your chopping...

Ah, so not much goodness left, but what there was was good.

Right... added just a little extra to the onions I fixed... :)

The difference must have been pretty subtle.

couple of lamb hearts... I think I paid $2 for the two of them.... They

They were pretty small, of course.

They were, each was an individual serving... and just a bit on the small
side as well... :)

I was thinking 200 g, so almost two USDA-approved
servings or one not-so-generous me-size one.

Both are for a specialist clientele. For a quick saute of
sliced kidneys, fresh are of course better, but by the
time they got done up in the stew, the texture of frozen
wouldn't have mattered much.

Apparently the person that snagged all her lamb kidneys didn't mind that
they were frozen, either... :)

If meaning them for a stew, there's no blame, if
for a saute, there's no accounting.

It wasn't a bad surprise, just a surprise... it was kinda cool... :)

I don't make it that way myself.

Yes, I remember the somewhat different stuff you made up at the Pond the second Pond picnic...

Huh, I forget that altogether.

One wonders if they just had the price sign for the
regular and none for the pistachio, so we didn't
know or notice the disparity..

All I saw was the price for the regular... possibly a sticker on the
package, and nothing for the pistachio... I suppose we might have asked
what they wanted for the fancier sort...

Even if I'd saw what the register rang up, I probably
would not have gone, whoa there.

Maybe there's also an Aleppo in Turkey.... ;) SOW, the kid is safely
back there now... I've heard from him... ;)

Not in Aleppo, I hope (and I'm pretty sure there's
just the one).

He's not in (or anywhere near) Aleppo... he's in Bodrun... And Jim was
saying that the original Aleppo region is partially in Turkey, so I
guess that could be an excuse for a Turkish company to somewhat
legitimately use the name....

If Bodrum goes, there's probaby noplace safe in Europe.

It wasn't that much more inefficient doing it the way
we did, and I have more time on my hands than I used to.

Not quite as tight a schedule any more....

A very different kind of tight. I have a substantial
number of demands on my time, as some of my nearest
and dearest are aging off fairly rapidly.

94.5 when I was in high school, and I got to know it
pretty well. Heard it only once after in its entirety;
Skrowaczewski and Minneapolis I think.

WXXI does play it every so often still... I recently heard a different
homage to Mozart, I forget which composer though...

There's the thoroughly weird Schnittke Moz-Art,
which is the most recent one I've encountered.

I take it the thermometer hasn't been replaced, then... :)

Nope, though the probe part, which got busted, can be had on
Amazon.

Is Lilli likely to be thinking of replacing that...? If she's leaving
it to you, I'd guess there'd be little of no impetus to follow through
on that... :)

But she loves shopping on Amazon.

Sahara Glowing Heart Cocktail
categories: booze, exotic, likely awful
servings: 1

1 oz dry gin
1 oz absinthe
1 oz dry imported apricot brandy
1/2 oz grenadine

Shake with lots and lots of ice and strain into a large
saucer champagne glass, and pray to Allah for forgiveness
of all imminent and future sins of the flesh.

Charles H. Baker via drunkard.com
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