09:19 – I feel better now. It isn’t just me who’s been unable to shoot down Santa Claus. I saw an article in the paper this morning that NORAD has been tracking him for 60 years and has apparently never even been able to get off a shot. That’s not surprising, I guess, since when he’s moving it’s at about 0.999C and he only stops for a few nanoseconds at each home as he robs it of milk and cookies. This guy commits billions of home invasions every year, and apparently there’s nothing anyone can do to stop him.
So, I’ve decided to give up. Oh, I’ll put out poisoned milk and cookies as a gesture, but I’m not expecting much.
And you wonder why he never stops at your house with presents for Barbara and Colin and a lump of coal for you.
Merry Christmas (or Happy Hanukkah) to all.
Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fthagn!
Io, Saturnalia!
To our friends on the other side of the date line, Merry Christmas!
To those here at home, you still have either most of the day, or a whole day to get out there and boost the economy with your spending. It’s almost unpatriotic to waste a potential day of spending. (I feel covered for a while, draped in it in fact, after spending a week at WDW.)
But seriously, whatever the reason, even as simple as the turning of the year or an excuse for a party in the darkest season, take some time and celebrate that we are still alive, the apocalypse didn’t come, and we have time to prepare.
I’m gonna do a couple of delayed craigslist deals, clean up, get a couple of last minute items under the tree, do some food prepping for tomorrow’s feast (bone on pork rib roast from costco, fingerling potatoes, seared brusselsprouts with truffle oil, acorn squash, and some sort of pie.)
Kids are already squabbling.
nick
Merry Christ/Han/Kwan/Io/etc to all, and to all, a happy New Year.
Happy Christmas, Satunalia or whatever you holiday of choice may be!
Roger that, on the greetings!
Going to pick up a ham at HoneyBaked Hams, then schedule a Lyft ride for this afternoon to bring the ham to my daughter’s for tomorrow: http://www.mystore411.com/store/view/23749651/HoneyBaked-Ham-Huntington-Beach
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=honey%20baked%20ham
Lyft ride back and forth will allow me to have a few PBRs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3iVHxP8FQ
Happy Men’s Shopping Day!! Go for it!
(Merry Christmas to all, and to all, a Good Night!)
To see how long I can be civil today I am just going to wish you all A Merry and A Happy and can add your choice for the rest of the greeting 😉
Still have to decide what sort of breakfast crock-pot recipe to put together this evening so I don’t have to cook breakfast tomorrow morning. Tonight is a crock-pot baked ham and tomorrow night is a crock-pot bone-in prime rib with oven roasted garlic butter herb Yukon Gold Potatoes. (Have I mentioned how much I like my crock-pot?)
Safe travel to all of you who are hitting the road, sky, and/or sea.
Always preparing, always watching, always ready…
Well, Merry Christmas to y’all. I’ll be scanning some photos of various family members to post on Facebook, then at 3.30 PM will be picking up my brother (who no longer drives) to take to the family gathering at my sister’s place for Christmas dinner at 8 PM (yes, 2000 hours!)
It’s fixing to be 40 degrees C here, and my sister is worried about the electricity failing half way through roasting the turkey/pork, so we’d have unfinished meat with no a/c. So she’s made other plans… 🙁
Hey, you hater! That’s a microaggression against emos and their quest for quiet but visible misery.
quick note,
Nestle’ Medium Cream (in a can) or Media Crema, is NOT good one year after expiration date.
It turns into a puck of dense white stuff, surrounded in an oily yellowy fluid.
Didn’t smell bad or off, or even really have a smell at all.
Since this is my coffee cream stockpile, I’m gonna have to find another long term storage option. I can always drink my coffee without cream, if need be.
n
while on the subject, costco grape juice, in the big clear jugs in a two pack, also does not store well for more than a few months. It goes turbid, and stains the plastic jug. Lots of sediment. Then when opened, develops floating mold. yuck.
Hm, the grape juice (Berri brand, from South Australia) I drink lasts for years. I routinely drink it a year or more past its best by date.
@SteveF, you caught my attempt at a clandestine microaggression. You get a gold star. I’ll let Santa know, but it is probably not enough to get you off his “naughty” list.
