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[magid]

The new T maps that include the Silver Line (not a subway line, a bus line with special status) is cool. I hadn't realized that the Silver Line is in two pieces. And there's been a lot more signage up around the stations in general. I approve.

If berries are a plant's way of getting seeds around, why are some berries poisonous?

Food made today (for Shabbat and/or Sukkot): banana-applesauce cake (without eggs; I'd forgotten I don't have any. I hope it's ok.); roasted cauliflower; Brussels sprouts; roasted beets and sweet potatoes; lacinato kale and oyster mushrooms with ground buffalo (*insert bad pun about air buffalo and wings here*).

It might not rain on Sunday! I may be able to put the sukkah up without getting soaked!

An annotated list of food additive allowed in USDA certified organic foods.

Comments

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

not all berries want to be eaten, they'd rather sprout via wind or water carry than be chewed up and subject to digestive stuff.

[geekosaur]

Also, not all berries that are poisonous to us are poisonous to various other animals (in particular, birds).

[dancingdeer.livejournal.com]

I'll be curious to know how the bread works out without eggs - I assume you used applesauce as a substitute.
I haven't tried no-egg quickbreads, and if it does work, I'll do breads for the downstairs residents of my house again (little kiddo allergic to egg).

[fetteredwolf.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I use an egg replacement made of potato starch, I think? When cooking for my vegan friends.

But mostly, I wanted to ask, why do you have a picture of my cat in your user icon???

(Do we have twins?)

[dancingdeer.livejournal.com]

Heh. I think they're fairly common cat colors. My kitty, however, died about 3ish years ago at just about 20 years old, so I suspect no twins were separated at birth here. The above picture was taken when he was about 18.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the additives list! Very good information.

[fetteredwolf.livejournal.com]

It's not only the colors, it's also the expression and the way he's holding himself. I think his back leg is white a bit further up than our cat, who is a 9 year old female. I hope we have her for 20 years.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I guess I just assumed that berries aren't useful to the seeds if not for being eaten. Point.

[magid.livejournal.com]

True enough. Good point.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I've frozen it for Sukkot; I'll try to remember to let you know after the first days are over. Since the cake already had applesauce in it, I added a bit more than usual, and one of the suggestions online for egg substitute in cake was... a banana, so I figured I had it covered either way. I hope, anyway. (Some of the others were starches of different sorts, but since the recipe doesn't have any liquid other than mashed banana, applesauce, and eggs, I didn't want to add more dry stuff.)

If you want vegan chocolate cake, there's one bookmarked in my food writing entries...

[magid.livejournal.com]

(Oops; you were the person mentioning starch, and I put my reply to Dancingdeer...)

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thought you'd like it.

She had been doing it in pieces, then put the last piece together with the rest. I was pretty amused when the second-to-last piece mentioned Serenity, which I definitely would not have expected!