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\n\"\"<\/a>How do you follow two months of indulgent Thanksgiving and Christmas feasting accompanied by a generous complement of seductive leftovers plus a procession of hypercaloric desserts without incurring post-holiday anticlimax?<\/p>\n

Should you simply resign yourself to the prosaic with a homespun brunch like eggs and sausage, home fries and an English muffin?<\/p>\n

Fat chance. And I use the word \u201dfat\u201d advisedly. Because what you\u2019re seeing here is more than meets the eye.<\/p>\n

Those are sunny side up fresh duck eggs and the sausages are Chinese lap cheong made with duck liver; the home fries are anointed with white truffle oil and the English muffins are slathered with my homemade trifoliate orange and cranberry marmalade.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nOh, and a side of homemade johnnycakes.<\/p>\n

So thanks to Santa\u2019s sleight of hand I was able to cobble together this antidote to post-holiday culinary blues!
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\nStay safe, be well, and eat whatever it takes! \u2764
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