Oh wait, that is your favorite list 😉
WRT liquids stored in plastic bottles: I have found that they do not hold up well, sometimes not even being good to their whatever date particularly if they are stored in less than ideal conditions (e.g. oils, vegetable juice, fruit juice). The only exception is bottled water.
And a prepping success story:
On the day before my departure, I was packing some ebay stuff in foam. Had out my foam knife, which is “wicked sharp.” In a moment of inattention, I reached for the knife, and got a nice slice crosswise on my left thumb. Basically, tried to slice the tip off.
This is not my first injury like this. I could see the skin flap wasn’t perfusing with blood, so no point in stitches. Last time, they removed the flap, cauterized the area, and sent me back to work. Took a decade for that to fill back in.
No desire to spend hours in an ER and get the chop, or even a stitch, so I hit my ‘big’ first aid kit. Cleaned up, and put a steri-strip across the flap to hold it in place and apply gentle pressure, covered with big bandaid.
Changed everything out every couple of days during the trip. And it’s looking good. Much more attached flap than I thought. I’ll probably continue the steri-strip and padded bandaid for a while as it’s still a bit sore when banged. Eventually, I expect the thinner part of the flap to get hard and peel off, but the thicker part seems to have attached well.
Moral of the story is, I was able to quickly treat a (relatively) bad injury at home, without any fuss, because I had the supplies on hand. (and later on MY hand)
Prepper WIN!
‘Course this is grid up and I could still go to the ER if complications developed.
If you don’t have some steri-strips in your kit, get some. And double the wound care supplies in the cabinet. A real wound takes up A LOT of supplies.
Go me!
n
ADDED- also, I prefer ‘flexible fabric’ bandaids to any of the plastic kind. NOTE: the genuine Bandaid ™ brand sticks WAY better than other brands. HEB – our local grocery chain- versions are almost unusable. The industrial generics I got in my work first aid kits are better, but still not as good. This is an area where it doesn’t pay to skimp. Get the real thing. Costco has a variety pack in a white oblong plastic box that is quite useful.
My LTS grape juice says things line Cabernet, Pinot Noir and Merlot on the label. No best by dates. Maybe a best after date.
I’ve got some grain stored that way!
n
Lots of spendings here too. In the last days, the supermarkets were opened until midnight, and today until 6 or 7 PM. Only tomorrow they are closed.
A lot of food is being bought and prepared by romanians (too). I helped my parents today with that. We prepared ‘sarmale’ [1] which are minced meat rolled in sauerkraut[2] leaves, along side with some smoked sausage, and before eating it we put over it a spoon or two of smetana[3].
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarma_%28food%29 (but not the first picture – that looks weird)
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauerkraut
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smetana_%28dairy_product%29
We also prepared the soup, and salata de boeuf ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salat%C4%83_de_boeuf ).
And the oven was used to cook some pork meat, and some cookies.
We’ll have a big lunch tomorrow with almost all the family (11 persons: parents, brothers and wifes, the nephews).
Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! 🙂
And here are some romanian carols (‘colinde’), that you’ll hear a lot in romanian houses, especially today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94-XBYWwoY0
4 hours of them. Enjoy!
Miles, is there something strange going on, or is the electrical grid in Oz so brittle that it can’t handle the load on a warm day?
Been out catching up in the gardens. 80F and 74%RH. Some sun.
Thinned the beets, radishes and turnips. Radishes are about 3-4 inches leafy, and I had a couple the size of typical olives. Tasty. Turnips are about 3-4 inches of leaf, but no root yet. Thinning resulted in a couple of cups of greens, which I might try in a salad. Beets are less than an inch to just over (leaves.) No sign of the spring onions.
I’m currently drinking a limeade made from the fruit still on the tree. One fruit yielding 3 tablespoons of juice. Got a bunch of fruits still, larger than the lemons and the same color, but distinct lime taste.
Lemons are right on the edge of ready, with a good crop on the tree.
Had one of my midget grapefruits for breakfast. They are the size of a tennis ball, have really thick skins, but otherwise are tasty. Ruby reds. (don’t know why they are so small)
I had my ONE orange off the tree before going on vacation. Red fruit, and super juicy and tasty. Nice and sweet.
Collards are taking off, finally. In a week or so, I ought to be able to harvest enough for a side dish without hurting the plants.
