Reduce the heat and add the rice, spices, cinnamon stick, and bay leaf.

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The trick was to cut small quantities of meat into paper-thin slices, season them with condiments, preserves, and spices, add whatever vegetables you could grow or barter, and keep adding until you arrived at a dish so tasty that you forgot how little meat was in it.

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Add the chili bean paste, the spices, the potatoes, the soy sauce and the beer, cover the pot and let it boil.

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Turn down the speed and add the milk, cream, booze, and spices and mix for another 3 minutes.

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"That consciousness of using very high-quality herbs and spices and other materials that are much sought after and rare does add to that sense of it being Christ-like in its quality, " he said.

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