I made my first dutch baby in my new pie plate.
And I picked another batch of strawberries from my garden.
If you want to talk politics, we can start with this. If not, talk about anything you like.
Bob Bauer is back on the case, and I am happy to have him. He kept me calm in the days right after the 2020 election, and hopefully he can do the same thing now.
State Election Officials Are Under Attack. We Will Defend Them.
Bob Bauer and
Mr. Bauer, a Democratic lawyer, and Mr. Ginsberg, a Republican lawyer, were co-chairs of the 2013-14 Presidential Commission on Election Administration.
Tucked into many of the election laws Republicans are pushing or enacting in states around the country are pernicious provisionsthreatening punishment of elections officials and workers for just doing their jobs.
Laws like those already passed in Republican-controlled states like Georgia and Iowa, no matter their stated intent, will be used as a weapon of intimidation aimed at the people, many of them volunteers, charged with running fair elections at the local and state levels. By subjecting them to invasive, politically motivated control by a state legislative majority, these provisions shift the last word in elections from the pros to the pols. This is a serious attack on the crucial norm that our elections should be run on a professional, nonpartisan basis — and it is deeply wrong.
It is so wrong that having once worked together across the partisan divide as co-chairs of the 2013-14 Presidential Commission on Election Administration, we have decided to come together again to mobilize the defense of election officials who may come under siege from these new laws.
Totally open thread.
WaterGirl
I just got email from the University of Illinois, but this applies to Pell grants everywhere.
Call-to-Action!
Double the Pell Grant!
Ask your federal legislators to bring an affordable, high-quality college education within reach for all students by doubling the maximum federal Pell Grant award.
Background Information about the Pell Grant:
Pell Grants are the foundation of our nation’s investment in higher education, providing critical support for nearly 7 million low- and moderate-income students to attend and complete college.
The size of the Pell Grant has not kept pace with the increasing costs of attending college and the share of costs covered by the grant is at an all-time low. At its peak funding level in 1975-76, the maximum Pell Grant award covered more than 75 percent of the cost of attending a four-year public university. Today, the maximum award of $6,495 covers just 28 percent of that cost.
Pell Grants are especially critical for students of color as nearly 60 percent of Black students, half of American Indian or Alaska Native students, and nearly half of Latinx students receive Pell Grants each year.
Doubling the Pell Grant would:
Ease the student loan burden – Roughly 40 percent of undergraduates receive Pell Grants nationally each year, but few can rely on it to fully finance a four-year degree.
Help students meet their basic needs – Too many students struggle to pay for food, housing, and health care. More Pell funding can help address these essential needs.
Click the link at this site to urge federal legislators to double the Pell Grant.
bluehill
Those are some delicious looking strawberries!
WaterGirl
@bluehill: Thank you! They look and taste like strawberries used to, before most of what you get at the grocery store were hard and white on the inside.
These are a french hybrid and the taste is delightful! This is the second huge bowl I have picked in the past 6 days.
Litlebritdifrnt
That’s not a dutch baby it’s a yorkshire pudding!
Old School
I’ve never heard of a dutch baby, but it looks tasty.
WaterGirl
@Litlebritdifrnt: Is yorkshire pudding made with 3 eggs, flour, a touch of sugar, milk and butter?
Ken
I had never heard of “dutch babies” before. I have to wonder — as I do about brownies — whether they originated as a mistake that was happily re-purposed. “Dang! The cake fell. Hmm, doesn’t taste bad….
WaterGirl
@Old School: Have you heard of a german pancake? The dutch baby is the SMALLER version of the german pancake.
Around here, it is served with fresh lemons and powdered sugar.
It occurred to me as I looked at the two photos at the top – I might have tried the dutch baby with the fresh strawberries. I wonder what that is like?
WaterGirl
@Ken: Except there are no ingredients to make it rise!
debbie
@bluehill:
Seconded. The strawberries have been extra delicious this year.
I just rewarded myself with Graeters (one scoop dark chocolate brownie, one scoop Viennese coffee) after sailing through a visit to the dentist.
Ken
Close. Replace the butter with rendered beef fat, then bake the whole thing in more rendered beef fat.
WaterGirl
@Ken: I shudder at the thought. I guess it’s all in what you were raised with.
