JeffreyW went to the Farmer’s Market and of course he brought back photos:
This array of mushrooms caught my eye, those closest are oyster mushrooms, I think those at the far end are Shiitakes, and a Google search leads me to believe that those in the middle are pink oysters.
Our main aim was to bring out some nice tomatoes and cucumbers for the summer salad that we’ve become addicted to. I just put this one together with seasoned rice vinegar for a dressing. We really like the flavor it adds. These will be much better tomorrow and even better the next day.
I brought home a few zucchinis and some yellow squash, thinking they would be tasty with a quick saute and a drizzle of balsamic glaze. Google tells me that shaved squash is a thing – who knew? These have a dressing of 3 tablespoons each of olive oil and fresh lemon juice, a couple of crushed cloves of garlic, and a little chopped mint, chives, and parsley. Salt the shaved veggies down and let them rest for a while, then rinse the salt off, drain on paper towels, and add the dressing. A brief nibble told me that they were tasty enough to be worth the effort. I imagine they, too, will be better on the morrow.
There are puppehs (including Katie), kittehs (Homer!) and pizza at the link.
What’s everyone up to tonight? TV? Movie? Sports? A good book? Consider this your evening open thread.
(I scheduled this to auto-post, so hoping it works)
benw
The tomato-cucumber salad looks delicious! Have you tried adding feta? I’m heading into NYC tomorrow. The wife and daughter are doing a ballet workshop and I’m taking the boys to the Children’s museum. Going to be a fun, long day.
JPL
Katie found a home.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
Your auto-post worked so well that it stomped on John Cole. I am way too easily amused sometimes.
We’re going out to dinner and then will probably come home and watch TV. Because that’s what middle-aged introverts do.
redshirt
@Mnemosyne (tablet):
She has become Anne Laurie, Stomper of Posts.
Elizabelle
@JPL: Who’s Katie?
mclaren
Sounds like a bunch of shiitake to me.
raven
ATLANTA | Georgia will resume selling specialty license plates featuring a Confederate battle flag after halting sales earlier this summer.
Local news media report that the Department of Revenue and the Georgia chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans said this week they reached an agreement on a redesign. It could be ready early next week.
JPL
@Elizabelle: Jeffrey’s wife rescued a dog and shortly after she got loose. It took a long time before they were able to convince her, that their house was safe.
If you look at his pictures, Katie is sleeping on the floor and a white cat is on the sofa.
benw
@raven:
. Not consulted on the redesign: all of the black people in Georgia.
raven
@efgoldman: Not the Illini win over MTSU???
raven
@efgoldman: Oswkeewow!
raven
@efgoldman:
Old Princeton yells her tiger
Wisconsin her varsity
And they give the same old Rah!
Rah! Rah!
At each university
But the yell that always thrills me,
And fills my heart with joy,
Is the good old Oskee-wow-wow,
That they yell at Illinois
Oskee-wow-wow, Illinois
Our eyes are all on you
Oskee-wow-wow, Illinois
Wave your Orange and Blue, Rah! Rah!
When your team trots out before you
Ev’ry man stand up and yell
Back the team to gain a victory
Oskee-wow-wow, Illinois
jl
Now I want shaved squash. But how do you shave squash?
Do I need a super expensive cusinart thing? Or one of them kitchen mandolins work?
I figure no point in trying my safety razor.
jl
No links, because not worth it, but must be lunar eclipse causing strange things.
News story says Cruz has ‘rocket fuel’? He selling drugs?
Another one says some place is requiring female lawyers visiting clients in jail to take off their bras? The guy lawyers don’t have to take off their bras, or even their girdles?
Some bigot gun nut shoots himself in his dick on accident and tries to blame a black guy.
I ain’t going out tonight, that’s for sure.
MomSense
@Mnemosyne (tablet):
I’m laughing because this middle aged introvert went to a 30th birthday party. We met at puppy class and they are a lot of fun- but wow they are young.
redshirt
@jl: Maine is making the news way too often lately for all the wrong reasons.
Wonkette has regular posts about our esteemed Governor. It ain’t right.
jibeaux
@jl: you can do it with a veggie peeler.
Amir Khalid
This BBC story from 18 months ago is about earwax. It mentions, among other things, that Asians’ earwax doesn’t smell as bad as white peoples’ earwax. Alas, I don’t come from that part of Asia.
jeffreyw
@JPL: That’s Annie on the sofa with Queen Bea, but you are not wrong that Katie has found a home.
redshirt
@Amir Khalid:
Different color too.
raven
Auburn SUCKS!!!!
JPL
@jeffreyw: Thanks for the correction. That made me smile.
BillinGlendaleCA
@OP: “You want mushrooms?” No, I don’t do fungus.
