I guess I am the only one who posts here anymore. At any rate, beautiful day so I called around town to tell everyone I was going to Brown’s Orchard and got a bunch of orders for apples- bushel of winesaps and Jonahgold for Mrs. Chambers to make pies for the General store and the Church’s women’s club, some for Gerald, some for Holly, and a bunch for people you don’t know about.
For myself, I picked up a 10lb mix of Red Delicious, Nittany’s, some Golden Delicious, and some Crimson Crisps. I was there at just the right time and the Red Delicious were beautiful and taste just like they did when I was a kid before they bred them for color so they would look good in stores and on lunch trays and basically ruined them. I know I have mentioned this before, but what happened to red delicious apples is basically a war crime in my book. I also posit that one of the reasons people eat so much candy is because they have never had actual fresh fruit. It’s even worse for people who live in food deserts, and when they do get an apple it’s a piece of shit like the red delicious crap that pollute every grocery store produce session.
After the orchard, I headed up to the Golden Pig, which is a delightful Korean restaurant in Cecil Township that not enough people know about. It is authentic Korean cuisine, not Americanized (ie not ruined), and it is so good that if you eat Korean food you will cry when you taste it. It used to be the place where all the chefs within 100 miles would go to eat because it is one of those places where the people in the know know. It’s been take out only since covid, but every time I am in the area I will stop by. I was not hungry today because I had a late brunch, but they have the most magnificent kimchee, so I picked up 32 ounces to put in the fridge and eat back home.
The final stop was at the apiary down the road from the orchard, the Bedillion Honey Farm, another small business where the people are good and the product is remarkable. I know I have mentioned all these places before, at least I think I have, but they are so good they deserve another post.
At any rate, one of the specialty honeys that they sell is the Japanese Knotweed, and I think it is my favorite honey of all time and I like that it is made from an invasive species. Make something good out of something bad. Solid work, bees. I also picked up a little bit of Black Locust and some Buckwheat honey, the latter of which some people do not like. Also, I was lucky, and they actually had some Knotweed honeycomb, and I am squirreling that away in the fridge for special occasions for my coffee or tea.
So that was today. Now I nap.
germy
West of the Rockies
Lake Woebegone Redux. I can almost hear Garrison’s respiration.
Peter
John, I know you make sauerkraut and kimchi is just a few more ingredients and a quick rice paste (optional but I love what it does to the texture; it makes the brine into a sauce). Well worth a try if you love eating it.
Heidi Mom
Nittany apples are my favorite. Glad to hear they’ve made it to WV!
UncleEbeneezer
You can make some really killer, authentic Korean at home too, for anyone interested. All you need is to get some Korean staples (Gochujang, Gochujaru, Sesame Oil, Soy, garlic, Kimchi, etc.) and most of the recipes are pretty simple and just variations using those handful of ingredients. If you don’t have a good Asian/Korean grocery store nearby you can get most of these via Instacart, Amazon or decent knock-offs at Trader Joes, Ralphs, etc.
We became obsessed with Korean in the past few years and then started cooking various dishes at home (mostly grilling meats or making yummy soups). We probably do Korean 2-3 times a week. And instructors/guides like Maangchi make it really easy to make killer meals with fairly little effort or cooking skills.
UncleEbeneezer
This Korean wing recipe is amazing! We bake or grill the wings instead of fry them (no fryer) but they are still the best wings we’ve ever had. Just make some rice to go with them and maybe some garlic-sesame spinach and kimchi, and you have a full-on Korean meal.
John Cole
I AM NOT GOING TO MAKE MY OWN KIMCHEE. I’m german, I will dabble in sauerkraut and have done it since I was a kid. But I am not attempting something that has been passed down for thousands of years, particularly when there are people who make the WORLD’S BEST just a bit from me.