Talked to the neighbor, and we avoided the freeze that was predicted. The herbs still look good. The tiniest frost kills the basil, so I’m glad I can harvest it first.
Also found and ate TWO pecans while messing about. That brings the total edible crop so far this year to 10. I hope the squirrels are getting fat on them because I’m certainly not.
Good crop of acorns this year. Not like the year after the drought, when they carpeted the ground, but should be a nice larder for the squirrels. I know there are ways to prepare acorns for human consumption, but I’ve never been that hungry. Maybe I should give it a try. They use a ton of water though from what I remember.
n
@eugen, I’ve been listening to the Christmas songs. They sound like a mix of greek and russian to me. I’m guessing they are in a very traditional style?
We have at least 2 businesses in the area owned by people named Hrusca! There must be some Romanians mixed in with all the Germans who settled this area.
nick
Obuttwad continues his destruction of our Republic:
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/distraction-obama-propaganda-provision-law/
“Miles, is there something strange going on, or is the electrical grid in Oz so brittle that it can’t handle the load on a warm day?”
Yeah, the state government sold off the electricity utility, the new owners don’t maintain the hardware as well. The government also fiddles with subsidising “green power”, so coal fired power stations become uneconomic and are shut down.
On Earth, Peace to men of good will.
Nothing more needs to be said.
You excluded politicians and lawyers. Well done.
Obuttwad continues his destruction of our Republic:
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/distraction-obama-propaganda-provision-law/</I?
Obuttwad and the statists in the congress and senate of both parties continue their destruction of our Republic. (FIFY)
@eugen, I’ve been listening to the Christmas songs. They sound like a mix of greek and russian to me. I’m guessing they are in a very traditional style?
I’m not familiar with greek or russian songs. But we have the same religion: the eastern orthodox, and I guess the songs should have something in common.
Stefan Hrusca is a musician and sings them artistically. So, to show you how we, the non-singers, normal everyday person sing them, I found some examples on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfrWeluokMQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzD9Goaxiu0
The custom is like this (for my town):
It happens on Dec 24th, in the evening, and sometimes can last way after the midnight. At first, you meet with your group (collegues, friends, …) at somebody’s house, early in the evening. You rehearse there some songs.
Then the group go and sing to places where they are expected, like a member’s house, or better yet its parents’ house (the parents are more prepared usually, in term of food and drinks), or a friend house.. There, the group sings at the entrance about two songs.
After that, they are invited inside, and sit around a big table, full of food and drinks, of course. That are more like cookies and cold dishes – grab-and-go kind of. The main drink is the wine, but not commercially bottled, but more like house made (elsewhere).
There’ll be a lot of laughs, good time, and joy. A few more songs, and then up and go to the next target.
Not too many years ago, on this day, my parents would receive about 2-3 groups such the ones in the videos, and that’s because we are 4 brothers, and each one might bring a group. And it happened when two groups overlapped. So it would be like 20-25 people inside the appartment(not a big one), with all the rooms occupied. Quite a party 🙂 .
Now, we are a bit older, and brothers became parents, so it seems we kind of start to stop doing that.
Hah! That is exactly what we call “carolling”. It is historical and rarely happens here anymore. Maybe someplace out in small towns…
Most of the traditional carols are easy to sing, and we learn them from childhood, very informally.
Today it is more common for an existing choir, (school kids, theatrical people, church singers, etc) to perform carols in one place where people might gather or pass by.
There were many such groups in various parts of DisneyWorld this week (where I was on vacation), and at shopping malls throughout the US.
The tradition of going house to house and getting treats has faded out.
nick
ADDED:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n12IkyrXNYA
although the song “Silent Night” is NOT one of the easy to sing carols, here is a group somewhere in the US. Note that it’s four years old.
We had carolers at our front door the other day.
Did you give them FLASHLIGHTS as treats?
@steve
hahaha
that’s the best one!
I think that, by this point, it would have been unexpected for someone not to have asked that. I just happened to be the one not doing family or church things at the right time.
First round of gifts have been opened.
I got the Infrastructure book OFD recommended, some food, some Sugru (which I want for my “fix it kit”) and another book I wanted.
Kids got a lot of ‘Shopkins’ which are the current thing for the 4-8 set.
