My Sage Plant is also my favourite of all the herbs in the back yard: it thrives and is beautiful and doesn't need hacking back before it takes over the universe. But is there a linguistic connection between sage-the-plant and sage-the-wise-person? Or is that just coincidence?
We had half a dozen people for dinner yesterday, and I totally faked a chicken tagine, with jewelled rice and green-beans-in-shallot-butter. Also a sourdough ciabatta (that was meant to be ordinary sourdough loaves, only it was way sticky and would never hold a shape so I called it ciabatta instead, and it was good). In the course of this I learned that All-Clad makes or made a tagine with a stainless-steel base and a terra cotta top, which strikes me as the ideal solution. The only one I could find for sale was on E-Bay for $150; I've no idea if that's cheap or the other thing. But I shall pass for now, because not got that. It's going on my wishlist, though.