{"id":734,"date":"2014-12-08T18:34:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T00:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=734"},"modified":"2014-12-09T09:34:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T15:34:03","slug":"dijon-mustard-and-christmas-tipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"Dijon mustard and Christmas tipping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, let me say that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidlebovitz.com\/2009\/11\/how-to-make-french-vinaigrette\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Lebovitz is right<\/a>! After saying there was no way I was going to buy a new jar of Dijon mustard to make the vinaigrette tonight, I saw the both (!) the old jars I had in the Bubbarator were long expired (the more recent one had a &#8216;best by&#8217; date of last January). So I went to Central Market and got a jar of Maille, on his recommendation (sort of). It\u00a0was reasonably priced, and it&#8217;s worlds\u2014WORLDS\u2014above the other Dijon mustards I&#8217;ve tasted. This one doesn&#8217;t taste like horseradish*! The vinaigrette I made with it (and a fresh shallot and some wine vinegar) is actually very tasty.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve now <strong>made<\/strong> a vinaigrette I like!<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, I hadn&#8217;t written the check for our lawn service, and the guys came today. I wrote it really quickly, and carried it out to hand to one of the guys. I&#8217;d done that with the old company, but not with these guys. It wasn&#8217;t until I handed it to him that I realized that he was probably thinking it was a Christmas tip.<\/p>\n<p>Oh no!<\/p>\n<p>What do I do now? They don&#8217;t even come every week this time of year, so it&#8217;s not like I can hand them something next week. And we really can&#8217;t afford to give much in the way of cash. What. do. I. do?!?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Next to sweet pickles, one of the worst tastes in the known world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, let me say that David Lebovitz is right! After saying there was no way I was going to buy a new jar of Dijon mustard to make the vinaigrette tonight, I saw the both (!) the old jars I had in the Bubbarator were long expired (the more recent one had a &#8216;best by&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}