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Selkie's Hypothetical Cafe (one Kosher meat main, one vegetarian main, two kinds of bread and two kinds of sweets daily, if you don't like today's menu, you know where to find the chippie) will proudly purvey only Adagio Teas.

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... where to find the whatnow?

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Chippie = fish and chip shop. :)

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Ahh.

"Our menu features two choices: take it or leave it."

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...Muppets? Or do I have it confused with the interlude from 'Happiness Hotel'?

Seriously. I have great ideas for the briskets of this world. Also for Apricot Chicken -- did your parental overunit ever make Apricot Chicken For Six Bazillion Seudah Shlishis Visitors? I'm convinced there's a way to do it that doesn't involve a jar of Smuckers jam.

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I don't even remember what it's from. I don't think it's Muppets.

My parental units never made Apricot Chicken, but my brother and I once invented a chicken sauce involving dried apricots, duck sauce, cranberry sauce, and onion soup mix. Is nummy.

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....Believe it or not, you were following the apparently genetically hard-coded tradition of apricot chicken, except that we used prunes instead of cranberry sauce.

Jar of Apricot Jam! (dried apricots, duck sauce)
Packet of Onion Soup!
Prunes to Artfully Decorate!
Season sparsely, dump over chicken, bake into oblivion. :)

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There was also red wine and balsamic vinegar involved; does that help?

I use jam a lot in chicken sauces -- raspberry works well with garlic, and bitter orange marmalade does wonderful things with fresh rosemary.

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It's a relief. :) *compares balsamic vinegar in your version with Russian dressing in crazy grandmother's*

I wonder if there's some ur-recipe floating around heimishe kitchens for this.

Also, mmm. I might try raspberry on the chicken tonight. I was just gazing into the fridge thinking what can I marinate in?

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Easy peasy -- raspberry jam, chopped garlic, simmer together for maybe a few minutes, pour over chicken.

'Course I also like red wine and balsamic and/or wine vinegar in that.

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Another option is to combine apricot jam and onions, thinned with a little soy sauce. Use only dark meat and you don't have to worry about apricot-soy leather.

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See, but then it would have real, fresh vegetable matter in it, and I think that might defeat the dish's hardscrabble theme.

....You make it too. *puts a check in the checkbox* You know, this dish has not arrived in the goyishe world. Not that I've polled extensively, but I believe the original must have come from the Greater Babylonian Little Hadassah By the Ziggurat cookbook.

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I knew you had excellent taste :) May I recommend Berry Blast and especially Blood Orange for the discerning Herbal Tea aficionado? :D

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What about Harney & Sons? Two Leaves and a Bud? I've heard good things about Adagio, but they can't be the only ones.

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I have noted these recommendations. Can you order them online? I'll have to do a tasting.

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Harney & Sons is available exclusively via mail order, unless you happen to be in the neighborhood of their tasting room un upstate New York.

Two Leaves and a Bud distributes through some retail stores; I have some very nice Assam (=Irish breakfast) from them, which I picked up at Fairway Uptown. They also have a partnership with a company called Dilmah, which amuses me only insofar as it is Aramaic for "perhaps."

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