Spiky Bugger
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Happy Never-Ending Supply of Oil and all that...however you want to spell it.
From my FB posts earlier:
The house is redolent of latkes frying in oil and schmaltz; the carrots are simmering in the homemade chicken soup, waiting to receive my father's homemade matzoh balls; and the pork tenderloin is in the oven (a 17 year old Hamlet-Cox-King family tradition of Jewish culture with a dash of blasphemy - both latkes and pork go nicely with applesauce).
Happy Hanukkah!
And:
Because we are planning to move soon, Charles has been emptying the basement, and found a cache of wine we bought in the early '00s. I opened a bottle of 1999 Mendocino Mourvèdre from Navarro Vineyards for dinner tonight - decanted it and let it breathe - it was an odd color - sort of a brownish red - but it smelled fine - actually, it smelled VERY sweet. When I tasted it, however, it was NOT sweet at all - it was deep, complex, dry without being puckery - in short, delicious!
I don't know if the whites will have survived as well - we'll find out soon.