I know, just wanted to see your reaction. Probably depends a lot on
what > you are making and what's available to go with it.
More like the latter, though I admit that
obscure and sometimes arbitrary variables exist.
It's as good a reason as any. (G)
Gngngngn (snarl).
You might like to think that Spectrum is a small
responsibly-run enterprise, and it may once have
been that, but now it's just another cog in a
monstrous agribusiness wheel.
True, but it's not Crisco or similar.
Another monstrosity, but I don't see it as all
that much worse. Is Procter & Gamble worse than
Hain Celestial? To me they appear comparable.
Crisco is hydrogenated, the Spectrum isn't.
I'm not convinced that it makes a difference.
Trans fat, too. Much of the research implicates
all palm oils in heart problems, so that lets
out both those products ... and also, which the
health nuts don't realize, coconut oil as well.
It sounds like I'm more anthropocentric than you.
Sure, all these animals have their place in the
ecosystem, but to me their main role is to make my
kitchen a more interesting place, not to eat up my
vegetables (okay, maybe I don't care so much about
that).
It may not be as apparant to a 21st century, urban dweller as it was to
a 18th century farmer but if there were an over or under balance of
certain animals, insects or whatever, there would be a noticeable shift.
Of course, ancient peoples would most likely
have viewed small mammals in the way I do.
They might have been more sympathetic to
birds, which they could have noticed helped
keep the insect population under control.
and won't get vandalized by the creatures.
Sounds good. We got some grapefruit once in AZ that were like
that. > ML> And these folks are so blase about their
good fortune. Once in a while Lilli will
They usually are.
After a while the novelty palls.
And, certain drugs that have to be taken preclude grapefruit in the
diet.
There are always grapefruit-friendly
alternatives.
A vitamin C tablet does the same thing but probably not as appealing
to > her taste buds. (G)
It is I who worry about her malnutrition; she
probably doesn't actually care about scurvy.
If she eats a fairly well rounded diet, she shouldn't have to worry
about scurvy.
Consider whom you're referring to.
especially the drops.
Drops are the fully ripe ones, which are most
appealing to animals that distribute seeds (I'm
having a hard time imagining the mechanism for
distributing avocado seeds!). It's not of course
clear that what's appealing to a critter will
be optimally tasty for humans. I liked avocado
drops, but for me a little brown isn't a turnoff.
A little brown is OK; these avocadoes were the size of softballs so
there was plenty of useable avocado in them. Generally tho, we tried to
pick our avocadoes from the tree.
Was the picking criterion similar to that for
peaches? I.e., ripe enough that a quick twist
makes it come off.
It's an adaptation of a Vietnamese delicacy.
If your Vietnamese population is small enough,
its restaurants will serve only the easy sellers,
pho, banh mi, cha gio, and so on. Dollars to
doughnuts the kitchen would be able to accommodate
a special request for caramel pork by a compatriot
or even a roundeye foreigner.
Probably so, we've seen a few places in Raleigh that advertise pho.
IIRC, we did try one when we first moved to the area but I don't
remember what else was on the menu.
Menus change, and I was referring to
off the menu.
Treacle tart
categories: celebrity, historical, British, dessert
yield: 1
12 oz short crust pastry
golden syrup
2 oz breadcrumbs
1 pn ginger
- or a little lemon juice
Make the pastry crust in the proportion of
8 oz of flour to 5 oz butter, with a pinch
of salt, and mix with cold water. Line a
flat metal dish with the pastry. Cover with
a layer of bread crumbs, then pour in the
golden syrup. Sprinkle lemon juice or ginger
over the syrup and cover with the remainder
of the crumbs. Bake for 30 min in a hot oven.
George Orwell
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