Subj: 743 bitter elements

"person with a neurotic fear of PTC."

I haven't taken the test but I suspect I'm one of them.

It's not really super. It's like what's your
superpower, only not as good as turning swill
and porridge into bacon.

I do save citrus peel

The flavors changed, first subtly, then majorly.

Mine never last long enough for that to be a problem.

In some culinary circles vintage citrus peel
has become a fad thing. You can pay big bucks
for stuff that has been sitting forgotten in
the back of the cupboard for decades.

Commander's [...] melontini

I have had quite delightful frozen Midori margaritas and daiquiris
served in Hurricane glasses years ago in Hawaii.

Doubtless part of the delight was being in Hawaii.

Subj: 744 chine bone

It is said that the Anglo vernacular was used for everyday
stuff, whereas Romance became reserved for the classier and
more elevated and more godly concepts.

And that's why our so-called four letter words are considered
uncouth ... they're not just descriptors of crude bodily functions,
they're Anglo Saxon.

Well, urinate on that!

Subj: 745 career paths was + pa

Who was it, Canute or someone, who took up arms against the sea?

Maybe.... or was it Lear....?

Yes, it was Canute.

The two interpretations I've seen are that
he was a power-mad megalomaniac blowhard or
that he did it to prove that even royal power
was nothing compared to the majesty of God.

Subj: 759 herbs and spices

Also at age four, arguing with a toy store cashier, "Why
should kids have to pay sales tax? We don't get to vote!"

A kind of precociousness that can be frightening.

Lexi was like that too. 2009 was the year of the nasty swine flu
epidemic, worst one since the WW1 Spanish flu, and Obama was
freshly minted as president. Lexi was four and listening to the
grownups talking about the news. Combining two threads, she came up
with the following theory, "The stupid people don't like him because
he's black and when he said everybody should get flu shots they
won't do it cause they don't like him; so all the stupid people are
gonna die."

Darwinette, eh.

Amusingly, there was a municipality in Texas
by that name, about which Wikipedia notes:

Today, Darwin is a ghost town where all
that remains is a cemetery.

Kugluktuk [...] moose [...] tasted moosey but somehow a wee bit different than normal [...] lots of dwarf willows [...] Salix
herbacea

I wonder if that lends a wintergreeny taste to the flesh.

No, the difference in taste was subtle and hard to describe, but
not wintergreeny.

Things in the willow family, I forget the
botanic term, perhaps Salacious, contain
salicylates (hence the name), which tend to
taste wintergreeny. We have, I admit, been
discussing cases where "you are not what you eat."
Corn-fed beef doesn't taste much like corn, though
grass-fed beef tastes grassy. Monkfish has a
somewhat crustaceany undertone, made much of by
the monkfish industry. And we've also discussed
the qualities of pigs fed with various wholesome
people-worthy ingredients such as apples and
acorns vs. pig chow and swill.

I have blended my own [...] Lebanese seven spice blend

You'll have to get a grinder just for strong spices.

I do have one just for that and Roslind has a different one for her
coffee beans.

Curry coffee might be interesting. Check
this out (a delightfully zany site) -
https://tinyurl.com/currycoffee

Canada goes from zone 0 to 7 and I'm in 1B which is
allegedly somewhat better than 1A.

Is 1A permafrost?

Canada and the US have slightly different formulae for calculating
zones. Yours is based on the lowest winter temperature recorded:
Zone 0A is -65 F or worse, 0B -60 F, 1A -55 F, 1B -50 etc. Ours
also considers the number of frost free summer days.

Frost-free days seems to be relevant.

Zone 1A will have a lot of stable permafrost, In Inuvik foundations
are built by drilling through the soil with an auger until ice is
hit and dropping log pilings down the hole. The floors are three
feet or more off the ground and heavily insulated to both keep the
home warm and to prevent the ice from thawing.

How far down is bedrock in such places?
Ice is getting unreliable these days.

Yellowknife has patches of discontinuous permafrost in places that
grow and shrink on a seasonal basis but never goes away completely.
Naturally we don't try to support our building foundations on that.

Yeah. In Barrow we visited sites where the
permafrost has become permamuck, to the
detriment of older structures and likely
the rest of the local civilization.

