Life in Times New Viking-land, a state-of-mind located the slightest bit north (if at all) of Columbus Ohio, is quite busy these days. And by the look of their newly confirmed tour dates it’s not slowing down anytime soon. More shows will be added so fear not if you don’t see your city listed, it may be added shortly. If your city is listed well then you have no excuse, see you at the show! TNV will be hitting the road with The Axemen, one of their favorite bands from New Zealand, from the San Francisco show (10/29) through the rest of their tour.
Also because everyone around here couldn’t be more excited about TNV’s new album, Born Again Revisited (out 9/22/09), we’ve lined up an extremely generous pre-order package. We’re talking 7″s, a poster, and a great price. But like Cash For Clunkers, this deal won’t last forever. Check out the Matador Store to place your order today!
Wed-Oct-14 Columbus, OH The Summit
Thu-Oct-15 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle
Fri-Oct-16 Urbana, IL The Courtyard Café
Sat-Oct-17 Grinnell, IA Grinnell College
Sun-Oct-18 Minneapolis, MN 7th St Entry
Mon-Oct-19 Fargo, ND The Aquarium
Thu-Oct-22 Seattle, WA Vera Project
Fri-Oct-23 Olympia, WA The Northern
Sat-Oct-24 Portland, OR Berbati’s Pan
Thu-Oct-29 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill
Fri-Oct-30 Santa Cruz, CA Crepe Place
Sun-Nov-01 Los Angeles, CA Echoplex (Part Time Punks)
Tue-Nov-03 Phoenix, AZ Modified Arts
Fri-Nov-06 Dallas, TX The Lounge on Elm St.
Sat-Nov-07 Austin, TX Fun Fun Fun Fest
Mon-Nov-09 Memphis, TN Hi-Tone
Wed-Nov-11 Birmingham, AL Bottletree
Thu-Nov-12 Atlanta, GA Star Bar
Fri-Nov-13 Chapel Hill, NC Local 506
Sat-Nov-14 Baltimore, MD Sonar
Sun-Nov-15 Philadelphia, PA Kung Fu Necktie
Wed-Nov-18 New York, NY Mercury Lounge
Thu-Nov-19 Brooklyn, NY Union Pool
Fri-Nov-20 Hoboken, NJ Maxwell’s
Sat-Nov-21 Boston, MA Great Scott
Thanks to the folks at BuyCostumes.com, for a mere $34.99 your kids can celebrate All Hallows Eve done up like the bastard love kid of Wattie and one of the stars of “District 9″. There’s no truth to the rumor, btw, the young model above was the subject of a recent bidding war won by Fat Possum. There’s even less truth to the rumor Matador made the higher offer, but talks broke down over choice of producer. (costume link courtesy Henry Owings)
Folks, we could not be more excited about the September 22nd release of Born Again Revisited by Times New Viking. The melodies on this record are as catchy as any the band have written (and we defy you name a group writing catchier jams than TNV), but there’s also a depth to the album that truly rewards repeated listens.
Not just any live performance, this is (correct me if I’m wrong B/J/A/Dave Martin) the first ever acoustic performance by Times New Viking. Shot in Chicago in a rogue run at the Pitchfork Music Festival by Babelgum and Dig For Fire, the performance also appears in an episode of Babelgum’s Ice Cream Man series.
As Dave would say (has said), Times New Viking are unSTOPPable!!! And people, you can pre-order the record for $12 on CD and $13 on vinyl! And BOTH versions come with TWO 7″s and a special poster. Best deal ever, no jk.
….what John Stossel did for “Doctor D” David Schultz. OK, it’s friendlier than that. Anytime a national news program uses words like “sanctum sanctorum” and “late to the party” in relation to Yo La Tengo, we could not be more pleased.
(ADDENDUM : not to look positive media coverage in the mouth or anything, but please accept our apologies in advance for the advertisement that plays prior to the YLT/ABC clip. Blackberry Loves U2. U2 Loves The Virgin Prunes. Does Blackberry love the Virgin Prunes? You can’t presume anything.)
It’s not too late to preorder Popular Songs via Buy Early Get Now. As of today all BEGN participants can download the first of two bonus mp3s, a demo version of “Nothing To Hide.” They also get a full album stream, a poster, a bonus LP, and a copy of Popular Songs on their doorstep on release day, September 8th.
