food and things
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liminal_spacelast night i made the garlic tomato pasta dish i linked a bit back and, well...
yes.
yes, please and thank you.
it's such a simple dish, but the flavor was soooo good! i made some shrimp with it (i actually turned the oven on for them, the little bastards) and that just made me think we needed to be eating that at a beach front spanish villa. of course, i could be eating chicken nuggets from mcdonald's and think we should eat that at a beach front villa somewhere.
today i dug out the saffron and then checked how much it costs since we will need some soon....and died. for best quality saffron? it's up to $5000 a pound. whaaaat? how do i grow and sell this??? (i just looked up how much a pound of good quality cocaine costs....it's more, but i bet there's far less risk with saffron....and i wonder if i just flagged myself on some internet spying on people watchlist) i know the process of harvesting is difficult and the window for doing it is short, but still. anyway, the rice calls for 1/4 tsp saffron, and if the rice is really good, we'll order some more to have on hand. but not a pound of it, k? k.
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in other news, it's hot. i imagine the majority of you are feeling the heat, too. if you're not? sooooo happy for you, but send some cool my way. =D
i need to prep an area to stain wood, so i think that's what i'll do now.
and remember....
yes.
yes, please and thank you.
it's such a simple dish, but the flavor was soooo good! i made some shrimp with it (i actually turned the oven on for them, the little bastards) and that just made me think we needed to be eating that at a beach front spanish villa. of course, i could be eating chicken nuggets from mcdonald's and think we should eat that at a beach front villa somewhere.
today i dug out the saffron and then checked how much it costs since we will need some soon....and died. for best quality saffron? it's up to $5000 a pound. whaaaat? how do i grow and sell this??? (i just looked up how much a pound of good quality cocaine costs....it's more, but i bet there's far less risk with saffron....and i wonder if i just flagged myself on some internet spying on people watchlist) i know the process of harvesting is difficult and the window for doing it is short, but still. anyway, the rice calls for 1/4 tsp saffron, and if the rice is really good, we'll order some more to have on hand. but not a pound of it, k? k.
*
in other news, it's hot. i imagine the majority of you are feeling the heat, too. if you're not? sooooo happy for you, but send some cool my way. =D
i need to prep an area to stain wood, so i think that's what i'll do now.
and remember....
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Date: 2022-07-21 08:54 pm (UTC)love it and want to use it on everything like garlic? Seems safer to just never try it ð
Please tell us how it goes though! The forbidden rice ðĪŠ
It is definitely hot. We've had nothing but triple digits for about a week
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Date: 2022-07-21 09:05 pm (UTC)We're in the high 80s/low 90s for the next few weeks. It doesn't SOUND that hot, really, but the sun at these altitudes is so much more intense than when we lived at the bottom of the mountains. =\ I'm hoping things start really cooling down soon, but I remember last year we didn't hit "good" temperatures until late September. =(
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Date: 2022-07-22 04:35 am (UTC)I hope your prep and staining went well!
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Date: 2022-07-22 05:41 am (UTC)