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Best Date Ever

nobody@vox.com(Patti) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:34:35 -0700

Ingredients:

Whole medjool dates
Goat cheese
Bacon

Remove pits from dates and cut each one in half lengthwise. Cut bacon strips in thirds. Stuff each date-half with a little bit of goat cheese, fold in half lengthwise, wrap with a piece of bacon, and secure with a toothpick.

Bake in a 475 degre oven for 5-7 minutes until things are starting to get crisp. Remove from oven, turn the dates over, and then bake for another 5-7 minutes or until the bacon is crisp. This happens pretty slowly in my oven.

I've seen lots of variations on this-- the Epicurious recipe uses parmesan and whole dates, but I found that didn't work very well. Parmesan is too salty, whole dates are too sweet, and 10 minutes was wildly insufficient. I've also had a version that uses smaller dates and stuffs them with chorizo.

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Photographic Silliness

nobody@vox.com(Patti) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:48:54 -0700

There was a perfectly good reason for doing this, and yet it is utter silliness. I had a lot of fun doing it, and only later realized that I'd left thousands of dollars worth of camera equipment hanging from my ceiling for several hours.

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QotD: Very Superstitious

nobody@vox.com(Patti) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:08:32 -0700

Do you have any crazy superstitions?

It's bad luck to be superstitious.

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Spam!

nobody@vox.com(Patti) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:12:41 -0700

I keep getting spammed here, and the reporting mechanism (cut and paste it to feedback) really sucks. Blah.

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