After a day off, Jay Reatard’s FREE, all ages, West Coast, Record Shop Tour (try saying that 5 times fast) is back in action tonight. If you’re in Portland, OR we highly recommend you swing by Jackpot Record’s downtown store at 6pm. Everything we’re hearing from fans, record store owners and Jay himself is that these in-stores have been really fun, really loud, and really crowded. And well why shouldn’t they be. Jay’s got a terrific new album to celebrate and is one of the best performers around these days.
And a reminder for all of you in the Northwest, Jay invades a city/record store near you this week. You’ve been warned!
It’s not a surprise if we tell you what you’re getting. But if this party is gonna be two and a half hours long, I hope there’s plenty to drink of enthusiastic people in attendance.
Jay’s amazing new video is currently embroiled in a Battle Royale with MTVU rotation at stake. I would make a joke about the bands Jay is up against, but I’ve never heard of any of them.
Please visit “The Freshmen” site and vote for Jay. Over and over again. It’s quick and easy. With your help Jay can infiltrate the hearts and minds and heads of college students everywhere.
Greetings from the Big White Van (whom the rental company named ‘Beth’),
So we’re officially halfway into the instore tour. 5 down, 5 to go. SoCal is in the bag and we’ve made our way north where it feels like it’s friggin October. Nobody told us it was going to be 55 degrees in August. We’re cold. A shopping day is very much in order. Anything with sleeves is tops on the menu. We’ve switched from three Mexican meals a day to three Thai meals a day. Sonic Youth, Faust, Adam Franklin, Eric’s Trip and Naked Raygun have dominated the stereo. We haven’t played the Bass Fishing video game the the rental company gave to us. A fuse blew on Jay’s amp. Twice. We got free t shirts. We got lost. The Big White Van’s battery died. And that millionaire guy killed his model girlfriend.
Are you sorry you missed one or more of the free, all-ages shows Jay’s been destroying? Well you should be. Cause they’ve been awesome. Amoeba Hollywood, Fingerprints, M-Theory, Streetlight and Amoeba SF were all packed to the gills with fans who certainly walked away satisfied. And Amoeba Berkeley, Jackpot, Easy St., Sonic Boom and Zulu should prove no different.
So if you see the Big White Van flowing through your town, be sure to follow it to the next stop for some ear-bending rock.
If you grew up in New England, it’s very difficult to stomach what passes for chowder in the rest of the country. Thick white concoctions packed with cornstarch and a few unidentifable clams, or worse, tomatoes. True chowder is buttery and only barely thickened by the crumbling of the potatoes. Milk or at most, light cream, are the dairy ingredients, and the flavor is based on salt pork and the freshest seafood you can buy.
Top seafood chowder can be had at the Maine Diner in Wells, ME – a day trip from Boston. This chowder was based on their recipe, with some hints from John Thorne’s Down East Chowder (since reprinted in the sublime Serious Pig. Since good salt pork is impossible to find in New York (if anyone has a source, please post), we used nitrate-free bacon from Vermont, blanched to remove as much of the smoke flavor as possible. Potatoes are ideally from northern Maine, Aroostook County, but if you can’t find them, use small yellow potatoes such as creamers. They need to be firm, not crumbly like Idaho or russet potatoes. Seafood was the picked meat from a whole lobster (discarding the tomalley), rock shrimp, medium scallops and cherrystone clams. None of this was ideal except for the excellent scallops – you want a lobster right out of the Penobscot, tiny coldwater Maine shrimp, and steamers or soft-shell clams rather than cherrystones.
The lobster bodies were simmered in water to make a stock, and the other seafood was cooked in a strainer in the same water. Meanwhile the blanched bacon was rendered and fried. One diced onion is added to the bacon frypan along with a half stick of butter, and fried until translucent. The potatoes were chopped into half-inch cubes and boiled until cooked but still firm. Lobster shells continued to simmer until close to suppertime, then the broth strained off along with the grit at the bottom, and reduced a bit. 2 cups milk and 2 cups light cream were then added slowly. The translucent onions, butter and blanched bacon are added to the milky broth, and simmered – the seafood goes in at the last minute, along with salt to taste. One eater preferred some fresh ground pepper in his bowl. Common crackers should be sprinkled on top, but since these no longer seem to be made, we used non-salted oyster crackers instead. The result was sublime, as you can see from the photos.
