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We went to the farmer's market for the first time this year, and bought supplies for making Sloppy Joe filling and Wild Tidy Joes (bison version). We also had lunch with my parents and visited a bookstore. There's a new mushroom vendor, Flyway Family Farm, who had lovely batches of fresh oyster mushrooms for $5. Very sweet and tasty, we had those for supper with garam masala. Biggest score was Prairie Rim Bison / Ruhter Bison. Lovely ranch running about 40 head of buffalo at present. Aho! In addition to the usual ground bison and less common things such as ribs, they had something I've not seen white people selling before: bison soup bones. Not just meatybones like I was expecting but actual slices of limb with quite a lot of meat around it. I bought two fist-sized packages for $6.50 and opened them to find that each contained two slabs the size of large lamb chops, nearly as big as my hand. *victory dance* So I have crocked those with about a gallon of water now simmering away in the kitchen, and we shall have bison broth! :D We also bought cheesecloth so I could make a bouquet garni instead of chasing bits of leaves around the pot. I put in two bay leaves, a bunch of peppercorns and juniper berries, a big sprig each of fresh sage and rosemary, and some sea salt. I had fun rolling the fresh herbs between my hands to bruise them and release the flavor, so now my hands smell like rosemary and sage. I also trimmed some brush from the forest garden, watered plants, and sprayed the Japanese beetles. Little bastards have almost denuded my firecracker plant. And I couldn't find my can of Sevin. >_< I prefer to avoid pesticides, but when the JBs swarm there's little other choice because nothing will eat them. Must get a fresh can. Blackberry lilies have tiny buds on them now. Tags: food, gardening, illinois, nature, personal
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Today, in Reasons Not to Hurl the Planet into the Sun, I discovered that Cracker Barrel has a new dessert for summer: Campfire S'Mores. This consists of a graham cracker crust, warm fudge brownie, roasted marshmallow, and melty chocolate bar accompanied by a scoop of vanilla ice cream drizzled with dark chocolate sauce. *DROOL, SLOBBER* It's harder than it looks to translate recipes across different cooking modes, such as bringing a campfire classic into the kitchen. I've had several attempts at indoor s'mores, including the pretty good s'more dessert pizza at Brixx, but nothing that compares to this. So if you like s'mores and you're near a Cracker Barrel, go try this. \o/ EDIT 6-27-17: Someone has thoughtfully posted a copycat recipe. This will be useful after the special concludes in August. Meanwhile go throw money at the people who invented this, in hopes they will make more awesome food. EDIT 6-28-17: Now in delicious poem flavor! I wrote about some supervillains discovering this dessert. "Reasons Not to Hurl the Planet into the Sun" is 60 lines, Buy It Now = $20 Tags: food
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... would a hospital make a McDonald's its adjunct restaurant. Think about all the times doctors nag people to eat better and lose weight, and all the people who can't eat McDonald's due to special dietary needs. I am just boggled by the loss of opportunity, because this shit is routine in L-American "health care" -- they push people around, but refuse to lift a finger to help. Hospital food is almost universally slop of exactly the kind they tell people not to eat, and the cafeterias or adjunct restaurants are barely better. What they should be doing is serving delicious well-balanced meals to show people how that works, and then doctors should eat that in public, because humans are prone to imitative behavior. I've read about outliers having an organic restaurant, but in terms of access, that's still a unicorn hunt. But McDonald's? Really? WTF. Fortunately someone working there does NOT have their head up their ass, and has started a petition to replace it with a restaurant serving healthy food. Tags: activism, food, networking, safety
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This poem came out of the April 18, 2017 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from ![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) alatefeline and technoshaman. It also fills the "habits and routines" square in my 4-3-17 card for the ![[community profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png) origfic_bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by janetmiles. It belongs to the Clay of Life series. ( Read more...Collapse )Tags: activism, cyberfunded creativity, fantasy, fishbowl, food, poem, poetry, reading, spirituality, weblit, writing
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We met my parents in Champaign today. :D Stopped to shop for spices, and I got the ones I was looking for. Doug found a new brand of world spice blends that I looked at for 2 seconds and said, "If I start going through those, I will blow $50 and I've already got a sizable order here." But I definitely plan to go back and do that in the future. For supper we went to Olive Garden, which had a sample table with their two flavored lemonades: strawberry-passionfruit and kiwi-melon. Both were utterly fabulous. I got the strawberry-passionfruit, Doug got the kiwi-melon, and we shared. :D Both flavors had a top, middle, and bottom note so I will definitely remember that for future reference in fruity lemonades. It made a huge difference over just strawberry lemonade. We watched Step Afrika at the Krannert center, which was also brilliant. They did amazing things with dance, drums, and body music. Very exuberant, whole-body motions. The show told the story of the Great Migration from Africa to the South, and then the South to the North. \o/ Tags: entertainment, ethnic studies, food, history, music, personal
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Last time we went shopping, I spied some flavored cottage cheese in snack-size cups. I grabbed the strawberry; other flavors include peach and pineapple. I think there was at least one savory flavor, too, but that's all I could find online. Today I tried the strawberry version, and it was pretty good, although a little odd. Probably that's just lack of familiarity -- I had a similar experience with Annie's yogurt, which is now my favorite. It's a surprisingly healthy set of ingredients for a store brand, too. I didn't even realize the fruit was on the bottom and supposed to be stirred, since strawberry bits were visible on top; I'd expected it to be flavored with puree at best. Just remember to stir it first. Also, the label says "small curd" but this looks more like what I've seen sold as "large curd" before; if you're picky about size, be careful. I happen to like both. I also enjoy plain cottage cheese, but variety is fun. As a snack, this has many advantages: individual cups are more portable and convenient for portioning, cottage cheese is nutritious, and it's filling. :D Apparently several other companies have their own options: Honey & Pear, Maple & Vanillasix fruit flavorsand more! If you don't eat dairy, you can make coconut cottage cheese. It's probably just as good with fruit. Stuff like this is ubiquitous in Terramagne -- plain, sweet, or savory. They have much better access to healthy snacks. When tasty, affordable, nutritious food is readily available then people are more likely to eat that than junk. A vending village in T-America will typically have half a case of junk if there's only a couple of machines, or one for candy and one for sodas if there are many machines. The rest will have fruit, sandwiches, granola bars, healthy dairy products, bottled water, fruit juice, and other good-to-great choices. The higher-tech machines will play little games with you or ask health trivia questions, and you can win discounts or even free food that way. Tags: food, personal, shopping
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