Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
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.
Gudanov's list of accomplishments for one day is like two weeks for me. Impressive!
Today I jogged around the neighborhood, got unreasonably cranky at a driver who rolled through an intersection and somehow missed seeing me in the middle of the road, read a book, did a little laundry, made pastry cream, and now I have a pot of Helen Rosner's Roberto soup on the stove. (I had to sub in bratwurst and bok choy for the Italian sausage and kale, hope it works.)
I have to say it's almost identical to Mark Bittman's "cassoulet" but with fewer veggies and beans.
Mmm, y'all dinners sound good and days productive!
I'm having bacon, chard, and amaranth for dinner. Sautéed the bacon to crisp it up a little, stirred the chard stems into the fat to soften up a little, stirred amaranth into that mixture, water, chard leaves on top to steam. In instant pot on rice setting. Should be done soon. I think I might watch Dead To Me while I eat...
I had a good dinner, too! Blackened trout, couscous, and apricot glazed green beans. It will also be my primary meal tomorrow. Making that and all the clean up was my productivity for the day.
Eeeee, the farm where I used to get chickens and eggs has organized a CSA, I just ordered duck eggs, duck legs and salad greens to pick up next Saturday. They have a good selection of stuff I don't need right now (including a whole lamb broken down for $600 which would be interesting to find out how long that would feed me (a long damn time, I would guess)) so as long as they keep it available I'll probably have excuses to head over there. I'm so excited!
Also excited because nephew's commencement livestream starts in an hour. EEEEEEEE
t, what do duck eggs taste like? Or is it pretty much that eggs is eggs?
I went out to find flour with an eye to checking some of the non-supermarkets and found luck at the first one I tried, a combination gardening store/upscale grocery store. (Pemberton's for those who know Greater Cambridgeville.)
They had regular all-purpose flour loose in a bin, so I could scoop it into two containers, so I got around two pounds. Elsewhere in the store they had 10 lb bags they'd filled, but when I'd put so much effort into filling up the containers -- now I'm kicking myself for not getting one in addition.
I really do go through enough flour in the course of normal baking that ten pounds actually kind of makes sense.
They are a little richer than chicken eggs - more fat. And a little bigger. So if you substitute one for one your end result will be a lot richer, typically. I'm not sure there is much of a flavor difference. Mostly they just seem luxurious to me.
Timelies all!
Happy Mother's Day to all Buffista mothers and mother-figures!
I swear, I have things I care about other than viral Twitter threads that are less than correct on the internet, but...okay, fine, this falls under my irritation with "NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS!" posts that link to, like, front-page NYT or WP articles or, like CNN. ANYHOW.
Does print media just not count in people's minds when they talk about collective mourning and honoring/talking about the COVID-19 dead? Literally every major paper and magazine I read is reporting their stories. (I'm pretty sure our local TV news is doing the same, though I don't check those on the regular like I do print media.)
Sigh.
