Mishmash, hodgepodge (no lodge)

[magid]

Tuesdays are the end of the vegetable week, so I used up lots of things still hanging around as dinner last night. To wit: a leek, several cloves of crushed garlic, a bag of older spinach, a small box of mushrooms, a mushed-up already-cooked sweet potato, some winter squash with caramelized leeks, roasted zucchinis and Italian peppers with onion, the end of some eggplant-garlic spread, plain caramelized leeks, a can of black beans, some hot sauce, feta, slices of a hard Italian cheese, plus the last of the egg backlog I'd built up (more than one of which had a blood spot, unfortunately). It wasn't attractive, but it tasted pretty good. And there's a bit more room in my fridge for whatever is delivered today. I should've increased the box size, since there's no farm share. D'oh.

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What would undead cows eat?

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Bubblebabble continues in his computer wizardly ways. Thanks again for fixing things.

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I asked for a bag of frozen boneless chicken thighs at the Butcherie this morning.
+ They exist, and are in a very compact bag (read: take up less space in the freezer).
- $5/lb (they're only in 5-lb bags), and I'll have to use them mostly at the same time, since I can't defrost half a lump. (Heffalump?)

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Backing up moms everywhere, veggies are good for your brain.

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The chagim are crazy-busy, by definition. I always think things will calm down afterward, but it never works that way. I need a temporary clone machine to go to everything. What was that spell Ruzagride had, again?

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I've been warped by role-playing, thinking about failed saving throws out of context, wondering about Krayzen slash, considering which songs would fit with which schools of magic (Light My Fire obviously being Burdez, I Want You to Want Me for Visik, and so on).

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Before it rains again:

Dear Umbrella Wielder,
Please remember that your width is increased when you carry an open umbrella, and plan accordingly.
Thank you.

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From the Shrub administration: it's just fine to have public schools or classes that are single sex.

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It would be great if I could get local (organic) meat that's kosher. I know of a farm or two that raises animals; I'd need to find a shochet who would be willing to do small jobs, plus some other people willing to split an animal with me. (Plus I'd have to get a chest freezer of some sort.) I'd hope that with a small job like this, he (I suspect the vast majority of shochtim these days are "he"s*) would be able to get the sciatic nerve out, so cuts that are usually not available would be part of the package.

* I hate the apostrophe-for-plurals trend, and "hes" just looks wrong. Italics or bold aren't right either.

Comments

organic kosher

[trainingmom.livejournal.com]

you should be able to get organic kosher meat. We get it here, at least chickens. :-)

Re: organic kosher

[magid.livejournal.com]

I can get frozen organic chicken. I'm trying for local, too, though, and that's what makes it difficult. Nonkosher locavores have a bunch of options. Not that I'm going for all local all the time, but it would be great to have more than just produce locally.

[coorr.livejournal.com]

were the songs we were coming up with only about love and or sex? I cant remember.

If not, Changes by David Bowie would make for a pretty good Shorevic song.

After that Cheep Trick reference Im not sure I will ever be able to take visik foci seriously again.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I thought we'd only mentioned the two I listed, but I might've missed one.

Definitely with the Bowie.

You have to take Visik seriously, or you go to the mountain and stay there.

[geekosaur]

I'm increasingly using e.g. "he"-s when the plural shouldn't quite blend in.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I don't much care for the hyphen in "he"-s.

I suppose the best option is to rewrite until I can avoid the construction. I was too lazy for that.

[(Anonymous)]

Is it bad, what the Bush administration is allowing? This is already being done in some districts. Of course, any well-intentioned situation can be abused, but I don't get from the article that evidence that this is bad across-the-board. Wouldn't many of those women's rights groups be the ones concerened over women's colleges going co-ed?

You'd probably have to make arrangements with the farm -- or with non-Jewish buyers -- for animals that your hired shochet might slaughter that would end up not being kosher. Also, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a shochet with the extra-specialized shechita skills for the hindquarters; making tsedakah of that portion would be nice.

