Veggies, week 15

[magid]

This week's share includes:

an acorn squash
an eggplant
a sunflower (anyone know an easy way to get the seeds out?)
a big bunch of (green) swiss chard
3 heads of different kinds of lettuce
3 lb red tomatoes
1.5 lb carrots
a kohlrabi (a smallish purple one)
3 bell peppers
2 "sweet ethnic" peppers

Comments

Removing sunflower seeds

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Buy a small flock of finches. Put head of sunflower in cage with finches. Problem solved.

Alternatively, you could set the sunflower on your balcony and wait for the birds to find it, which prevents the problem in the first solution of what to do with the finches once they have extracted the seeds.

Parrots would work, too. Or jays.

Re: Removing sunflower seeds

[magid.livejournal.com]

There was an insert about the sunflower (also the kohlrabi, just to be technical), and it was pointed out that one can have sunflower seeds raw or toasted, or one could put them out for the birds... um, squirrels.

What's the smallest number of birds I would need to have a flock?

[Thinking of collective nouns (which really sound like they should be wearing macrame and peace symbols), I think Sunday it was determined that a group of Jews is a "kvetch."]

I was hoping to have a non-avian way of extracting the seeds, to be honest ;-). Not that I'm overly fond of them myself, but I can picture putting them out in a bowl as munchies so very clearly.
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Flocks and things

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Two is probably not enough. Five, perhaps? A small flock. *shrug*

Well, as an alternative to putting the seeds out in a bowl for nibbling on, you could just set the flower head on a nice platter and present it that way.

Seems to me that I recall taking the flower heads and breaking chunks off; then you can kind of rub/push the individual seeds out through the broken edge. You get a certain amount of non-seed material in the mix this way, but I _think_ you can just blow on the mix to get rid of the lighter, non-seed bits.

Flower head on a platter

[magid.livejournal.com]

(sounds like a strange Guillotine card...)

It's not quite so aesthetic that I'd like to do that....

Thanks for the other suggestions, though.

Re: Removing sunflower seeds

[queue.livejournal.com]

You could put them in bread.

Re: Removing sunflower seeds

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Er, I should clarify that the manual (as opposed to the avian) extraction method does not actually get the seeds from their shells. I don't know of a non-labor-intensive way to accomplish that _and_ keep them (avian extration is great for shelling if you don't want the tasty bits yourself).

Re: Removing sunflower seeds

[magid.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the only way I've seen them is in the shell for eating out-of-hand (lots of Israelis seem addicted to them) or already shelled.

Hm. I wonder if anyone would want to [could be coerced to?] shell them, perhaps while talking to me as I cook? (especially if someone would like them to be put into bread....)

(Could do a whole seed extravaganza bread, with sunflower seeds, and sesame seeds, and flaxseeds, and, um, other seeds.)
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Re: Removing sunflower seeds

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Here's something I don't like about LJ. We are in your journal. Hrafn makes a comment on one of my comments, and I get an email notification. Good. However, you make a comment on that comment, with some of it directed at me, and I don't get an email notification. I really think that one should get an email notification for anything downline of theirs. Of course, since I had already commented on it, I was watching that post, but, if I hadn't been, I would have never known, and you might have assumed I'd seen it, or something. Then end.

Re: Removing sunflower seeds

[magid.livejournal.com]

I wonder if they can add that functionality as an option, since the writer of the commented-upon comment gets notified and the writer of the journal gets notified, no matter how long along the line it goes. Or perhaps have the new comment writer have the option of notifying x layers up the line...

(I suppose I should address something to Hrafn here...)
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