Polenta with duck stock...

[crafty_packrat]

sets up a lot nicer than with the stock made from chicken bullion... or maybe it was just that the liquid was boiling vigorously when I added the corn meal this time.

Also, adding four crushed cardamom pods to the pear clatoufi recipe gives it a wonderful aroma.

Tomorrow, I plan to make the pork chili, and either chocolate cardamom pudding or milk cardamom pudding to use up the milk I have -- which means I need to buy either cornstarch or arrowroot tomorrow...