Sure Lurkalot
@UncleEbeneezer: I bought some short ribs cut flanken style and tomorrow’s dinner to be some recipe of kalbi that looks good. I also make a chicken dish with gochujang that’s fiery and rich. Need some more of that bean paste as I had to pitch what I had when my fridge died.
pluky
Evidently the young shoots of knotweed are edible!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynoutria_japonica
“It grows widely throughout Japan and is foraged as a wild edible vegetable (sansai), though not in sufficient quantities to be included in statistics.[18] They are called by such regional names as tonkiba (Yamagata),[18] itazuiko (Nagano, Mie),[18] itazura (Gifu, Toyama, Nara, Wakayama, Kagawa),[18] gonpachi (Shizuoka, Nara, Mie, Wakayama),[18] sashi (Akita, Yamagata),[18] jajappo (Shimane, Tottori, Okayama),[18] sukanpo (many areas).
Young leaves and shoots, which look like asparagus, are used. They are extremely sour; the fibrous outer skin must be peeled, soaked in water for half a day raw or after parboiling, before being cooked.
Places in Shikoku such as central parts of Kagawa Prefecture[19] pickle the peeled young shoots by weighting them down in salt mixed with 10% nigari (magnesium chloride). People in Kochi also rub these cleaned shoots with coarse salt-nigari blend. It is said (though no authority is cited) that the magnesium of the nigari binds with the oxalic acid thus mitigating its hazard.[20]”
Leto
I went over to the Amish farmers market this morning, got some food for the week as well as some donuts and chocolate milk for a late brunch. Avalune and I then headed over to the Reading Pagoda, which is a few miles from our home, and took in the absolutely gorgeous fall color changing leaf display. Currently grabbing some excellent fish tacos from a local place so we can get home and have date night, dinner and a movie.
Edit: regarding honey, Avalune’s coworker raises bees (has a professional bee keeper help tend them/collect honey). The property has these Russian olive trees and the honey that’s produced is this just fantastic olive flavored honey that’s so unique. We obtained 4 large Ball jars of the stuff and we have a lot of plans for it.
Fake Irishman
Dad has very fond memories of working with Korean MPs during his service in Vietnam in part because they always shared their Kimchee.
gwangung
Oooh….that reminds me….a local dumpling shop makes their own kimchee. Shrimp dumplings and kimchee…yummmm…..
Burnspbesq
I’m on Team Tart. Mostly I eat Grannies, but when they’re available and not too beaten up, I will go for a Mac.
MelissaM
Gods, your car must smell fantastic! Sadly, we don’t have a decent orchard near us (I’m not counting the orchard that trucks in a lot of its apples. Sure, you can pick your own, but at high price, etc.) There was a place that had lots of old varieties, but they aged out of the practice and now they lease their trees to some folks that don’t open to the public (they do shares I think, which I haven’t investigated.
Another Scott
Good apples are good. Some of our favorite meals in Japan were Korean food (and Korean inspired food). Quite tasty. You’re lucky to have a good Korean place nearby.
In other news, …
Lots of truth there.
Cheers,
Scott.
Leto
@Fake Irishman: most of my friends who spent significant time in Korea, at least one tour (12 months), absolutely love Kimchi as well as most Korean food. You can usually find 1 or 2 good places around most air bases.
Gin & Tonic
Japanese knotweed is the handiwork of Satan himself. Making honey from it means you are allowing it to grow, which no right-thinking person should do.
namekarB
I agree. However the silver lining is that folks hungered for a good apple and then we started seeing other varieties. In fact I was reading a while back that they are now breeding apple varieties for “taste!” Imagine that. My latest fav has been Honey Crisp
MazeDancer
Knotweed is a powerful antiviral. Tincture is not cheap.
Have no idea if bees can pass along the herbal properties. But it can’t hurt.
H.E.Wolf
Team Granny Smith and MacIntosh here (though the Macs have a very short season at our local co-op grocery). This fall, they briefly had Orleans Reinette, an heirloom variety with a distinctive flavor that I can’t describe (but the internet says it’s citrus-y).
One of my grandfathers was an orchardist, and every fall he’d critique the apple crop at the grocery store in town. He’d have loved seeing the heirloom varieties regain some popularity….
UncleEbeneezer
One more of our fave Korean recipes: Sundubu-jjigae (Spicy soft tofu stew with kimchi and pork belly). This is our go-to for winter time and when we go up to the E. Sierra (if we feel like cooking).