Ken
@WaterGirl: That must be the happy accident part. Does it look like it rose while in the oven, then deflate like every soufflé that’s ever appeared in a TV show?
germy
WaterGirl
@debbie: My new favorite ice cream is Haagen Dazs mint chip ice cream. They don’t use the awful green food coloring, and the chips are little flat pieces of good chocolate, not the cheap, crappy chocolate that some brands use.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Done correctly, it is a wonder and a delight. It is also NOT a dessert.
ETA: I will brook no culinary critique from one who bakes children.
Ken
@WaterGirl: Also when you were raised. As a cookbook I once read put it, until relatively recently no one threw out bacon grease, beef tallow, or any other sort of fat. That was the good part.
Benw
Nice dutch baby! We make ours in our cast iron skillet.
Our go-to topping for dutch baby is cardamom apples, but they are also delish with strawberries and whipped cream.
WaterGirl
@Ken: I don’t think it does. Though I try not to open the door while it’s cooking. The center part might be 1/4 inch puffier when you take it out of the oven, and then it flattens out.
WaterGirl
@Benw: Okay, I will try it with the fresh strawberries next time.
These are supposed to be ever-bearing, so I should have them all summer. fingers crossed.
Old School
@WaterGirl:
I thought you had. When I Googled “dutch baby”, fresh berries was one of the suggested toppings.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Neither is the dutch baby, which is a breakfast food.
Roger Moore
@WaterGirl:
Some of the modern hybrids give lie to the idea that all the modern innovations in plant breeding are responsible for lousy food. The problem isn’t with modern plant breeding; it’s what the breeders select for. If they focus only on visual appeal, yield, disease resistance, and ability to survive a tough trip to the market, you’ll wind up with enormous, bright red strawberries that taste like styrofoam. If they breed for flavor, you get wonderful strawberries like Gaviotas and Mara de Bois. I don’t really like strawberries that much, but even I like the modern hybrids that are focused on taste.
WaterGirl
@Old School: I will try that next time, and will have pictures to prove it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I’m very hungry, trying to stick to a diet, and now all I want is a giant plate of bloody roast beef with a Yorkshire pudding. With horseradish
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Just for the record, can you substitute a Belgian child if necessary?
WaterGirl
@Roger Moore: These are ‘Fragaria ‘Mara des Bois’ – one of the ones you mentioned.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: In a pinch, yes.
germy
WaterGirl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: The son of the family that grows the best horseradish in Illinois used to work for me. That was some really great horseradish.
WaterGirl
@germy:
Reading that, I am bouncing between absolute rage and nausea.
NotMax
@Litlebritdifrnt
Oh, sure. Bring up Yorkshire pudding (yum) just when I’m putting together the preliminary memory’s not what it used to be shopping list for the monthly grocery run later this week.
;)
Still debating with what foodstuff to inaugurate a newly acquired piece of cookware.
dmsilev
My neighbors made national news over the weekend!
Los Angeles County prepares to crack down as peacocks — yes, peacocks — ruffle feathers
(I’m in the loud-parrot part of Pasadena, not the loud-peacock part, but still)
germy
@WaterGirl:
Frank Wilhoit
@dmsilev: what kind of parrots?
WaterGirl
@germy: Rage is now winning.
mrmoshpotato
Y-U-M-M-O!
Roger Moore
@dmsilev:
I can totally see why people hate peacocks; they are really terrible neighbors. The parrots can be annoying at times, but at least they tend to move around so they aren’t visiting their noise and destruction in the same area all the time.
HumboldtBlue
Perfesser Levenson has questions.
WaterGirl
@Roger Moore: My peacock feathers are beautiful, and very quiet.
mrmoshpotato
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Mmmmmm
dmsilev
@Frank Wilhoit: Red-crowned parrots are the most common, but I think there are a few species represented. Origins are unclear (there are several competing stories), but there are a few thousand of the birds in the local population, and they can be quite loud particularly early in the morning and in the late afternoon as they either leave or return to their roosting spots.
bluefoot
I love dutch babies! I only get them about once a year since the are on the menu at a breakfast place in another state. Do you have a recipe you can share?
About Manchin, I get sick to my stomach every time I think about what’s going on re voting rights. I need to find more ways to get involved before we lose what democracy we have.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@mrmoshpotato: I’m eating carrot sticks and thinking about death
dmsilev
@WaterGirl: I saw a white peacock once a few months ago. Very distinctive.