Title: Lebanese Seven Spice Mix 1 ts Allspice 3 ts Black
pepper 1 ts Cinnamon 1 ts Cloves 1 ts Nutmeg 2 ts Fenugreek 2
ts Ginger

Lot of fenugreek. Does it make it more "currylike"?

I must confess that both my ginger and my fenugreek were old,
stale and weak so I had to double the amounts used.

Old fenugreek might as well be beans.

... When I was a kid Cheerios had just one flavour and it was paper.

Wax paper at that.

Curry-coffee chicken skewers with chilli sauce
categories: satay, appetizer, snack, poultry
yield: 12

4 chicken thigh fillets
4 Tb curry powder
4 Tb ground coffee
1 ts fine sea salt
8 Tb sweet chilli sauce

Ignite the charcoal in the Big Green Egg and heat,
with the Cast Iron Grid, to a temperature of 220C.

Meanwhile, cut the chicken thigh fillets into 2 cm
cubes. Mix the curry powder with the ground coffee
and sea salt. Rub the mixture into the chicken
cubes and then skewer them on 12 small sticks.

Place the skewered chicken on the grid of the Big
Green Egg. Close the lid and grill 4 to 5 min. Turn
the chicken over and grill for another 4 to 5 min
until done.

Remove the skewers from the grid and serve with the
chilli sauce.

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Quoting Michael Loo to Jim Weller <=-

I have had quite delightful frozen Midori margaritas and
daiquiris served in Hurricane glasses years ago in Hawaii.

Doubtless part of the delight was being in Hawaii.

You're right. They didn't taste the same back home. I looked it up
and the place still exists after all this time. I was there in 1980
when it was new and shiny. It didn't serve food though back then,
just 90 cent drinks. It was a meat market and I was single.

https://moosemcgillycuddys.com/

it was Canute.

The two interpretations I've seen are that
he was a power-mad megalomaniac blowhard or
that he did it to prove that even royal power
was nothing compared to the majesty of God.

Based on his track record he was probably pretty smart, so I suspect
the latter.

Things in the willow family, I forget the
botanic term, perhaps Salacious, contain
salicylates (hence the name), which tend to
taste wintergreeny.

Some do. White willow is very wintergreeny.

the qualities of pigs fed with various wholesome
people-worthy ingredients such as apples and
acorns vs. pig chow and swill.

Bill feeds his misshapen, wormy, rotten cabbages and rutabagas to
them but not for the last six weeks of their life. That's when they
get treated with sweet corn, apples and barley mash. After the
first frost they get to run amok in what's left of the family the
garden and feast on lettuces, melons and anything else they desire.
They tend to ignore things like onions.

a grinder just for strong spices.

Roslind has a different one for her coffee beans.

Curry coffee might be interesting.

I am unsure about that. But I have made coffee with half a cracked
nutmeg, one cinnamon stick and a couple of allspice berries in the
filter basket along with Demerara sugar. After it's brewed the pot
gets couple of drops of vanilla and a swig or two of rum.

Speaking of which, vanilla extract is back down to $8 from $20 for a
bottle so I guess the vines have recovered from the cyclone damage
and are producing in quantity again. (I was about to give up and buy
artificial vanilla for the Christmas baking but was pleasantly
surprised at the store.)

Zone 1A will have a lot of stable permafrost, In Inuvik foundations
are built by drilling through the soil with an auger until ice is
hit and dropping log pilings down the hole. The floors are three
feet or more off the ground and heavily insulated to both keep the
home warm and to prevent the ice from thawing.

How far down is bedrock in such places?
Ice is getting unreliable these days.

Inuvik is situated on the Mackenzie River's delta and bedrock is
very deep. Typically the first meter of soil is subject to a
seasonal freeze/thaw cycle. The next 6-10 meters tends to be the
permafrost zone, and sometimes much more. Bedrock can be 40 or more
meters down.

Yellowknife has patches of discontinuous permafrost in places that
grow and shrink on a seasonal basis but never goes away completely. Naturally we don't try to support our building foundations on that.

Yeah. In Barrow we visited sites where the permafrost has
become permamuck, to the detriment of older structures and
likely the rest of the local civilization.

We've lost a few buildings here in recent years.

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Cheers

Jim


... Curry: take all the spices in your cupboard and mix them together.

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