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Thursday 7:05 p.m.
I think if I'm going to get any good as this juju, I'm going to have to live at least as long as Li Ching-yuen, so I went down to Waitrose looking for goji berries. I got a packet of mixed stuff. I was hoping to be able to germinate some of the berries, but the Domestic Bliss says they've been processed. Apparently, the bushes grow anywhere and you can buy them on the web, but I've never bought anything on the web, so it's back to the drawing board.
I bought soup stuff as well. In that pot are lentils, potatoes, cabbage, mustard greens, onion, carrot, broccoli ... kidney beans and chick peas ... salt, pepper, garlic, tumeric, coriander, curry powder, cumin ... and pasta sauce.
I had a photie extra so I took one of my guitar. I bought it from the pawn shop twenty years ago and it's been battered to death. I really need a new one. It's a copy of a hummingbird.
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Interesting plants. I prob can't eat them, but I'm always game to try growing a new food. I'll go looking for seeds. I like ordering over the internet, mostly because I hate shopping in most any other form.
Marie! The bit I read about them said they grow in Britain already and can survive temperatures from minus fifteen to plus forty. Hardy buggers.Strange that I'd never even heard of them. Everybody else has. Hotboy
your soup looks tasty. goji berries are members of the family Solanaceae- that is the tomato family.
Dashy! Don't you fancy growing a bush then? Around here everybody but me had heard of them, but nobody likes the taste except me. They can only take up to 40 degrees so maybe Arizona would be too hot for them.
Dashy! Nobody likes my soup except for me. It's an acquired taste, like Guinness. For years I made soup with ham ribs and after I became a vegetarian, it took me three years to start making soup again. I tried to forget the taste, but I've still not really forgotten the taste of the ham rib soup I used to make. Now that I'm trying to give up dairy due to the leprosy, I don't have the most wonderful taste of home made bread toasted with banana. I put something called Pure on the bread now and it is made from some petrol based soya gunk and the most wonderful taste has now departed. The taste was from the butter. I thought it was something projected, but alas it needed the butter. I might have to start eating porridge in the morning now, but how can I when the porridge needs milk, back to the dairy. I had lunch at the good mother's of bought bread, olive oil based gunk, and tomatoes. Actually, the tomatoes were all that was discernibly good about this wasteland of taste. What would it have been like if I had plucked the tomatoes off a plant? I could have thrown away the bought bread and the factory produced olive oil (?) rubbish ... the French understand this. Maybe you just have wonderful bread and olive oil and tomatoes ... the nephew's French wife says when you go to the market don't pick the perfect tomatoes, pick the ones grown by the home growers, a bit distorted but tasty. Without the dairy, I'll need to find a new way to eat! Have you any suggestions. I know you don't cook. What do you eat if you don't cook. It can't all be tomatoes.Hotboy
I'm sure the soup tastes a lot better than it looks.
Dashy. Thanks for the sotto voce warning about the pesky solacea family. You say tomato, George Oszawa says potato. Let's call gojis off the shopping list again.
If Pure is margarine, at least it's vegetarian, if you can call E numbers a vegetable. Doc Bob advised me to compromise, and persist with butter but just use less. Life's too short, besides the drugs will kill you long before the dairy.
Here we use soy milk on our porridge. You hardly notice the difference If you smother it in salt.
PS. The cellmate must already have known about the distorted ones being better than the perfect ones, when she picked me.
PPS I understand banana's a vegetable.
Hotboy, i apologize for the tardy reply-- i am still catching up with blog posts and comments and recalled that we were in the midst of an exchange! mostly what i ate was raw: fruit, nuts, salads, and beans cooked in a crock pot. it was not until i began associating with the sitting frogs that i was exposed to the wonders of cooked vegetarian food. once i moved into the Zen center, i began to dabble with cooking - i enjoy it immensely. i made a potato bake with cheese, onions, and mushrooms not too long ago.
Dashy! I know some folk who stuck to raw food for a while. I thought it was good idea till I saw this programme that said by cooking food the humans needed less gut and so had more head room for babies. If it wasn't for cooking, the boy said, we'd still all be scuffling about in the jungle. Hotboy
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