Omnes Omnibus
@H.E.Wolf: Honeycrisp.
germy
@Another Scott:
Cameron
Glad you have such good local options. I’m sure somebody’s posted this link before, here’s a place you can look for the good stuff in your neighborhood:
localharvest.org
When I lived in Pennsylvania, I found a great heritage turkey for Thanksgiving via that site.
Barbara
There is no kind of honey I don’t like but I love love love Nittany apples. Second or third to Cortland and Arkansas Black.
The Mennonite farmstead near me is mostly tapped out but it had stayman apples and sweet potatoes.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@UncleEbeneezer:
Not enough side dishes for even a Korean breakfast.
satby
As it should be.
Another Scott
ObOpenThread – Former Rep. Tom Perriello on how all of Team D won on Friday:
Worth a click.
Cheers,
Scott.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us
@Barbara: I like Cortlands too, and Stayman, which may be the same as Winesap as they sometimes call them Stayman Winesap around here. But those are a hybrid of the two.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Leto: I went to San Antonio for the kid’s BMT graduation; she, her sister and I went for some of the best Korean food there. None of us remember exactly where it was though.
quakerinabasement
These posts are good reminders of what’s important. Thanks, Cole.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@germy:
Hmmm, sounds like city folk. For me, no car, no taking pics. Pretty simple. The car is as essential as the camera and tripod.
Suzanne
I am on Team Honeycrisp. With good peanut butter. Just delicious.
germy
Cheryl Rofer has a thread over at LGM:
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/11/this-is-a-big-win-for-democrats
J R in WV
@Leto:
Here, Russian Olive is an invasive weed, brought in to “reclaim” strip mines. I spray a lethal herbicide on them, cut them with loppers or a small chain saw, they come back still once or twice, very hard to kill. They can kill off native bushes pretty easily.
I’m not criticizing your beekeeper buddies at all, it may not be an invasive in your area, but here, oh man, such a miserable thing for an old guy like me to deal with~!!~ Any time someone can turn an invasive into a good thing, that’s great!
I will confess that in the spring when they bloom…… the aroma in the evenings is so rich and sweet, overwhelmingly so. Richer and more complex than the also invasive honeysuckle vines.
IIRC, someone introduced Poison Ivy from England for the bright red it turns in the fall… good thinking idiot!
suilebhan
Not like buckwheat honey?! It’s rich and wonderful.
Benw
But did your momma cook a breakfast with no hog?
Major Major Major Major
It’s not Korean for me without all the little side dishes, do they include those with takeout?
NotMax
@Leto
Local motorcycle club was (is?) named The Pagodas.
Is The Peanut Bar still around?
Lived in the area for a while back when, first on a large farm in Sinking Spring (RFD 8 address!) then moved to an apartment in Flying Hills.
germy
Major Major Major Major
Hmm but aren’t they just helping it reproduce
sab
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us: God I love winesap. Apparently going extinct which is a huge shame to all applegrowers.
H.E.Wolf
Will check them out!
NotMax
Pretty much the only times I use honey are for bread making and when making a honey-Dijon rub for a slab o’ meat, so not particular about it. The big jug of Kirkland brand serves just fine for those.
Ohio Mom
Ohio Family’s shopping trip today was to the semi-annual used record fair.
Ohio Son was thrilled to find three Capital Steps CDs and an old Eddie Murphy album; I found a Maxwell Smart LP for him for a Hanukah present. I have no idea of what is on this album but figure anything with a cover showing Max on his shoe phone is promising.
One thing about Ohio Son’s autism is how easy it is to sneak something past him. He did not notice I was carrying an extra package. Generally his cluelessness is a liability but every now and then I can use it to my advantage.
NotMax
Rarely eat apples raw (do bake Romes from time to time), last memorable raw one was a variety called Jazz.
zhena gogolia
I don’t really like honey, but a friend has bees and she gave us some and it is incredible.
zhena gogolia
@Suzanne: Oh, yeah.
Ohio Mom
@germy: I took a look, as expected, didn’t take very long on the comments until the cynics and the Eeyores showed up.
There’s a reason I hang out here rather than there, my mood can’t take all that defeatism.