Catalog number OLE-896 is Times New Viking MOVE TO CALIFORNIA 7″, slated to come out on September 8. The four song 7″ contains two tracks from the upcoming BORN AGAIN REVISITED LP, those being “Move To California” and “City On Drugs,” plus two songs from the coveted STAY AWAKE REVISITED cassette, namely “Pentagram” and “Teen Spirit In Hell.”
Preorder the new album, in stores September 22, and get this 7″, plus a copy of last year’s STAY AWAKE 7″, and a free poster, all for only $13 – while supplies last.
Download the MP3 of “Move To California” here, and enjoy your weekend:
We have an old saying around Matador that “if loving Indie Retail is right, well then we don’t want to be bothered”…wait I’m not sure that’s actually the official company line. It’s early, I may have that wrong.
What I do have right though is that The Cave Singers will be in Bellingham, WA today. At one of our favorite indie record shops, Everyday Music, to continue celebrating the release of their new album Welcome Joy. So if you’re in Bellingham today swing by for an early evening jam session that is sure to send you into the weekend on the right note.
Anyone looking for their own copy of Welcome Joy should definitely check out the Matador Store to order a CD or LP!
With apologies to Pen & Pixel, Dean and Robby did a fantastic job with the new Matador label advertisement, currently scheduled to run in trade publications this autumn. Chris Lombardi has hung out with some pretty wild characters in his time, but rumor has it he was nearly mauled to death during the above photo session.
(sorry, I was thinking of the Wild Dogs album on Shrapnel! )
And it looks and sounds incredible. Heavy-duty gatefold sleeve printed at Stoughton. Two HQ-180 gram LPs pressed at RTI. Four custom Matador labels based on classic record labels of the distant past.
The album artwork is built around sculptures by Dario Robleto. On the front, At War With the Entropy of Nature / Ghosts Don’t Always Want to Come Back (2002) depicts a cassette made out of carved bone and bone dust from every bone in the body, trinitite (glass produced during the first atomic test explotion, from the Trinity test site in 1945, when heat from the blast melted surrounding sand), metal screws, rusty and typeset. Two other works appear on the interior gatefold and the back cover.
The album comes with an MP3 download coupon for all 12 songs – 74 minutes of music.
Click on the images for full-size shots.
If you preorder the album as part of Buy Early Get Now, you’ll get an additional vinyl LP of gorgeous, wonderful instrumental score composed and performed by Yo La Tengo for the motion picture Adventureland. This LP is exclusive to this promotion and has not been released in any form before. You’ll also get two bonus MP3s, a free poster, and other surprise extras.
You can also choose to preorder the record separately, without participating in Buy Early Get Now.
Preorder from Other Music (Buy Early Get Now version)
In celebration of their new album, Welcome Joy, the Cave Singers are bringing their music to the people. Anyone in Portland, OR today should swing by one of our favorite indie record shops, Music Millenium on E. Burnside, at 6pm to catch a FREE, all ages performance by the Cave Singers. If last night’s Easy Street in-store in Seattle is any sort of preview, tonight’s performance should be a pretty rockin’ and fun time.
Interested in landing a copy of Welcome Joy for yourself? Just visit the Matador Store and order your very own CD or LP.
(Ayal Senior’s YouToob shots of SY at Toronto’s Massey Hall, June 30, ’09)
No sooner than we announced Sonic Youth were playing Boston’s Wilbur Theatre on November 23 than an internal message was circulated stating said date was not supposed to be revealed to the public for another week. Good luck getting the genie back the bottle — it’s a slippery slope from a Matablog post to a mention on The View or an angry editorial from Tass.
Anyhow, even if the incidents are completely unrelated, we’ve learned today that Sonic Youth have added another Boston show (again, at the historic Wilbur Theatre) on November 22. If you wanna give me all the credit, I’m happy to take it. There’s nothing more important to us than THE PUBLIC’S RIGHT TO KNOW.
The Institute of Contemporary Art and Harborwalk Shuffle are hosting two events the next two Thursdays for new Matador releases from 6-830pm.
This week: Yo La Tengo Popular Songson August 20 – come celebrate & check out the new album + enter to win a pair of tickets to the Wibur Theatre YLT show on 9/16/09 !