Felonius Monk
@Amir Khalid: Mushrooms and earwax — a wonderful combination. Reminds me when I was a little boy, my dad would tell me every time I took a bath: “Wash your ears good, you don’t want mushrooms growing in there.” :)
Amir Khalid
@efgoldman:
I only found it just now. Honest.
redshirt
I wonder how people discovered edible mushrooms back in history. It must have involved a lot of death. I mean, there are some mushrooms that are fine unless you mix them with alcohol, for example, then you die.
What a food group!
ruemara
Pink oyster mushrooms are gorgeous & delicious. There used to be a mushroom grower that showed up to the farmer’s market where I live. Some of the most perfect, biggest pink oysters, regular oysters & portobella mushrooms ever. Plus he grew a fantastic salad mix that you could get in a 2lb bag. Then he moved off to some hellhole way too far away.
BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman: No, I’m pure.
Tommy
Very religious people are just flat out crazy. Long story short mom and dad in town. It is Wednesday.
My cousin on my mom’s side was at a bible study class at church and she goes into a seizure. She is six months pregnant. In under an hour she is being medevacked out of the place to a larger, better hospital. Put into a coma by the docs and the baby induced for delivery.
I’ve not seen or talked to her in like eight years. We’re not close with that side of my family, which will make sense in a few seconds.
I guess there is a service kind of like Facebook, where you can set-up a site to let people follow what is going on with a sick family member. We were checking it if not by the minute, then at least hourly. Things got way, way worse for Laurie and her child.
Well long story short she is getting better if not worse.
We go to read the message where we learn this and in a graph or two they said “thank god” and “prayer” like two dozens times. NEVER once thanked their doctors or nurses.
Then they I think just called out at least my family. Saying Laurie was better even if “everybody in her family that could pray and sit with her wasn’t around, she rose about it.” It went on from there.
redshirt
Fungus is the future.
Tommy
@redshirt:
Given mushrooms are on the extreme of the list, but as a foodie I often wonder how people discovered you can eat a lot of things :). A group of humans in like 40,000 BC. Hungry. This new food they see and one says to the other, “we need to eat. Our families need to eat. But what is that? I don’t know try it. I tried that shit last time, your turn.”
BillinGlendaleCA
@Tommy: Hey Tommy, I decided to try Lightroom and Photoshop. I’m really liking Lightroom, but I’ve had one problem. If I select edit a copy with Lightroom changes with Photoshop, it deletes all the other photos in the folder. It’s rather disconcerting opening a folder and fining only 2 photos when there should be 200. Ever hear anything like this happening.
BillinGlendaleCA
@redshirt:
I obviously have no future then, but y’all already knew that.
Tommy
@BillinGlendaleCA: Well one like you enjoy the app I suggested. But as to your problem, nope never heard of that. That is troubling to say the least. If you have a licensed version I’d be making a phone call to Adobe yesterday. Are you using the “cloud” version of the app where you pay by the month?
redshirt
@Tommy:
Yeah it blows my mind because everything we eat today was discovered by people a long time ago, through trial and error and luck and probably a few smart folks in every civilization that allowed for the independent rise of agriculture around the world roughly at the same time – that is in Middle East/Anatolia, India, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, South America, Central America.
Then consider how foods were highly regional for ever, until humans got boats and started trading and that weird banana tree is spreading everywhere.
Italy never knew the tomato until the 1500’s.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Tommy: I’m using the “cloud version”, I’m going to try to see if I can work around it with export and then open in Photoshop.
redshirt
@efgoldman:
I assume it was all dares. “THROG, I dare u eat {fungus}”
Or accidents. And maybe some times by the scientific method.
Tommy
@redshirt: It blows my mind as well.
My parents are in town this week staying with me. I am nothing close to a vegan. I love me some meat. But I might have like 20 kinds of different rices and mixes of rices in my house. What I eat most days. Mom and dad are like, “dude WTF, we knew you said this, but only spend a few days with you, didn’t know a week or so staying with you it was true.” I joked a few billion people in the middle east and Asian have lived on rice since like the dawn of mankind, why don’t you try it for a few days. I don’t think you will starve to death :).
They went to Subway …………
Tommy
@BillinGlendaleCA: That issue you ran into is very strange. Your tech skills are above mine so you know not being at your computer it is hard if not impossible for me to say what happened. Just happy you are enjoying the program.
TaMara (BHF)
@jeffreyw: Oh, sorry, my mistake. I thought Homer and Katie were sleeping buddies. But here it that photo of them
I think you can see why I might be confused, LOL
Tommy
@redshirt:
LOL from your comment off the above. I almost mentioned this because those are like they favorite foods. Shellfish. I recall after Katrina hit New Orleans a writer for a local newspaper wrote an op-ed to to the American public saying we’re coming to your community because we need your help, so there are a few things you need to know about us.