Apparently due to a rare mutation that prevents pigment from entering into the feathers.
debbie
@HumboldtBlue:
When I hear it, I like it in spite of myself. The music and harmonies, not the lyrics.
dnfree
@WaterGirl: yours is vegetarian!
Roger Moore
@Frank Wilhoit:
The main species of parrot around here are red crowned Amazons (Amazona viridigenalis). We also get some mitered parakeets (Psittacara mitratus) and ring necked parakeets (Psittacula krameri), but the Amazons are the most attention getting.
Gary K
So that’s how you make a baby! Good to know.
NotMax
Have been running through episodes of Four Star Playhouse.
For a half hour anthology TV series fast approaching being 70 years old, pleasantly surprised by how well many of the done-in-one stories have held up.
WaterGirl
@bluefoot: It’s amazingly simple. It’s from my friend’s mom.
Another Scott
@dmsilev: My workplace has been replacing ancient sodium-vapor lights in the parking lots with newfangled LEDs. Last night at around 2330 I was leaving and there was a mocking bird screeching up a storm in a Bradford pear (or similar) tree just outside the door.
I don’t know whether it’s just crazy, or being fooled by the very bright white LEDs, or what. But I do wonder how long he’ll keep it up, and if it’s actually effective in his purpose…
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@dmsilev: That would be odd. Was it beautiful?
rikyrah
@bluehill:
I KNOW, RIGHT??
Gorgeous :)
WaterGirl
@Gary K: hahahahaha
I have a slight inkling that people who are not Dutch may do it differently.
Mary G
@dmsilev: LOL, I put that article up on the last thread, and the LA County supervisor said that even without the peacocks, there will still be your parrots:
We had a flock of green parrots down here in the OC that could make an astonishing amount of noise if they showed up in the yard. They have disappeared, probably by someone taking matters into their own hands.
rikyrah
@Ken:
I honestly didn’t know that people threw out bacon fat. That’s a real thing? Folks don’t keep bacon drippings?
Montanareddog
@NotMax: on the subject of roasted bàtter comfort foods, no one has mentioned Toad in the hole yet.
Paging Silverman and Leto for their takes, as they have spent extended periods in the British Isles
sab
@WaterGirl: Yikes! Popover on steroids. Who makes those in summer heatwaves?
gvg
i only have blackberries right now, and a few green beans plus one almost ripe yellow bell pepper. I grew strawberries once for my sister. Turns out golden retrievers love them too. We had to transplant.
NotMax
@Mary G
Or maybe the green parrots simply ripened.
:)
zhena gogolia
Whoa, those strawberries are beautiful!
HumboldtBlue
@debbie: I’m with you, I love the song.
Omnes Omnibus
@HumboldtBlue: You are, of course, incorrect.
HumboldtBlue
@Omnes Omnibus: Ahem
I hear the drums echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
She’s coming in, 12:30 flight
The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation
I stopped an old man along the way
Hoping to find some old forgotten words or ancient melodies
He turned to me as if to say, “Hurry boy, it’s waiting there for you”
It’s gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had (ooh, ooh)
The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless, longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what’s right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
I seek to cure what’s deep inside, frightened of this thing that I’ve become
It’s gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had (ooh, ooh)
Hurry boy, she’s waiting there for you
It’s gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa
(I bless the rain)
I bless the rains down in Africa (I bless the rain)
I bless the rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa (ah, gonna take the time)
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had (ooh, ooh)
Roger Moore
@Another Scott:
Mockingbirds are well known for calling at night, so it’s likely nothing to do with the change in lighting.
Spanky
@Another Scott: Just crazy.
Here in the DC area I’ve witnessed all-night mockingbird singing around all sorts of lights: incandescent, high- and low-vapor sodium, mercury, over 4 decades of evolving public lighting.
Mockers don’t give a shit.
Montanareddog
@dmsilev: round here, feral ring-necked parakeets are a pest, especially at our house since we have apple trees, a pear tree and a cherry tree in the garden. They start eating the fruits before they are ripe and cause them to fall. But they do not eat on the ground. So you end up with lots of unripe apples and pears littering the floor with just a few nibbles taken out. The trees end up stripped if you do not put nets over them.