Next Week: Hosted by NEWBURY COMICS on August 27 – Listen & celebrate Mission of Burma’s new album The Sound The Speed The Light – First 50 people to arrive receive a FREE 7″ with a VERY SPECIAL surprise inside you don’t want to miss!!
It’s all love at Matador, all the time, and today is no exception. Two of our finest purveyors of rock and roll have teamed up (Times New Viking – along with directors Pelham Johnston and Brandon Reichard – took the driver’s seat on this one, with Yo La Tengo supplying the tunage and the inspiration) for a video that immediately takes its rightful place in the pantheon of Matador and Yo La Tengo classics.
Our friends at AOL Spinner bring us the “Nothing to Hide” collabo, a celebration of the upcoming full-length releases from both bands: “Nothing to Hide” can be found on Yo La Tengo’s Popular Songs, out September 8th (pre-order action), and Times New Viking unveil Born Again Revisited September 22nd (you will need to OWN THIS ALBUM, it’s a stone-cold sucker-punch, best-of-their-career stylez). Pre-order Born Again Revisited from the Matastore and receive TWO free TNV 7″s and a free poster. Yeah, I hyper-linked it twice. Born Again Revisited is that essential.
Absolutely killer 7″ double A-side single, both tracks not on the upcoming The Sound The Speed The Light (Oct 6), so grab this now.
If you’re in Boston, check out the Album Listening Event at the Institute Of Contemporary Art on Thursday, August 27, 6-8:30 PM. 100 Northern Avenue, Boston MA 02210 www.icaboston.org.
There are two upcoming shows – and keep your eyes peeled for Fall touring plus more dates in the New Year:
Sat, Sep 5 – Cleveland OH – Case Western Reserve (Mather Memorial Bldg)
Sun, Sep 6 – Pittsburgh PA – Club Cafe
The long-awaited second proper album from the Memphis songwriting genius fully lives up to expectations with twelve achingly perfect songs – “handmade,” as Jay said in the New York Times this weekend.
Jay starts a 10-city, free all-ages tour of record stores up the West Coast, starting at Amoeba Hollywood tonight at 6 PM. That’s 6400 W. Sunset Blvd. at Ivar, Los Angeles CA 90028, www.amoeba.com.
Here are the rest of the shows – don’t miss them, Jay always gives his ALL:
Tue, Aug 18 – Los Angeles CA Amoeba Hollywood – 6 PM in-store performance
Wed, Aug 19 – Long Beach CA – Fingerprints – 7 PM in-store performance
Thu, Aug 20 – San Diego CA – M-Theory – 7 PM acoustic in-store performance
Fri, Aug 21 – Santa Cruz CA – Streetlight – 7 PM in-store performance
Sat, Aug 22 – San Francisco CA – Amoeba SF – 6 PM in-store performance
Sun, Aug 23 – Berkeley CA – Amoeba Berkeley – 6 PM in-store performance
Tue, Aug 25 – Portland OR – Jackpot Records – 6 PM in-store performance
Wed, Aug 26 – Seattle WA – Easy Street – 7 PM in-store performance
Thu, Aug 27 – Seattle WA – Sonic Boom – 7 PM in-store performance
Fri, Aug 28 – Vancouver BC – Zulu Records – 8 PM in-store performance
Seattle’s Cave Singers also release their second album, the deliciously autumnal Welcome Joy, today. They are also making 3 free, all-ages live appearances at stores this week, and their live performance is not to be missed, so if you’re in the Pacific Northwest, get to these shows:
Tue, Aug 18 – Easy Street Records – Seattle WA – 7 PM
Wed, Aug 19 – Music Millennium – Portland OR – 6 PM
Fri, Aug 21 – Everyday Music – Bellingham WA – 6 PM
Finally, don’t forget our next release date, Tuesday, September 8, when Yo La Tengo’s masterpiece Popular Songs comes out:
Click here to preorder the regular digital album on iTunes with one bonus track.
And click here to preorder either the regular album (in any format) from the Matador Store, or to take advantage of Buy Early Get Now and get it immediately with a bonus vinyl LP and other extras.
Kurt Vile, with his band The Violators in tow, will be stopping by WFMU to play some songs live on The Brian Turner Show on Tuesday, August 18th, at 3 PM Eastern time. That’s tomorrow, for those of you without access to a calendar.
