[Sca-cooks] My Christmas dinner & LOOT

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach caointiarn:
>crackers & beef log

qu'est-ce que c'est beef log? A sausage?

>     The LOOT is way cool!  A set of Henkels!!! :) :) :)  Chef, paring,
>carving set & cleaveer with sharpening blade (is that the right term?)  A
>Rolpat, and two bread books: _The Bread Bible_  & _Crust & Crumb_.  Also
>some strange foodie items, like Galanga Powder,   product of Thailand, (is
>this galingale?)

Probably. Looks like ground ginger, smells like ginger mixed with 
eucalyptus? That'd probably be the white, or greater (I think the 
white kind is the greater) galangale, also known as (I think) laos. 
The other is red/lesser/kencur. Or some other recombination of 
terms... but medieval Europeans used both kinds and called both 
galingale.

Adamantius