Gin & Tonic
The best apple is the Macoun.
zhena gogolia
sab
Lucy and Grandpa downstairs with Ponyo the toothy pitbull. I am hiding upstairs with Starscream the cat. We do not want to be examined by Lucy.
germy
@Ohio Mom:
The cynics have the run of the place over there. But I enjoy Cheryl’s posts.
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
Biden knows how it’s done.
sab
@Ohio Mom: Wow .As a grandmother of an autistic I am shocked and appalled. /////
laura
@Gin & Tonic: I will wrassle ya, because the Sebastopol Gravenstein is the best apple despite it’s oh so brief availability in early August. The scent is intoxicating, it’s tartness, coloration, juice and renown as an eating, baking and juicing adds up to the scrummiest, so says I. I’ve got 4 freezer bags a chilling with enough chopped unpeeled Grav’s to make 4 apple walnut cake with brown sugar frosting batches and one baked but unfrosted cake that should get us through February. The King Arthur baking recipe is oh, so good!
Suzanne
So I got my Covid booster and my flu shot a couple of hours ago. I’m counting on feeling terrible tomorrow (canceled yoga class and told Spawn that I would be skipping her soccer game), but so far, just minor arm soreness.
Just made Barefoot Contessa’s engagement chicken. My 12th wedding anniversary is next month. I just looked up the traditional gift: linen, silk, and pearl. So I told Mr. Suzanne to get me pearls. He very generously offered to give me a pearl necklace. So that’s how my night is going.
laura
@Ohio Mom: I can’t help but think Ohio Son would appreciate some George Carlin records, or Bob and Ray…
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
sab
Grandpa to Lucy : don’t eat that. It’s catfood.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@zhena gogolia:
sab
Lucy: Is Ponyo an adult puppy? Yes. She is seven.
debbie
@laura:
You’re both wrong. Melrose.
ETA: Or maybe Empire.
Major Major Major Major
@Ohio Mom: wow they have even more than we do?
zhena gogolia
@Major Major Major Major: This place isn’t too bad, especially when it’s been a while since a Manchin press conference.
sab
@Gin & Tonic: Agree
Barbara
@zhena gogolia: I can’t even imagine what that might mean to someone.. The presidentof the United States thinks your daughter is the boss. It just makes me feel good.
sab
Chop up and freeze apples as if for pie filling. They will work fine months later. You will just have to bang on rhem wirh a mallet to break them up. Otherwise rhey will be fine Season with sugar and cinnamon before freezing.
sab
Two hours later and Ponyo still downstairs wirh Lucy. Mutual adoration society.
ETA Starscream the Cat hiding upstairs.
Major Major Major Major
@zhena gogolia: so 2020. (When the doomers also swarmed every thread…) ?
Starfish
@Suzanne: That’s how it went. Not quite as bad as the second shot.
Baud
@sab:
?
Betsy
I never understood when I was a kid why my older relatives raved about Red Delicious apples. I only know the dry, woody, styrofoam-like crunchers from the store. But they were from orchard country.
eclare
@zhena gogolia: Awww…what a sweet touch! And so deserving.
laura
@debbie: It’s wrassle time you! ?
eclare
@Suzanne: Hahaha….I got a flu shot and Moderna booster one week ago. Felt crappy waking up on Sunday, but that went away, and other than a sore arm for two days I was fine.
Kristine
Those honeys sound great, Cole.
HeleninEire
So the only reaction I had to my Shingles vax is extreme sleepiness. Not fatigue or exhaustion, just sleepy.
Between 8am and 6pm today I’ve had three 2 hour naps! As a chronic insomniac I have to say it was rather pleasant.
gwangung
@eclare: Yeah, I think I can spare a day feeling crappy for the protection.
Likely to do that for the rest of my life, but I sure don’t feel bad about it.
VeniceRiley
@germy: I am pro electric car until men stop touching female strangers on public transit. Go make that happen, and I’ll be all for it.
eclare
@gwangung: Same. Tell me that I am eligible for a shot, I’ll be there.
steppy
@NotMax: Peanut Bar is indeed still around.
As someone who hates invasives, I think knotweed is horrible. As a beekeeper, I am glad to have around so they can build up stores for winter.