And, yes, they are also very noisy.
dmsilev
@WaterGirl: Quite pretty, and he was admiring his reflection when I saw him (the side of someone’s car). I think I have a photo somewhere if you’d like.
Omnes Omnibus
@HumboldtBlue: You bastard.
Subsole
@germy: Y’know, if it is just a case of venality, that’s fine. I will take a buyable blue dog over a Republican any day.
Meantime, we keep working to expand our majority.
Buyable is unfortunate, but workable. Irrelevant is better.
Maybe I just feel optimistic because we seem to be turfing the gopes out like crazy around here.
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I just discovered German pancakes right before I went on a diet. Don’t speak to me of pain.
dmsilev
@Montanareddog: When I lived in Chicago, there was a colony of monk parakeets in the neighborhood. It was alway good for a laugh to tell people to watch out for the nests of the “feral monks”.
HumboldtBlue
Fozzy bear has an existential crisis.
kindness
That Dutch Baby looks like a giant open Pop-over. The ingredients are similar. I add a little vanilla to mine. Also with Pop-overs, you add a small amount of butter to the bottom of each popover pan, throw that in a hot oven till it is bubbling, then add the ingredients. They are cooked like a souffle, you bake it at 425 for 15 minutes then dial it back to 350 for another 20.
HumboldtBlue
@Omnes Omnibus:
I do my best.
WaterGirl
@sab: The oven is only on for 20 minutes.
WaterGirl
@dmsilev: Absolutely!
Omnes Omnibus
@HumboldtBlue: No need to work so hard. Take it easy; put your feet up.
WaterGirl
@Subsole: Maybe we need to up our bribery game for Machin.
Omnes Omnibus
@sab: Besides WaterGirl?
Montanareddog
@Omnes Omnibus: You are correct, sir, and HB is most definitely in the wrong (on this subject, at least)
HumboldtBlue
@Montanareddog:
This why people don’t invite you to parties.
dmsilev
@WaterGirl: OK, email sent.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: I am sure he has a price. I am not sure it is monetary. We just need to find it.
Honestly, this is probably right up Biden’s alley. “Come on, Joe. How are gonna get this done?”
TomatoQueen
@rikyrah: Some people don’t even eat bacon any more, but what is the point of living after that?
My late mother kept bacon grease for Daddy’s hash browns. I remember seeing my last Siamese cat (1979) nicking McDonald’s French fries and being rather determined about it. I discovered later that it wasn’t the fries, but the beef tallow they were cooked in then. I’m still not going to keep both bacon grease and beef tallow, one or the other.
Of Merlin there is not a sausage or a sign. This is the worst misery I have experienced since my Young Man was diagnosed 34 years ago, and I’ve had the same headache daily for the past month.
Spanky
@Omnes Omnibus: Doo doo doo-dooo, dah doo doo dooooooo
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@HumboldtBlue: a three minute aural wayback machine to when the world and I were both younger and cooler
at least the planet was cooler
Omnes Omnibus
@HumboldtBlue: Well, there is also the other thing.
Montanareddog
@HumboldtBlue: people don’t invite me to parties because I am a pretentious bore. But OO is still right about Toto.
Roger Moore
@Mary G:
Or maybe they just found a better place to forage. The parrots around here have a tendency to roost in big flocks at night and then break up into smaller flocks to forage during the day. They do sometimes change their favored roosting location, and they obviously change where they forage depending on what’s in season.
I think one of the advantages of roosting in big flocks is that the ones who have found a rich source of food can recruit others to go out with them the next day. A single parrot, or even a whole family group, can’t finish a whole tree full of fruit or nuts before they spoil, so they might as well bring along a larger flock. When they’re in a flock, they can take turns looking for predators and intimidating other animals that might compete with them for the food.
HumboldtBlue
@Spanky:
Humming right along with the upper harmony.
@Omnes Omnibus:
We don’t talk about that.
@Montanareddog:
Yeah, like bad takes on good music!
schrodingers_cat
Kitteh Update: Boss cat been catheterized. They did an x-ray and there is a tumor which may be cancerous. Getting a second opinion tomorrow. But it doesn’t look good. Vet is going to come home
Husband kitteh has gone to pick him up at the vets.