Santa’s bribe has been prepared, the reindeer lures have been spread around the yard. The elf on the shelf has been beseeched for a good report to Santa. Now we just need to get the kids to bed, and wait for the jolly fat man to get the presents in.
nick
But first the jolly fat man is going to have a glass of something, and wait for the noises from the kids’ rooms to stop. Then, and only then, will he get some presents in.
nick
And you wonder why he never stops at your house with presents for Barbara and Colin and a lump of coal for you.
Heh. Coal is expensive nowadays !
We had the extended family Christmas last night. I may have gotten a Henry Big Boy large loop lever in .357 Mag. Heavy with that octagonal barrel.
https://www.henryrifles.com/rifles/big-boy/
Merry Christmas to all !
Xmas don’t start till midnight you pagans! Merriest Christmas to all, from beeyooteefull Shelburne Bay, Vermont, U.S.A.
Son got me a Nintendo Console, the new one with all the games, for Christmas. He was able to snag one on Amazon during the 10 minute window they had some available. He also got me a FLASHLIGHT, Surefire, G2X Pro http://www.surefire.com/illumination/flashlights/g2x-pro.html
Sucker is really bright on the high setting.
Lots of fireworks, lots of idiots shooting guns in the air. When did Christmas become a firework/bang holiday?
Stupid f-ers.
n
lots of idiots shooting guns in the air. When did Christmas become a firework/bang holiday?
Sorry to tell you man but, you are living close to the war zone. That is what gang bangers do …
Wow, the human race is going to die in 300 years due to waste heat.
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/
Specifically, the average surface temperature of the Earth plot is:
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/tmp.png
I am not sure of his math but it does look … interesting.
Well it’s 3.10 pm on Christmas day. All is calm…
We had the hoard around last night, a good time was had by all.
Lamb cooked in the crock pot, (thumbs up to Mr. DadCooks..), turkey meat done in the oven with roast potatoes, corn and various salads. Custard and pudding for dessert.
Currently 31C (88F), thinking of Mr. Miles in Adelaide with 41C (106F). 🙁
Anyway, Merry Christmas to everyone. Stay safe….
And the first bad news is:
Russian military plane crashes into Black Sea. 92 people on board, including a choir ansemble.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4064628/Russian-Tu-154-plane-carrying-100-people-flying-form-Sochi-Syria-disappears-radar-just-moments-off.html
Anyone who thinks we won’t have issues when the welfare payments stop, or when the trucks don’t get food to the stores should think about these videos a bit:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4064330/Massive-brawls-break-New-Jersey-Alabama-Georgia-malls-minute-holiday-shoppers.html
nick
One could draw some conclusions about the areas to avoid too.
I have equally convincing data, logic, and math, showing that we’ll be at absolute zero in a couple decades. Really! Plot the monthly average low temperatures where I am from August to December 2016, and then project that plot forward. Assuming no changes, human life will be impossible in less than a year and we’ll reach 0K before long. Not that we’ll care, as everything will be dead well before that point.
Lynn, what is the purpose of that gun? Is it mainly hunting or self defence? Does .44 Magnum, .45 Colt or .357 really matter? .44 and .45 seem pretty close.
just plain cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXmKHGqfFlc
“Crazy Chinese smiths. Forge a large flange on the street ”
Not really on the street but in an open air yard. Watch on 2x speed or start skipping forward after seeing the basic technique. Then look at the end for pix of the machining and the finished product.
n
The jolly fat man came. His beasts left hoofprints all over the porch, snorted up all the reindeer food, and left a few nose prints on the storm door. Fatty himself left a boot print in the fireplace ash, and scattered some dirt on the floor. He managed to eat most of the cookies left for him, and fed the broccoli to his beasts.
In his wake, several piles of presents were left under the tree.
I got a nice yeti coffee mug, a dash cam, and some more good books (basic butchery of wild game being one… intro to basic life support trauma care was another. That’s a bit of a juxtaposition 🙂 )
Kids got stuff they wanted.
Geek grrls are currently messing about with a cute programmable robot discovery toy.
yesterday’s craigslist buyer flaked, as they often do. I’ve learned better than to wait for them, or to order my day around them. Maybe later he’ll show up. He wants what I’m selling, has already bought one, and would like three more. I’ve got a pallet still to sell, so I’m motivated to make the sale happen. Still— CL=flake about 90% of the time. The benefit is off the books sales, cash in hand, and NO SHIPPING.
n
Thanks for the thumbs up Mr.K.
