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|  || Thursday, November 02, 2006 || Saturday, 21st OctDay 47 – A Spot of Domesticity There was an organic vegetable fair at Marché Notre Dame today. So I decided to be domestic and bought vegetables to make a ratatouille, a traditional French dish of stewed vegetables.   [Onions and peppers glistening with olive oil. How patriotic they look together!]I made a large batch so I would have leftovers to reheat for dinner.  [Only the beginning. This thing has to stew for hours. There was so much I had to use my other pot!]The ratatouille is one of those dishes which gets better with keeping cause the flavours have more time to meld together. To heat it up, I popped my serving into the oven to grill.  The grilling caramelises the vegetables, especially the onions, and the dish, already refreshingly sweet in itself takes on a new dimension as the caramelisation adds a delicious flavour of char and concentrates the sweetness. Next time, I’m grilling it straight. Oh!! And I bought oysters and shuckled them myself. Shuckling oysters is no joke. It takes a lot of force. They were €1 the half-dozen, but honestly quite tasteless. I hope next will be better. 
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