MagdaInBlack
@Betsy: Father Benny who kept the orchard at the local benedictine monastery ( St Bede, Spring Valley, IL) when I lived out there, taught me they are good if they’re allowed to ripen on the tree. Problem is we don’t get ripe ones. And they are good. Not my type of good, I prefer Jonathon, but good.
eddie blake
@sab: you named your cat starscream? that’s pretty awesome. the cat is more than meets the eye.
jl
Sounds good, and I for one Californian into local farm food, is jealous of the WV bounty Cole is enjoying.
jl
Except, how does the ‘local business’ with the Japanese knotweed honey thing work? Do the local bees fly all the way to Japan to get some Japanese Knotweed, or what?
Major Major Major Major
I got my Moderna booster Thursday. Way less shitty than the second shot. Still not fun!
Kayla Rudbek
I have to find out whether treadmill knitting will record steps with the smartwatch. Bicycle riding doesn’t record that many steps…:( but it was a glorious day to go riding and trying to find the long cross county trail.
And after reading the post, I want a hot dessert. I don’t think that we have that many apples on hand, so it may be lemon blueberry almond cornmeal cake again.
gwangung
@Major Major Major Major: Lower dosage, I bet.
I wonder if the Pfizers trend to lower reaction because of the smaller dosages. I mean, feeling crappy (and maybe a half degree of fever) is a lot less than the super sleepiness and headaches and higher fevers I’ve been hearing about.
jl
@Major Major Major Major: I got 2 shots of Pfizer and then the health center place where I work made me get a booster. That is semi-bogus because I rarely go into patient care areas, but I think they wanted everyone boosted on rationale everyone mingles with the clinicians.
I never had a bad reaction. Just felt queasy and tired like I was about to come down with flu for two or three days, then felt fine.
Major Major Major Major
@gwangung: yeah I heard that the main difference is Pfizer optimized their doses for fewer side effects and Moderna just decided to blast you with as much as they could. Might be why Moderna seems to be effective for longer.
Steeplejack
@sab:
Who is Lucy?
prostratedragon
Introduced by Johnny Carson and his lapels:
Major Major Major Major
@jl: I believe that’s known as a bad reaction!
eclare
@gwangung: I was super sleepy after the second Moderna. As an insomniac, I enjoyed the rest.
jl
@gwangung: That’ what I heard from the infectious disease docs and immunologists around here. It also may have something to do with the US still insisting that people get shots exactly on the schedule of the randomized vaccine trials, with doses much closer to each other than other vaccines for similar bugs, and probably increases the pain while reducing the gain.
So many other countries seeing fewer side effects and longer lasting antibodies that are directly produced by the vaccine to straight into blood (as opposed to more gradual build up of B- and T-cell immunity in lymph nodes and bone marrow), because they space the two shots out longer like we do with other vaccines.
All the experts I talk with around here say the US is being a slave to the vaccine RCT study designs that were made to get approval for a successful vaccine asap, not to find out how to get maximum effectiveness of vaccine.
I am not a doctor and I don’t play one on TV, but that’s what the clinical experts who know this stuff tell me.
gwangung
@Major Major Major Major: Possibly more revenue, too, but that looks to be a secondary consideration. Lower side effects is something you can argue for.
Miss Bianca
I was just in Maryland and Virginia this past week, and got introduced to Snapdragon apples, which are my niece’s favorite (they are pretty tasty, gotta say – really nice blend of sweet and tart).
Also, when I was driving through VA, saw a lot of produce stands, some touting sorghum honey. Anyone have any thoughts on sorghum honey?
Also, too, caught up with Balloon Juicer PAM Dirac and had a delightful time visiting and sampling some of his wine as well as local meads. YUM!
Suzanne
So I got Moderna for the first two, and then just got Pfizer for the booster. I was going to be selective and try to get Moderna again, but then I figured that convenience was key and just went to the CVS two blocks down the street and took whatever they had. Mr. Suzanne did the same on Thursday, and he felt pretty rough yesterday, but was feeling good enough this morning to go do yoga with me, and he feels normal now.