I have a lot of relatives in Australia and New Zealand, many got a free trip from the Queen of England. We can be a grumpy lot. But then some of the relatives so pleased the Queens and Kings of England that were given hunting rights to Royal Deer and Royal Swans.
My crock-pot breakfast turned out well. Simply frozen hash browns that have been thawed on the bottom, then a pound of pre-cooked sausage links, then a pound of shredded cheddar cheese, then pour over a dozen eggs and a cup of milk well beaten with a tablespoon of dry mustard and a generous grind of pepper. Cook for 6 hours on low (much more and the bottom will be too done).
Today I have a Prime rib in one crock-pot and roasted potatoes in another.
The cats thoroughly enjoy Christmas with all the paper and ribbon to play with. The wife and I put up a small tree (only big enough to hold one cat at a time) last night and it was still standing this morning (of course the base was weighted down with 20+ pounds of bricks).
@nick, that YouTube is very interesting.
Is yeti coffee anything like kopi luwak? Yuck, but de gustibus non est disputandum.
Christmas dinner at my sister’s was nice: roast turkey, quality saussage, beef kebabs, potato salad, prawns, and so on. The house was cool enough, despite the heat here. I had more booze than usual: two Carlsbergs, a ginger beer, and (shock! horror!) a glass of wine. (I have about two glasses of wine a year.)
The house was kinda crowded, with brother, sister, four neices and nephews+ partners, four grand nephews (between 10 months and 13 years) and one grand neice (10 yo, miraculously she’d been persuaded to wear a dress.) A couple of interlopers from Kuala Lumpar invited by my nephew, he was teaching there.
Lynn, what is the purpose of that gun? Is it mainly hunting or self defence? Does .44 Magnum, .45 Colt or .357 really matter? .44 and .45 seem pretty close.
Yes and yes. It is the perfect saddle gun. But, I have not ridden a horse in 20 years.
It is considered practical by some cowboys to carry the same caliber sidearm and longarm. .357 magnum / .38 special are a very nice caliber. .44 magnum / .44 special are a very nice caliber. .45 is a short case and does not carry much powder (800+ ft/sec).
Besides all that, I told the son last summer that I would like to have this lever action. And he told his grandfather.
“It isn’t just me who’s been unable to shoot down Santa Claus. … NORAD has been tracking him for 60 years and has apparently never even been able to get off a shot. ”
Shouldn’t private enterprise be expected to succeed where .gov fails??????????
Lots of people shooting at him last night in my neighborhood. I haven’t checked the local news to see if there were any casualties as a result. There usually is at least one during this season.
@dadcooks, that breakfast sounds good! Some detail on the pot o prime rib wouldn’t go amiss…..
The forging vid was really cool. I especially like the big hammer. No high tech needed there. We were doing forging like that in the 1800s. It’s apparently hard to find someone to do the really big stuff anymore. Most of the old machine tools that did the really big work were scrapped out long ago. Some folks are keeping them alive, see vintagemachinery.org or owwm.org for the wood working equivalent.
Keith Rucker’s youtube channel is good for endless hours of manual machining and some machine restoration too.
BTW, I like my crock pot too. Wife just got the newest hipster trend, the InstantPot, a computerized crockpot/pressure cooker combination. I’ll probably have to figure it out, since I do most of the cooking. WRT the crock pot, I mostly do traditional items, stew, pot roast, stewed chicken, and I use the flavor packs from the store or the full sauce pouches. Some of them are very good. I’ll be exploring more ‘modern’ styles of dish in the cooker this year.
nick
And in the ‘prepping is a lifestyle’ groove, today’s prepping experiment is–
Bread made with expired yeast.
I finally used the last of my yeast in a jar, “expired” in 2014, and needed a bit more for today’s bread machine loaf. Quick check of the pantry finds some foil packets, sealed, “expired” 2013. In the pot it goes. So for this loaf, we’re half and half, 2 year and 3 year “expired” yeast. I don’t have any doubt it will rise, but we’ll know for certain in a couple hours.
n
Pie is coming out of the oven, premade crust, dark cherry canned filling, right off the shelf in the garage.