Have you discovered space for a chest freezer? You could do this in the spring with a small animal -- a lamb -- and instead of attempting to freeze the meat, immediately host a nice big barbecue; that seems appropriate.

Suspecting that the vast majority of shochtim these days are male works easily, without sentence recasting, for future such situations.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I don't have a problem with single-sex education per se, but I don't know that public school is the place for it. Ideally, of course, "separate but equal" classes or schools can be set up, but in the imperfect world we have, it doesn't often work out that way. It doesn't help that I don't trust this administration at all, on pretty much any topic, but particularly education: the TX education miracle was one of the things he touted, that turned out to be not so true in the end (and I've seen the TX math standards, anyway. Not impressive.). It doesn't help that I have to wonder whether this is part of some fundamentalist xtian agenda, too.
I have no problem with private schools being separate, btw, which is what the women's colleges are.

I hadn't thought about the possibility of the animal being a treifah; I should have. I suspect it wouldn't be too difficult to find friends who'd be willing to be contingency meat buyers. And yeah, probably no one these days deals with porging the vein, but as long as I'm dreaming... (and if not, I'd probably tap whatever friends who might've taken the treifah meat). I also realized that I've never kashered meat; I'd hope he'd be able to either do it or talk me through it. Hrm. Though where I'd do it would be an interesting question...

I haven't figured out a chest freezer; I was thinking if I found a shochet that would give me impetus to work on that :-). And a BBQ lamb! The anti-seder meal! (Perfect for the korban though, except the breaking bones part.)

True about the wording; I was obviously tired. Plus I wanted the flow of "he" "he", but you're right, it doesn't work typed, however well it does in my mental ear.

[(Anonymous)]

Good reasons to worry. Still, doesn't seem like anything is overtly wrong with this legislation, as opposed to much other legislation. Some women's colleges are publicly funded, I believe.

Dreaming is good. I often dream of (escape to) impossible could-have-been life scenarios, but then place limits on the resulting scenarios based on unrelated facts of reality, and then have to remind myself that since I am imagining that, say, I had made different decision X, I can also imagine that other factor Y never became part of my life.

Another issue would be whether the shochet were also a butcher, meaning, is he not only qualified to shecht and inspect the animal and remove the internal organs and such, but also does he posses the skills and tools to quarter the meat and then butcher the frontquarters down into the portions, the cuts of meat.

The frontquartes can be kashered, probably outside, before butchering, or the meat could be butchered into portions, and then you would kasher each portion of the meat each time in your kitchen, as if you had just bought the portion home from the butcher shop. Brings to mind All of a Kind Family.

The lamb barbecue could be done during the week leading up to Pesach; this would be appropriately bittersweet. It also could be a Lag B'Omer event.

The flow is indeed important. It is a shame it didn't translate into written form.

[magid.livejournal.com]

It's true, the legislation isn't necessarily a problem; I'm just a worry-wart, and extremely leery of anything the administration does these days.

I wonder about the might-have-beens sometimes, but it's not always a good brain space for me to enter. Forward-looking things are safer in that regard.

I was thinking that if the shochet couldn't butcher, the farms that do this kind of thing must have a relationship with a butcher, who could probably be convinced to use someone else's knives for the duration.

It would be a whole lot easier if I could kasher it before it gets to my house; I don't know where I'd put the 'traif/liver' implements, among other technical issues. (I adored the All of a Kind Family books.)

Mmmm... barbecue. I remember having my first barbecued ribs in college, and they were wonderful (my family isn't so much with making barbecue). I keep hearing people rave about Redbones (in Davis Sq.), and wishing I could rent some of their barbecue expertise for a bit, to try to replicate a bit of it in my kitchen, inadequate though the facilities are compared to a professional situation.
I suspect more people would be willing to take the time around Lag B'Omer than the week before Pesach.

[(Anonymous)]

At times I am genuinely surprised that I remain in this reality, that my life hasn't been altered to reflect what I imagine when I escape to the could-have-been scenarios.