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[the101dmnations]

I was out running errands with a low fever. I felt how hot the skin of my face was when the cold breeze blew across it, how remote my thoughts were-peck-pecking at their own tired mystery-when chickadees chirped, congregants around a small brick of suet hung in the yard of one of the fine old houses in my neighborhood

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[jestercard]

On mine it's "rendered beef fat."

does rendering just mean cooking

[the101dmnations]

Yuppie chickadees on the Hill only eat the fancy stuff, I suppose...

i m a bad cook

[lostcosmonaut]

pasta leftovers was a big staple for me in college -- just add butter and salt (when I couldn't afford sauce)

--mza.

i made really good carrots last night

[the101dmnations]

steam a pound of them with some chopped-up shallots or onions, a splash of white wine, butter, salt, and pepper. Cover and cook till they're perfect or liquid is boiled all the way off. God's favorite delicious basic food.

[crooksandlucy]

"On the other hand, someone told me lately that suet, the romantic cakes of stuff to which the chickadees were applying their winter appetites, is made of fat from mutton loin."
-Famous Last Words