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

Nice! On both counts!

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.

I have to go to campus sometime this week, and I really don't want to. (This past year, we've been in temporary offices while the regular math building had the HVAC system replaced. The plan was always to move back this summer, and that's still the plan. The original plan was that we all had to put our office stuff into boxes and label them, and the movers would move them. Then the new plan was no, we shouldn't go to campus, the movers will pack up our stuff, and we should only go to campus if we had stuff in our offices that we didn't want the movers handling. And then the new new plan is that the movers will pack our professional items, but we have to move our own personal items, and we've been given zero guidance about how the movers will determine what's personal and what's professional. So, I've got to go to my office and collect anything that I think the movers might call personal.)

So, being in a campus building with the air circulating through all the offices is freaking me out a bit. I have one N95 mask (which I bought about six months ago, because my allergist suggested that I wear a mask when I dust or vacuum, and I bought a few different kinds to try, and I hadn't tried that one yet.) I figure I'll wear that when I'm in the building. I just tried to try it on, so that I could see how it felt and if I needed to make any adjustments. I somehow managed to stab myself in the eye with it while trying to put it on. Ow.