Timelies all!
Tired. Also the middle of my back has been hurting on and off for a while. Don't know what I did, other than general getting old stuff.
'Lessons'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Timelies all!
Tired. Also the middle of my back has been hurting on and off for a while. Don't know what I did, other than general getting old stuff.
Ada Palmer said that there is always a trade off between current cultural norms and historical authenticity. For example, in Renaissance times, bright or intensely dark dyes were a sign of wealth, so a 12 year old from a wealthy house would likely wear lots of deep, rich colors in her dresses. But these days we tend to think of, say, a burgundy dress as something for an older person, and we'd expect to see the 12 year old in a costume drama of the period to be in white or pastels. The bit about costume choices starts a little past halfway down, but I think it's all interesting. [link]
but they were gone before I could examine what was inside!!
I can guarantee there was chopped olives because without olives THEN IT'S NOT A DAMN MUFFALETTA!
Agreed, obviously. There did seem to be olive salad left in the box.
There did seem to be olive salad left in the box.
Mmmmhmmm. Checks out.
I'm assuming they were too delicious to last long enough to be examined, so well done vegetarian Muffaletta making musician!
I had steak and popcorn for dinner. Not anyone's tradition, so far as I know, but kind of fitting. I need to throw some beans on the Instant Pot for breakfast now...
I did not think about how to manage making black-eyed peas for lunch when I was buying a ham hock. Oops.
We had pancakes for dinner, since today is also Pancake Tuesday. (And because I am susceptible to people's pictures on Facebook of *their* pancake dinners.)
The hoity-toity restaurant down the street had a special Mardi Gras menu tonight, and although I know their cabbage rolls and oysters are excellent I couldn't pass up the muffaletta burger. Turns out olive salad and salami works really well with a good beef patty.
That sounds indulgent and interesting!
BTW, if anyone missed out on pancakes today, I believe that Sunday is Butter Sunday - more about blinis than pancakes, I suppose, but basically the same.