Love, lust, and leeks: Siobhan Ball offers us the legends and folklore surrounding the leek, a vegetable that ancient pagan cultures sometimes saw as revolting and sometimes as a symbol of desire, alongside a delicious leek stew that’s perfect for celebrating the Spring equinox.
OK you guys need to try making trad Irish stew, only instead of the usual seasonings (sage, salt, pepper, Guinness, whatev), you skip all that and just drop in a brick of Vermont Curry from Japan.
Fucking oishii, mates.
This was my late #dinner last night. Some #homemade#beef#stew. Beef is from my friend's small farm just outside of Nanaimo. Vegetables are from my backyard food garden.
I pulled a test bowl of the first run of #perpetualstew.
It is... delicious.
It has an interesting depth to it-- I'm assuming because most of the base was peppers and mushrooms. There's jalapeños in there that you wouldn't necessarily realize were there... until their heat hits the back of your tongue.
But it isn't a bad heat-- just one that adds another layer of complexity to the broth itself.
And not to mention... the broth is so CLEAR. the only real word I can use to describe it is clear.
Also its finally time for me to go to seep... at 720am.
This stew is for my whole-food plant-based diet, so it works also for vegans, vegetarians, and omnivores.
No cruciferous vegetable. If I had horseradish on hand, I would try adding 1/4 cup or so of that since horseradish is cruciferous. (Horseradish from the refrigerated section, of course.) Next time, I'll just include kale or perhaps cauliflower.
Now that I'm back home I can cook up a big pot of veggie stew. I like this one. As always, my recipe is just a description of what I did with the veggies that caught my eye at the store.
Made another #stew, similar to the one described the other day. It tastes nice; though the tomatoes are different, making the stew more watery. And yesterday I used up the remaining bacon for spaghetti alla Carbonara, with bacon playing the role of guanciale.
Trying out the Mastodon web interface. Ran into an Emacs 27.1 memory leak yesterday, with it consuming 24 GB of memory, which is triggered by image rendering, loading, or resizing (happens with both mastodon.el and eww), so the web interface may work better for now. Maybe I will try some GUI clients, too. Or to install Emacs 28 from backports.
In other news, I saw the new Unseen University octangle in #DiscworldMUD yesterday! It has order-themed benches, statues, trees, new NPCs.
I suspect that different topics are supposed to be split into multiple toots, but I imagine it would feel more spammy. But perhaps also more organized, and more relevant when it shows up in hashtag searches. I should try such splitting in the future.