Miss Bianca
@sab: Noo! What’s up with Winesaps? I love them, too.
@Betsy: I remember the first time I had a Red Delicious off the neighbor’s tree when I lived in western CO. A real revelation – like, “wow, that’s what they’re SUPPOSED to taste like?!”
Yutsano
@eddie blake: I may have mentioned it before, but the voice actor for the original Starscream (the 1980s version) is a friend of mine. Also did the old school Cobra Commander. He would love to be the 15th Doctor.* Life long dream of a Brit who made his bones in the Vancouver acting scene.
jl
@Suzanne: Welp, clinical experts I talk with at my gig say you probably will get stronger and longer lasting immunity by mixing, so if they are right, you’re ahead of us other plugs.
I just got Pfizer for first two then booster, even though I wanted Moderna for the booster. When I asked they just droned through the protocol and told me I was getting Pfizer because thems are the rules. They are doing everything by the official CDC book here. Odd that some of their own experts are complaining about that.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl:
Have you stayed in a Holiday Inn Express recently?
Abnormal Hiker
@Gin & Tonic: Macouns are wonderful. It’s the name for my backup disk on my MacBook.
jl
@Miss Bianca: IMHO, all apple varieties can be awesome if they’re grown right and picked right and got to the market right. And you show up at the right time.
If an apple’s supply chain is right, any variety can be above average.
jl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: People here are trying to have grown-up conversations today.
Odd, but it happens once in a while.
zhena gogolia
Good story on Katie Porter in Vanity Fair. She’s not my fave, but I’m learning about her background.
debbie
@gwangung:
I had headaches for a couple of days after each shot of Pfizer. Maybe a smidge of fever. Any aches I had were the ones I usually have.
Suzanne
@jl: I figure that the difference in effectiveness is statistically significant, but that getting any booster now is more important than any marginal difference.
I have Spawn the Younger scheduled for her shot on Monday afternoon, but I rolled the dice and asked if they could do it today. They said no, that only some of the CVS locations are doing kids’ vaccines. I will note that I tried to book her shot with our pediatrician first, but CVS had availability sooner.
eclare
@Miss Bianca: Sounds like a wonderful visit! Never heard of snapdragon apples
Does anyone here like Gala? That’s my fave, but I’m not anywhere close to orchards, so supermarket it is. And I can find Gala at Kroger.
The Dangerman
One of the reasons I live where I do. Gopher Glen in the Avila Beach area has great apples, Linns in Cambria has the most wonderful Ollaliberry products (if it’s open go to the farm, not the restaurant), and Poly has the best Satsuma around. It should be illegal it’s so damn good.
Oh yeah the local Pinot is fine too
debbie
@eclare:
After all the really good apples disappear, I get Gala or Honeycrisp if they’re on sale.
sab
@eclare: Galas are everywhere. I love them, not as much as the traditionals, but still very much.
jl
@Suzanne: “I figure that the difference in effectiveness is statistically significant, but that getting any booster now is more important than any marginal difference.”
I don’t think anyone is going to know for sure for a few years until we see what the real world experience and continuing clinical trials say.
I hope the experts who tell me that the boosters should be the only thing most average risk people will need for decades, or maybe the rest of their lives.
But, no way to know yet.
sab
@eddie blake: He is a tuxedo part siamese with a siamese voice. Sweetest guy ever but when he has issues, usually 3 a.m. he stands in the upstairs hall and voices his displeasure.
sab
@Ohio Mom: I would love to meet your son. He has interesting interests.
Cameron
@jl: I’m going to continue masking in public for a while. Can’t hurt; might help.
eddie blake
@sab: he sounds very handsome. that’s adorable.
we’ve got ours well-trained, or as well trained as cats can be. i feed them dinner always at the same time and snack them at one thirty-ish. then they pester my partner in the morning to get up and serve them.
so no nightly yowls, but there’s always an awful amount of consternation in the breakfast-times.