Barbara
@WaterGirl: It’s like a giant popover — the proportions of ingredients are similar. I refer to popovers as pancake muffins, and my kids just love them. I don’t add sugar, however.
Barbara
@schrodingers_cat: Best of luck to you and your kitteh.
germy
@schrodingers_cat:
Good idea getting the second opinion.
I’m hoping Boss Cat gets the best treatment and returns to full management duties.
debbie
@HumboldtBlue:
What did you think of Weezer’s cover?
debbie
@schrodingers_cat:
Sorry to read this. Fingers crossed for a positive second opinion!
Montanareddog
@HumboldtBlue: I once pontificated at lunch in the work canteen that Bat Out of Hell is a classic album for people who have no clue about music. From the constipated look on my boss’s face, I surmised that I had just screwed my career at that particular company.
HumboldtBlue
@debbie:
I like the original better.
laura
@schrodingers_cat: I’m sending every spare good thoughts and well wishes your way.
Kropacetic
In my house we sometimes throw bacon fat out because we produce it faster than we can use it.
MomSense
@Omnes Omnibus:
I used to love love love beef Wellington when I was a kid. I would devour a plate now I think, even though I don’t eat meat anymore.
Omnes Omnibus
@Montanareddog: You weren’t wrong.
cwmoss
@Omnes Omnibus: “Ugly, fat, Belgian bastards!”
(Monty Python joke)
sab
We keep the butter dish 9n the kitchen counter. It is a heavy glass dish with a heavy glass lid. Butter does not actually need to be kept regrigerated. Ours lasts for weeks on the counter, and it is always soft enough to spread. Very convenient set up.
Our heavy cat, after 10+ years here with us, has finally noticed the arrangement. He slides the butter dish all over the counter to get the lid off. That usually happens when he and the butter dish get to the stove top. Then he smears the butter on the stove and licks it off.
This arrangement has to end. So back to cold stiff butter. Thanks cat.
MomSense
@schrodingers_cat:
Hoping for the best and sending healing thoughts to boss kitty.
Omnes Omnibus
@cwmoss: I can’t think of anything worse than Belgian.
Wonderful game show.
tokyokie
@Roger Moore:
Near here, we have a colony of monk parakeets (Myiopsitta monachus), and it’s cool so see a flash of bright green streaking by. But the utility company hates them because they tend to built their gigantic, multigenerational nest between electrical transformers and the utility pole to which they’re attached.
Steve in the ATL
@sab: leave some other butter uncovered for the cat. That’s what we’ve always done.
Comrade Colette
@Gary K:
Dammit, we could have saved thousands on adoption fees if we’d had that recipe.
Kelly
When I was a child bacon fat was a key ingredient of cornbread.
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
(Joke works much, much better when spoken aloud.)
Q: What’s the difference between a French kiss and a Belgian kiss?
A: A Belgian kiss is more Flemish.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: Ew.
Roger Moore
@Gary K:
How is Dutch babby formed?
zhena gogolia
@schrodingers_cat:
Oh, I’m sorry. It is so hard.
Lyrebird
@Roger Moore:
@dmsilev:
and the difference between “loud bird call” and “loud sounds of small person being tortured” really dont have the same effect. I had the exact same reaction as the gal quoted when I first heard a peacock, asked my grandparents how we call the police.
cope
@sab: Get a butter bell. It’s like a cup into which the soft butter is spread and then kept upside down in another, larger diameter container in which a small amount of water sits at the bottom. The water keeps air away from the butter and the whole thing might be too complex for kitty to hack. Or not.
breadbeckers.com/store/pc/Butter-Bell-Crock-Azure-Antique-p3142.htm
schrodingers_cat
Boss cat is back. He seems alert. What can I give him to eat. Second vet comes home tomorrow.
J R in WV
@schrodingers_cat:
So sorry to hear about sick kitty. Always stressful, even when they’re really elderly. Take care!
Frank Wilhoit
@dmsilev: Pics? Stories in local media? Reason I ask is, I edit the newsletter of the local bird-fanciers club and this kind of thing is…well, in another context, one might say “catnip”. Are these “red-crowned parrots” green-cheeked amazons or Wagler’s conures? Anything you can point me to will be useful.
Thanks, FW
.
NotMax
@sab
Locking butter dish.
