in which I try to recount many things in one post, probably forget lots

[greenworldgirl]

So during the past few weeks I have:

1. Made soap, wherein which I discovered that

A) Bay is the only plant that I get a good scent from alone
B) Making bay soap just about makes my nose bleed
C) It actually takes quite a lot of conventional scent to get the soap full of smell

2. Collected some coast buckwheat and coast daisy from the WAIT FOR IT...

Comments

[yukitsu]

fried some breaded yellow squash in the bacon grease What?

Your plants look nice, though! I am unused to seeing that much soil with the plants, because our garden is very rocky! But I think they will be pretty soon, y~~~

That bowl looks amazing. Is it really 500 years old? /wants to eat from it sorta

[greenworldgirl]

Yes, you cut it up, dredge the slices in milk, then flour, then fry it up. It's a dreadful, yet oddly delicious thing I learned from a Texan- Texas being the place where they fry EVERYTHING. Seriously, everything. I don't think they know how to eat vegetables that haven't been fried or made with bacon.

Yes, that bowl really is 500 years old. It was making its way to our shore long before we were a state.

[yukitsu]

Hou... that does sound nice, if a little bizarre. Fried things are nice, especially with breading! Oh yeah, Texans... I remember deep fried butter. : [ My heart feels tight just thinking about it.

That is so extremely awesome. 8D

[greenworldgirl]

Yeah- it was traditional in many parts of the midwest to save the leftover fat from cooking bacon to cook other things in. It was cheaper and it flavored and salted the food. This is part of the reason the midwest/south tends to have bigger people. :< From him I also learned how to make potatoes fried with bacon and tomatoes, and corned beef in a cast iron skillet. He also told me about these things called 'fry pies'. It sounds like they take a turnover, and then deep fry it. I'm surprised he's not dead yet.

[lenine2]

OMG awesome bowl! What's the story behind it?

[greenworldgirl]

The story is that I will have to go back there to write down the title of the accompanying book so I can link it on Amazon- basically the bowl came from a shipwreck that wrecked off our shore here about 500 years ago. So it has been sitting on the sea floor this whole time. That is why the other bowls were in worse condition, they had been worn down probably by being scoured by sand as the water moved, and maybe some salt damage as well? Many had the glaze worn nearly completely off, and their edges softened, but you could see a difference in raised texture, it looked like some glazes held up better than others.

[greenworldgirl]

Dangit, I can't edit my replies. The pottery is ~500 years old, the wreck is very old, but I'm not sure it was that old. If it were, then this would likely mean these were the dishes the crew ate off of. People were sailing all around here in the early 1500s, but there were few missions or settlements, so I'm not sure how much pottery they'd be needing to ship. So I wonder if it was already old when it was on the ship. That would not be uncommon. I trust their date for the pottery itself because it came from the Antique Society and it is run by mostly older ladies who volunteer and are totally anal about their stuff. Now I really will have to research this and figure exactly when the ship wrecked, and what it was doing.

[thundersocks]

I wouldn't have cared if it came in September; I loved it ♥ And mmnnn bacon sammich. /stomach growls

[greenworldgirl]

Bawww...Angie, why are you so cute?

[thundersocks]

BECAUSE ANGIE LOVES AMBER IS WHY

[greenworldgirl]

OH WELL OKAY THEN

BECAUSE AMBER LOVES ANGIE TOO