The Kitchen Chronicles

Adventures in City Cooking

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Winter Greens Gratin

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Remember that time when, still high on Thanksgiving gluttony and clearly out of my mind, I waxed on and on about the merits of sautéed green beans compared to a cheese and heavy cream-filled vegetable gratin? Well, I urge you to write that off as utter nonsense and turn your attention instead to that very gratin, dressed in its holiday finest.

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Green Beans Cooked in Milk

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If you’re reading this I think I can safely assume you’ve survived the culinary festivities of last week in one, albeit larger, piece. Our delicious Thanksgiving bounty of turkey, butternut squash, risotto, broccoli, at least 3 different kinds of stuffing, numerous pies and desserts and probably a handful of other items that now escape me, was followed by two days of eating large quantities of Chinese food and cold leftover pie out of the refrigerator. Needless to say, it’s probably time to start eating the portions of a regular human, at least for the next couple of weeks until the next holiday launches me into a gluttonous frenzy.

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