The 2018-19 Celtics are a team worth watching.
An amazing team, forming.

Based on and around a group of four experienced players who are composed, team players, and talented in every phase of the game: scoring, rebounding and assists.

Kyrie Irving.
Gordon Hayward.
Al Horford.
Marcus Morris.

No other team has a core of players like them.
Not four.

These men make few mistakes.
Have uncommon basketball acumen.
Have egos inextricably interwoven in team play.
And have talent.

Also, the core of four are blessed to have a second terrifically talented core of younger players, Marcus Smart, Jason Tatum, Terry Rozier, and Jaylen Brown, great talents awaiting the seasoning that experience and exposure will bring them.

No backbiting.
No outside agenda.
No factions.

Defining sport.
A team worth watching.
Oh! What lucky fans we are.

November 6
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Quiz Question of the Day:
Who makes the best New England Clam Chowder in Boston?

Hint:
We do!

Left:
Hard-shell clams are classified by size.
The smallest legally harvestable clams are called countnecks or peanuts, next size up are littlenecks, then topnecks.
Larger still are the cherrystones, and the largest, quahogs or chowder clams.
We use cherrystones in our recipe. 

Second from left:
Pancetta is an Italian bacon made of pork belly meat, that is salt cured and spiced with black pepper, and sometimes other spices.
Pancetta in Italy is typically cooked to add depth to soups and pastas. 

Second from right:
For culinary purposes, potato varieties are often differentiated by their waxiness: floury or mealy baking potatoes have more starch (20–22%) than waxy boiling potatoes (16–18%).

Right:
Mixed onions: red and brown onions, with and without skin, whole and sliced and in rings.
© User:Colin / Wikimedia Commons

Onions are cultivated and used around the world.
As a food item, they are usually served cooked, as a vegetable or part of a prepared savory dish, but can also be eaten raw or used to make pickles or chutneys.
They are pungent when chopped and contain certain chemical substances which irritate the eyes.

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Tagging Today
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
My 210th consecutive posting.
Time is 12.01am.
Boston’s temperature on Tuesday will reach a high of 61* and it will rain.

Dinner is a Turkey Sandwich with all the trimmings.

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Short Takes:
Binge-watched House of Cards, Season Six.
While writing the blog of course.
After five years of providing us with excellent television, House of Cards, Season Six disappoints.
A loss.

Short Takes:
City Life.
Sunrise from my apartment window.

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Answer to Quiz Question:
Who makes the best New England Clam Chowder in Boston?
We do.

The broad strokes:
Render a tasty fat like bacon or pancetta and then fry the potatoes and onions, then the chopped clams, then add the broth and cream.
What could be easier?

CLAM CHOWDER (7-8 cups) 
24 cherrystones
2 cups water
Steam clams open and remove, shells discarded
Clams weigh about 9oz
Save 2 cups of broth
Cut cherrystones into small pieces 

Salt pork/bacon, 2 oz, well-rendered in 12 cup sauce pan w 1 TB butter to lubricate while pancetta starts to liquefy 

12 oz waxed potatoes, scrubbed and small diced
4 oz onions, small diced
Put potatoes and onions into rendered bacon
Add pepper
Add TB butter
Add 1TB clam broth, adding bits more clam broth as needed to prevent sticking and burning of potatoes and onions.
Add ½ cup of freshly-chopped parsley or basil
Add 1/2t fines herbes
Cover and soften the potatoes and onions. 

Pour 1 ½ cups of clam broth into potatoes and onions and cook until potatoes soft
Add chopped clams
Add 4oz of milk and 4oz of heavy cream (Replace milk with light cream if a creamier version is desired)             

Heat fully, garnish with thinly-sliced leeks or scallions and serve with hard crackers.

November 6, Good Morning!
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We’ve talked about a great team forming, the best chowder recipe, binge watching the poorly done Season Six of House of Cards, a slice of astronomy in city life: sunrises from a hi-rise, and the recipe for clam chowder.

And we’ve looked at some images.

Che vuoi? Le pocketbook? (new photo installed)

Have a good day, my friends.
See you soon.

Love

Dom