Tune in to WFMU on the radio dial at 91.1 FM (NYC/East Central NJ) and on WMFU, 90.1 FM (Hudson Valley, Lower Catskills, Western NJ), or online at wfmu.org.
(Lee, Thurston and Kim, being grilled by Matson On Music’s Andrew Matson. Video courtesy KEXP)
Lest anyone suspect Sonic Youth’s ’09 USA touring would conclude with October 4th’s appearance at Austin City Limits, the band have just added a pair of Eastern dates ;
Sat-Nov-21 New York, NY Terminal 5 (with Dinosaur Jr.)
Mon-Nov-23 Boston, MA Wilbur Theatre
Thanks to blogs.nashvillescene.com for the picture
Don’t forget, kids, tomorrow marks the first show of Jay Reatard’s highly anticipated West Coast Instore Tour.
So if you find yourself bogged down by summer in one of these little not-so-out-of-the-way hamlets up and down the West Coast, be sure to come out, check a FREE ALL AGES instore and pick up Jay’s newest record Watch Me Fall.
August:
18th – 6pm @ Amoeba Music Hollywood (LA)
19th – 7pm @ Fingerprints (Long Beach)
20th – 7pm @ M-Theory (San Diego)
21st – 7pm @ Streetlight Records (Santa Cruz)
22nd – 6pm @ Amoeba Music San Francisco (duh)
23rd – 6pm @ Amoeba Music Berkeley (again…)
25th – 6pm @ Jackpot Records (Portland)
26th – 7pm @ Easy Street Records (Seattle)
27th – 7pm @ Sonic Boom Records (Seattle)
28th – 8pm @ Zulu Records (Vancouver)
And if free all ages instores don’t whet your palette, maybe this will………………..
Over the past 18 months, we’ve encountered a series of maddeningly limited vinyl and cassette releases* from the fantastic Philadelphia outfit, Cold Cave. With records on Dais, Hospital Productions and What’s Your Rupture, Cold Cave effortlessly marry elements of experimental noise, sound collage and synth pop. Last month, they released their debut longplayer and one of the most exciting debut albums we’ve heard, ‘Love Comes Close’, on their own publishing house, Heartworm Press. Not surprisingly, it sold out immediately.
We are happy to announce that Matador will be re-releasing ‘Love Comes Close’ worldwide on November 3 as well as additional odds and ends to be announced shortly.
Cold Cave is led by musical journeyman Wesley Eisold and is joined by an orbiting line-up that includes fellow allies Caralee McElroy (formerly of Xiu Xiu), Dominick Fernow (contemporary noise icon Prurient) and Max G. Morton (celebrated author).
We’ve provided two downloadable mp3s from the album:
“The Laurels of Erotomania” (160kbps mp3) showcases album’s rhythmic sensibility with menacing dissonance dappled atop.
“Life Magazine” (160kbps mp3), already an online favorite, brings sonic warmth emerging from Cold Cave’s electronic landscapes, and as The Fader writes, “swims soft, an unmistakable pop bubble bursting bar after bar.”
Cold Cave have collaborated with Prurient, contributed to 2009′s No Fun Fest and have gigged with groups ranging from NON to Comet Gain. You can find Cold Cave on the West Coast in September with many more dates being confirmed as we speak.
September 3: Soda Bar, San Diego w/ Crocodiles & Strange Boys
September 4: The Casbah, San Diego w/ Glass Candy
September 5: LA Historic State Park, Los Angeles: FYF Fest (w/ Black Lips, Lightning Bolt, Fucked Up, Times New Viking, Kurt Vile & More)
* latecomers can find many of these tracks compiled on the Hospital Productions collection ‘Cremations‘
The Born Again Revisited preorder is up in its final incarnation in the Matastore, and it’s unfuckingbelievable. In a fit of unprecedented (and probably never-to-be-repeated) generosity, when you preorder Born Again Revisited through Matador Direct, you get:
-the new TNV single, Move to California, 7″
-the Stay Awake EP, 7″
-the Whitney poster from the band’s 2008 performance
Click here to get in on this incredible offer, while supplies last! Remember, your goods arrive on release day – Sept. 22nd – only when you preorder from the Matastore.
On Friday, September 25, Julian Plenti will play his first show since 2001. It will take place at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the second in the “It Came From Brooklyn series,” which starts tomorrow with The Walkmen. Plenti will be backed by a full band plus strings and horns.