NotMax
Speaking of Reading, recipe for cream of mushroom soup as served up at Joe’s, where mushrooms were king.
sab
@eddie blake: My stepson named him. He names them all after Transformers. Starscream fits his name. Megatron, the sweet, effeminate little girl we just call Meg for short, because her full name is so utterly inappropriate.
gwangung
@Cameron: To be honest, masking in wintertime is a bit more comfy, though I think the highest benefit is when you’re the one who’s feeling a bit sick…
jl
@Cameron: I got no problem with vaccinated people going masked or unmasked, whatever helps them get out and live their lives again.
I had a big argument with a wingnut relative about masks. I did a little demo and showed him that it took me less than a second to go from masked to unmasked and for that reason did not feel enslaved, or a serf to the totalitarian Newsom and CA DPH, or I was slapped in solitary forever by a mask. He found my reasoning odd and irrelevant, completely obscure.
Leto
@J R in WV: I’m not exactly sure if it’s invasive here; I guess it probably it is, but they seem to be making it work!
@NotMax: we’re just down the road from Sinking Springs. We live on the boarder of Reading and Wyomissing. Not sure about a motorcycle club named The Pagoda’s, but we spent about a half hour just looking at the amazing colors on display as well as all the surrounding communities. It was really nice.
@?BillinGlendaleCA: when we lived in Biloxi, there was this amazing little place off Pass Rd. Think it had maybe six tables in it. Always full.
sab
@eddie blake: If I could rename him he would be Shaq, because he is very big, extremely athletic, very pleasant, and ever so slightly cross eyed (siamese). But the naming him ship has sailed.
eclare
@NotMax: That recipe sounds decadent!
NotMax
Apples can also be put into service in making a version of a classic gastrique.
schrodingers_cat
@germy: Not everyone lives in dense urban areas where buses and public transport are practical.
raven
Go Dawgs!
sab
If you chop up seasonal app.es for pie, youcan season them with sugar and cinnamon and bake them in the pie as needed. My husband had to bang on the frozen pie pieces with a cooking mallet for a bit, but they went into the pie and cooked up fine. Quite delicious.
Cameron
@gwangung: I have COPD and live in Florida, where it is a state ritual to have people spend all day wandering around with leaf blowers forcing particulate horseshit into the atmosphere. If I had any brains, I’d have started wearing a mask years ago.
TheflipPsyd
OT? It was a beautiful day in the Mid-Atlantic. We hit all three States in the tri-state area DE, PA, and NJ. Drove to Philadelphia to the Museum of the American Revolution for an Occupied Philadelphia live event. The date was November 7, 1777 and the British were occupying Philadelphia. Amazing colonial and British garb and everyone we spoke with really were into their roles and had great stories about life in colonial times. If anyone is in the area, it is a really interesting museum and a great area to explore.
Haven’t been feeling very hopeful about the United States lately, but despite all my doubts about the present and future, I always become emotional listening to the declaration of independence, the constitution, etc. I also really appreciated the introductory film that the museum shows. It is a very good summary of the truly revolutionary nature of our founding documents but also recognizes and addresses the issue of slavery and our treatment of the native tribes. One of the statements towards the end states that the United States has not fulfilled the promise of equality for all.
The one funny story is that when we were buying tickets, there was a man arguing about the mask policy and my 12-year old son got so much glee out of watching the interaction and then making fun of the guy- quietly. That was his first experience with someone who is anti mask. He was so funny in saying all the reasons the guy was selfish and an idiot. The kids are alright.
The Dangerman
@NotMax: I don’t get the recipe but the home page for the Orlando paper. What am I doing wrong besides watching too much football?
Cameron
@jl: Your choice, but I try never to argue with wingnuts. As (I think it was) Twain said, never wrestle with a pig – you get mud all over yourself and the pig likes it.
Ohio Mom
@laura: Introducing Ohio Son to Bob and Ray is a very fond memory — I gave him a multi-disc anthology and we listened to it all together on a long car trip (where were we going, I don’t remember). He has some Carlin too, but he found that on his own.
NotMax
@sab
Wonder if using one of the defrost settings on the microwave would do it without involving an upper body workout.
Sure Lurkalot
@Suzanne: Your night is enviable! Happy anniversary next month, wear the pearls with love and yea, one more of your kiddos will get the vax.