Sacrifice a smidgen of esthetics for a dollop of security.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@schrodingers_cat:
Ouch. Best wishes to your kitty!! I agree that it’s a good idea to get a second opinion.
zhena gogolia
@schrodingers_cat:
Does he like tuna?
Roger Moore
@Frank Wilhoit:
Red-crowned/green-cheeked amazons (Amazona viridigenalis). In fact, the picture for the red-crowned amazon on Wikipedia is one I took near my old apartment in Pasadena.
schrodingers_cat
@zhena gogolia: Shrimp but he is not eating it.
Another Scott
@Roger Moore: “… I happen to have
Mr. McLuhanMr. Moore right here…”:-)
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Maybe his daughter?
Another Scott
@schrodingers_cat: A little bit of cheese or milk/cream/ice cream? Just to get his appetite going?
Good luck!
Cheers,
Scott.
Mary G
@schrodingers_cat: Mine loved pureed ham baby food and at the end it was the only thing she would eat. It smells horrible which may be why she would eat it.
Catherine D.
@schrodingers_cat: Meat baby food (Gerbers, etc) You always know who’s got a sick cat when you see someone buying baby food late at night.
ETA – Jinx, Mary G
WaterGirl
@schrodingers_cat: It sounds like you’re doing just what you need to in order to be able to make the best decision.
I had a similar situation with my dog Bailey, and it didn’t go our way, but that last night together was everything.
Hoping your kitty has an extra life in him, and that you have a happier ending. Either way, you have tonight.
WaterGirl
@Barbara: There’s not enough sugar that it tastes sweet, it tastes more egg-y to me.
But if they are that simple, maybe I’ll try popovers!
sab
@NotMax: Thanks.
Catherine D.
@WaterGirl: I love making clafoutis, which is eggy batter poured on top of whatever fruit. Easier than pie and delish.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl: I don’t care when you eat Dutch Babies*, it’s just wrong.
*Though I hear they’re very tender and juicey.
WaterGirl
@Catherine D.: I love those! We had a small bakery that would make them, and then they closed.
If you have a tried and true recipe for clafoutis, I would love to have it!!!
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: It’s just like white castle hamburgers. If you first eat them when you’re young, the details don’t matter as much. :-)
NotMax
@sab
I have one I keep in the fridge. As it is airtight it keeps infiltration by stray refrigerator aromas at bay. Continues to hold up just as well as when new after years of use.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@schrodingers_cat: Alert’s good, hoping for the best.
Roger Moore
@Another Scott:
I think this says more about how Wikipedia works than anything about my skill as a photographer. There weren’t enough good pictures of the bird, I had some to share, so I uploaded one. As soon as there was a reasonably decent one, nobody else bothered.
Another Scott
@Roger Moore: It’s a great shot. Be proud, and be happy to be proud. :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Mary G
@Catherine D.: LOL, I know. She would eat chicken, turkey, or beef, but ham was her crack. The late night trips looking for it were so stressful. They never had more than a couple of jars, if any, so every time I got groceries I would check for it and buy it for my stash.
I used the leftover jars to try to get my new semi-feral two to come out of hiding, They were very displeased when it ran out.
Catherine D.
@Mary G: I just ordered three flats of beef, chicken, and turkey jars to avoid the late night trips. Mr Jeeves is 16.5 yo and has IBD so bland food is handy to keep around.
normal liberal
WaterGirl, that is a classic Dutch Baby, but even it pales in comparison to those beautiful strawberries. They look on beyond luscious. So much envy here.
WaterGirl
@normal liberal: Please don’t hate me if I say that the strawberries tasted as good as they looked. I hope for another batch in a few days
No name
@TomatoQueen: Have missed some posts and was hoping for good news about Merlin. It is the worst helpless feeling. Will hold good thoughts for you and him.
No name
@schrodingers_cat: Alert is good, second opinion is very good. Agree with other commenters to try baby food.
SWMBO
@Mary G:
There was a flock of green parrots down the street from us. It was estimated around 50 or so making a huge series of townhouse nests in the palm trees at the park. They were loud and obnoxious and all over our part of the neighborhood until my pack of dachshunds came tearing out the door and managed to catch one. They all had green feathers everywhere. Then the birds didn’t come in our yard anymore.