Comments | jonsinger: Duck and Hubbard; Let's Hear It for Latvian Rye

jonsinger

Duck and Hubbard; Let's Hear It for Latvian Rye

Feb 09, 2013 08:45

A while ago I bought a small Hubbard squash. With Hubbards (and various other kinds of winter squash, if I understand that term correctly) “small” is a relative term. This particular critter probably weighed less than 10 lbs, so it really was quite modest, as such things go.

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soup, winter squash, rye bread, duck, latvia

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Squash lsanderson February 9 2013, 15:54:17 UTC

Somebody likes to cook chunks of yellow squash in rice soup. It's quite good.

jonsinger February 10 2013, 01:41:39 UTC

Yup. Should be.

I came to the winter squashes very late (aside from pumpkin pie). When I was a kid, I couldn't stand acorn squash, and I still don't like it. I thought that was the general winter squash flavor, so things like 'Marina di Chioggia' were a huge revelation.

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jon

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jonsinger February 10 2013, 01:44:04 UTC

Hi!

I can't even do spelt; allergic to that (and kamut) the same way I am to wheat. Sigh.

Haven't found the GOBs yet, but I think I'm getting closer. A few days ago I was able to show lisajulie a thing I did on a Gestetner, with a piece of my artwork on it. The problem is that I'm spang in the middle of moving, and it just keeps going on and on; I don't have much time to look through stuff yet. Fingers crossed, hoping this will ameliorate within a few weeks.

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jon

oakmouse February 10 2013, 04:00:49 UTC

If your wheat allergy is protein-based, spelt and kamut have the same proteins which makes sense because both are varieties of wheat. (And which means, of course, that both are also full of gluten. Garg.)

jonsinger February 11 2013, 21:47:11 UTC

Gargh, indeed. The weird thing is that some people appear to be sensitive to something in wheat that is different from the equivalent in spelt or kamut, and can get away with eating those. Not me, though. Dammit. I like spelt, too. Grump grump grump.

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shelleybear February 9 2013, 20:47:45 UTC

Are you going to be at Minicon this year?

jonsinger February 10 2013, 01:46:34 UTC

Hi.

Doubt it; things are unstable and unsettled right now, and probably will be for a little while.

oakmouse February 10 2013, 04:08:38 UTC

A druid friend of mine who is sick of being told that as a druid she ought to be enough of an environmentalist to eat a strictly local diet has posted a couple of entertaining and informative public explosions to the effect that for most Americans, a locavore diet also means a very restricted diet. In her case, too restricted a diet for health; she would miss several major nutrients and a couple of entire food groups ( ... )

jonsinger February 11 2013, 21:47:38 UTC

Uhh, told more than once that she "ought to be" "enough of an environmentalist to eat a locavore diet"? Gaaahhhghhhh!! Sounds to me like some yutzes need to be clue-sticked firmly enough that they begin to engage the thought process. Not that it tends to work with dedicated yutzes. (Helps a whole lot if the person[s] being cluesticked actually want to get their consciousness[es] raised, eh ( ... )

oakmouse February 11 2013, 22:43:02 UTC

Ah, I see you haven't encountered the popular pagan sport of back-stabbing one-upmanship coupled with a lust for unearned power. I love druidry dearly but it's not exempt from that insidious pastime. There are fewer druids who are ready to try to publically humiliate and guilt-trip people who don't follow their prescriptions for What All Druids Should Do than there are generic pagans who try that game on All Pagans Everywhere, but nonetheless it does happen in druid circles too. Yes, she's been told several times that she's Not A Real Druid because she doesn't take the environmental steps that her critics insist All Druids Should Do If They Want To Call Themselves Druids In Front Of Me ( ... )