In my (rather extensive, for anyone other than a pro baker) experience, yeast is one of the things that does go bad. It’s sometimes still good a couple years after the expiration date, sometimes not.
If you have questionable yeast, don’t just throw it in the bread ingredients and hope it works. Instead, set aside some of the water and sugar (or honey or molasses or whatever) from the recipe. Put the yeast in the sugar water and see if it starts bubbling. If you put good yeast in warm water, you should see bubbles within a few minutes. The longer the delay, the more of the questionable yeast you’ll need, assuming warm water to start.
In the future, for ordinary use, keep yeast in the refrigerator, not the cupboard.
For prepping purposes, put a pound brick in the freezer. It’ll stay good longer than your lifespan.
Also for prepping purposes, you can grow your own bread yeast. Get the instructions from an advanced homebrew book; the yeast varieties are different between beer and bread, but the method for growing yeast is the same.
I like Crock-pot dishes and I love prime rib but can’t imagine using a crock to cook a prime rib, Too done. Prime rib just went in the oven here, About 4 hours to med-rare-rare. At almost $13o not going to ruin that meat.
Happy to oblige @nick…
Crock-pot prime rib is pretty simple. I use my 6.5qt. oval crock-pot for about a 5# bone in prime rib (2 bones) that has been brought to room temperature (about 2 hours out of the refrigerator, cover with foil). If the bones have not been cut off then tied to the prime rib then I do that. I use a dry rub called “Pappy’s Seasoning” but your favorite dry rub will work. I am liberal with the rub and untie the prime rib so that I can season all sides of the bones and prime rib, then tie the bones back on to act as a rack.
Make a sling from heavy duty aluminum foil folded over 4 times and drape it over the long sides of the oval; make it long enough so that you have 6 inches or so sticking out of each side of the pot.
Place your prime rib in, cover, and cook on low for 5 hours for medium. If you want a crispy crust on your prime rib place it in a 500°F oven for 15 to 25 minutes depending on how crisp you like things. Allow to sit for 20 to 30 minutes before slicing.
The week before Christmas the stores try to outdo each other with low prices on prime rib. However I don’t always buy the cheapest. I look for marbling, thin fat cap, and even size across the roast. The ones I bought were $4.44/lb., cheaper than good hamburger. The freezer is now full.
I too have an Instant Pot (the dual pressure 6qt. model) and am using it more and more. Great for cooking things from frozen.
WRT yeast: IMHO everybody needs to have a sourdough starter going and learn how to care for and use it. Do not buy a packaged starter (unless it is from King Arthur Flour), the internet is full over ways to start your own or if you have a real friend who has a starter they may share.
Well, a tiny bit of crow to go with my other dishes….
The loaf rose, but not as much as normal. Well within the variation I’ve seen with the now empty jar, but about 1/3 smaller. Will be a nice dense loaf for today 🙂
Maybe 3 years out of date, stored in the cupboard, is too long.
I didn’t see SteveF’s technique until too late.
I do have other yeast stored, but not in the fridge. I’m gonna put some fresh into the freezer this week. It’s cheap. (for disaster, I’m a fan of tortilla and other unleaven bread)
Brusselsprouts are ready to cook, fingerling potatoes are ready, roast is in the oven. I’m debating doing the acorn squash, as the kids won’t eat it and it looks like we’ve got a ton of food.
n
I have a no-fail method for brussels sprouts:
1. Open the package
2. Throw the sprouts in the garbage.*
In more than thirty years, I’ve not had a single complaint.
* Or compost heap, or out the back door if you have critters that will eat them.
Ah, but most people over cook them which makes them bitter.
Today we’ll be splitting them in half, sauteing them in bacon fat, with chunks of bacon, until tender, then tossed with truffle oil. Dress with a bit of butter and serve.
Quicker is to steam the small ones whole, split if large, until just barely tender. Toss with butter and salt. Serve.
Don’t let them go muddy darker green and you will be golden.
n
Last minute addition to the menu. Had some cooking apples were getting soft. Chopped them up, saute’d in bacon fat until brown and tender, finish in oven with cinnamon, sugar, and a touch of maple syrup (since it was on the counter.) Really good.
Everything was great. Even the bread was nice and softly dense.
n
All in all a very merry Christmas.
ADDED- and completely forgot to cook the turnip greens. Guess they’ll be good tomorrow…