Doors open at 8 PM and the event goes until midnight. Additional guests and ticket info to follow.
And if you haven’t done so already, check out the video for “Games For Days,” directed by Javier Aguilera and featuring the acting talents of Emily Haines:
As readers of America’s most popular music blog have probably already heard, yours truly had a particularly unpleasant Monday night/Tuesday morning ; to wit, my South Austin home completely burned to the ground. Everything I owned — along with the possessions of 2 roommates/dear friends, was lost in the blaze.
Over the past two days, I’ve been truly humbled and touched by how many of you — friends and strangers alike — have reached out to offer support, a place to crash, something to eat, etc. Sadly, I can say that such expressions of humanity were not unanimous.
As readers of America’s 2nd or 3rd most popular record label blog are probably aware, I’ve made a frequent practice at poking fun at Victory Records and the brains behind the operation, Tony Brummel.
Earlier today I received the following e-mail message from someone claiming to be Brummel ;
I’ve got to admit, I had previously underestimated Brummel. Not only would I have bet real money he couldn’t spell karma if you spotted him the K-A-R, but he’s even capable of attaching a .gif all by himself. But here’s the serious conclusion you can take away from this ill-advised attempt at a rejoinder ; Brummel considers my watching my home and possessions turned to ashes karmic payback for….criticism of his record label? An innocent pet burning to death is acceptable payback for mocking his dopey-as-fuck records, ads and business practices?
If you’re a fan of Victory or the label’s bands, I’ve got no quarrel with you. We all like what we like and no one needs to apologize for that not even fans of these schmucks. Honestly, though I can’t speak on behalf of his current or former roster (or employees), I don’t think Tony Victory’s aesthetic crimes are deserving of anything other than good old fashioned ribbing. What he expressed to me today, however, is another story. I think he deserves to have it widely circulated. Brummel can rub himself raw at the thought of my suffering personal or material loss ; if something similar happens to him, I’ll be the first person to ship Tony a box of good records. They might be the first decent ones he’s ever heard.
When Jewish immigrants came to this country in the first part of the 20th century, mainly from Eastern Europe and Russia, they rapidly adapted other culture’s dishes. This particular transformation of Italian pasta comes from Robert Sternberg’s Yiddish Cuisine: A Gourmet’s Approach To Jewish Cooking, as reprinted in the sadly defunct John Thorne-edited newsletter CookBook, a review of books about food. (I got it in a stack of back issues of Simple Cooking from the wonderful Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks. No link for CookBook- try Googling it – the title makes it an impossible search.)
This is a recipe from Sternberg’s grandmother, who didn’t see any point in preparing lokshen any other way than snapping the spaghetti in two and after cooking it, baking it in a rich mixture of sour cream and farmer’s cheese. The recipe clearly has an Italian origin, starting with a soffrito of celery, carrot and onion in butter, just like Marcella Hazan’s bolognese. However, green pepper and Hungarian hot paprika rapidly follow, along with tomato sauce, the aforementioned cheese and sour cream, and the whole thing is baked in a buttered glass dish at 350 degrees with the cooked noodles and generous dollops of butter on top.
The dish was supposed to have a crust but I was unable to get this in my oven. I didn’t have sauce, only plum tomatoes, which may account for the dish’s strangely unattractive top. I had never come across farmer’s cheese before, but Wikipedia says that it’s sort of a refined version of cottage cheese. I did not go to Murray’s for this but rather the Morton Williams on La Guardia Place, where I found it next to Kraft sliced American cheese. The brand claimed to be Amish, but I doubt that very much.
In any event, it was rather nice tasting, slightly tangy, much like the homemade cottage cheese at Ray Radigan’s steakhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The cheese and the sour cream make this a dairy dish in kosher terms; apparently ground beef may be substituted (for both) for a meat version.
I have to admit that the thought of this dish made me salivate. I miss the rich Americanized pastas, slathered with sauce, from my childhood. Even if I never had this specific dish, it has elements in common with my mom’s spaghetti and noodle casseroles. However, it turned out to taste sort of lasagna-esque, and I don’t mean that in a great way. Perfectly OK, but not sublime, unless (I suspect) you grew up with it. Also, I made the full recipe not noticing that it serves 6-8 people, and now have vast quantities in the fridge.
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