He said they might show up at their homes where one of the only possessions was their shrimping boots. Eat things they might hire an exterminator to kill. Fish in a different manner. Bury their dead in LSU shirts. Please don’t judge us, we never judged you when you came to our state, and so many of you have, to let loose.
I learned to eat anything and everything first as a grad student at LSU. I was sitting with this lady the other day, been on only a few dates, watching this adventure TV show where a person kills and are about to eat an alligator.
She is freaking out and I am telling her how to cook it. I think 40,000 years ago her genetic line would have died out :)!!!!!!!!!
redshirt
@efgoldman:
No doubt. But, I recall reading something a while ago about the grass eaters of the Ukraine. Consider you see all these aurochs just eating grass all day long. Tastes great! So you try it of course. And try it. And keep trying.
Not so great. So while following animal leads was probably in general a good formula, plenty of times it didn’t work, and many of those failures led to death.
Tommy
@redshirt: Correct me if I am mistaken but isn’t it kind of accepted science if you are not a far left loon that we Homo Sapiens are what we are because like 500,000 years ago (if not much further back) started to eat protein in our diets and that increased the size of our brains?
redshirt
@Tommy: Yeah, that’s the story as I understand it.
We’ve also had control of fire for a very long time. 1 million years ago and it seems like the number keeps getting pushed back. So cooking is probably very old.
Tommy
@redshirt: I can’t keep up with the years or timeframe anymore because as you said it keeps getting pushed back. I saw a thing on a Nat Geo dig, and they unearthed shit you can touch that seems to indicate organized cities and religion back 10,000 years a go. Some think many years before that.
I am not talking about an earthen city, but artwork, pillars, advance stone work with what appears to be writing. They can’t explain it because it appears that whoever created it, at sometime they just buried it themselves and left the area.
I often joke that if I could start my college life over again I’d not have gone into marketing, but archeology! But nobody told me how cool history or archaeology was when I was in college. I was taught to make a “buck.”
Those bastards ……
redshirt
@Tommy: Got any link or names? I’d love to read about cities from 10000BCE. And I don’t doubt it. Archaeology and Paleontology is pretty random, who knows what we haven’t found, or, can never find because it’s destroyed?
I mean random in what they can find. I don’t doubt there’s tons of scientific thought applied to the quest to find more ruins/bones.
Tommy
@redshirt: Well I figured the link would be easy to find. It isn’t. Got your screen name and when I am on my other computer with Google Play video and I can see the said video, I will pull it. I own it.
Swear I am not making this up. The dig is such and what they found will blow your mind. What they have uncovered now is like a basketball sized area (in a circle), but they know think that is just a small part of all that is there.
jl
@jibeaux: Thanks. I should have thought of that. Except my veggie peeler is so old and dull, it would just mush them up. I’ll get a fancy new veggie peeler, I guess they are fairly cheap.
Tommy
@jl: I bought a high-end one a few years ago (under $15). I always had one that was old, dull, you name it. Be careful, a new/nice veggie peeler will take your skin off the same as that of what you want to eat (said as a person with experience).
joel hanes
I’ve wondered who the first humans were to eat lobster, clams, and oysters
The answer is the same for all of these.
Starving people were the first to try things. Many of them died.
redshirt
@joel hanes: I hadn’t thought of it like that. But you’re right. Starving people would eat anything and that which didn’t kill them, as they say.
And we all know now that food processing ability in a gut is really about the bacteria that live and work there. So it’s really a story about gut bacteria.
Splitting Image
Three weeks to go in the longest campaign in Canadian history. Three months after it is over, the already interminable presidential election will move into the primary season. Ordinarily I’d gloat, but there is still a chance that Stephen Harper will end up with the most seats.
At least it looks as though my riding will toss out its do-nothing Conservative.
Crooks and Liars has reprinted an article from the Lexington Herald-Leader suggesting that Rand Paul will be the next candidate to drop out. Surprising if true, but on the other hand, he did drop a bundle of money to bribe Kentucky into holding a caucus instead of a primary. If his fundraising has dried up, I could see him being in a pickle. Christie and Jindal were my picks as the next dropouts, so it looks like I might be wrong again.
henqiguai
@efgoldman (#54):
Then we’re back to that ‘sentient fungus’ you earlier postulated. But I’d likely dispute the ‘sentient’.
Southern Beale
I tried the shaved squash thing. It came out slimy. I can’t do zucchini except one way: sauteed in olive oil with dill and a spritz of lemon juice.