Cameron
@TheflipPsyd: Wow. This is the kind of thing that makes me miss Philly. Never did have a chance to visit the museum before I moved.
eddie blake
@sab: the naming of cats ship never sails. it just sits in the biggest sunbeam in the port, knocking over barrels as it pleases.
“the naming of cats is a difficult matter,
It isn’t just one of your holiday games;
you may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter
when i tell you, a cat must have three different names.
eta- yeah, it’s hard to say just how many different names we have for hamilton the monkey or catie the potatey. because there are a LOT.
sab
Lucy, lisening to anime, has learned quite a bit of Japanese. In my family, where my sister is an Asian art histoian and one of her great aunts was an actual Japanese war bride, Lucy’s Japanese is not quite up to standards.
lowtechcyclist
I agree that it was a crime against humanity, but I’m 67 and it happened either before I was born or when I was too young to remember. Because back in the late 1950s through early 1970s when I was growing up, Red and Golden ‘Delicious’ were practically all the grocery stores had, and they tasted too boring to want to eat even a quarter of an apple, and that’s why I was nearly 50 before I realized that there were apples that actually tasted good.
H.E.Wolf
@eddie blake: Effin’ ineffable! :)
TheflipPsyd
@Cameron: i live in Northern Delaware now and we don’t get up there as much as we used to. Realized today how much I missed city living. If you ever get back there, that museum and the Constitution Center are a great combo.
NotMax
@The Dangerman
Me no know. Here it is, copied and pasted from the link:
NotMax
@NotMax
wate = water
No idea how that oddity took place when simply c&p-ing.
Ohio Mom
@sab: Next summer we WILL have a meet-up in Columbus, because by then, Covid will be under control (if it isn’t, I’ll be in bed, crying instead).
lowtechcyclist
@Suzanne:
For some reason I’ve now got ZZTop running through my head. Can’t imagine why. :-)
Gvg
@J R in WV: Poison ivy is native to here. It’s relative is Virginia creeper which was imported to England for fall color there.
eclare
@raven: I think they may win it all this year. UT grad…not happy to admit that.
eclare
@lowtechcyclist: Hahaha….
sab
@Ohio Mom: Yay!
VFX Lurker
@John Cole: You might enjoy this Los Angeles County Library presentation on Korean cuisine. In an hour and a half, culinary historian Hae Jung Cho covers a lot of ground. ?
Warning: you may not want to watch this presentation while hungry. ?
Cameron
@TheflipPsyd: I lived in the Philly area for about 45 years, the last 20 or so in Center City. Always a fan of Olde City; well, Philly in general. Did have a chance to explore some other parts of PA, which was very cool (things like passing a historical marker in Bumfuck Central Pennsylvania noting that this was where Joseph Priestley, English oxygen-discovery dude, died). Do check out the Uncoveringpa.com website – you’re in a better position to get around there than I am. Not knocking Florida – there’s a whole lot of stuff here I never dreamed of (before there was Hollywood, there was Jacksonville; I need to get over there some day).
TheflipPsyd
@Cameron: Great website. I’m always looking for daytrips. I grew up in Germantown and lived in Philly for 35 years. If anyone had told me I’d end up in Delaware, I would have laughed at them. Been here for 15 years, which seems crazy to me but it’s home now.
Cameron
@TheflipPsyd: Hmm. I like what parts of Delaware I’ve been in. Obviously, being so much smaller it can’t offer all the stuff PA can, but the folks I know who live there seem to like it.
I’m not from Philly – parents were from a little town outside Pittsburgh and I grew up mostly overseas (Daddy worked for oil companies). After a series of self-induced unfortunate events, I wound up settled in Philly. Didn’t regret it.
Shana
@UncleEbeneezer: We’ve been doing a lot of korean in the past year too. Started watching kdramas and were kind of amazed at the food in the shows, communal meals are a big thing. Hubby bought a couple of cookbooks and a bag of gochurgaru. Plus we live a few miles from an HMart. Cut way back on the amount of gochugaru and gochujang at least initially but have been really enjoying it.
Tomorrow night we finish Hospital Playlist so I’m making ground beef with gochujang and pinenuts, seasoned pickled radish, green beans, rice, lettuce, and have soju while we watch.