The Polls Only thread has stopped updating me about new posts so I keep reading replies to ones I haven’t seen yet. Anybody know how to fix this? I’ve tried changing from “tracking” to “watching” and back but that hasn’t worked.
I’d guess you’re getting notifications and your device is forgetting to tell you. Restart device.
We regularly make meals that use up whatever needs to be used up. It allows for creativity in the kitchen. Some of my best meals have been thrown together stuff. Sadly though they’re always a one-time thing.
I have restarted it. Still nothing. I think it’s a problem with Discourse. The only thread that doesn’t keep me updated is that one. All of the other notifications work. It’s weird.
From your cite:
…lede felt like, not jargon, but slang, from the same generation as —30— to represent the end of a story…
Since was taught the latter in journalism school circa 1975, I can only conclude the former is also canon.
My mom would boil to death all sorts of things she called “greens”. Mind you she was a child of the depression, a farm girl.
I was torn as to how I should answer the soup question. We never made a soup out of literally everything in the fridge, but my mom did sometimes make vegetable soup by throwing in whatever vegetables needed to be used up.
Haven’t been reading those – but just checked, and one of the libraries I go to has at least a couple of them, and they do look interesting. Thanks for the suggestion!
Neither my mother nor I make “everything in the kitchen soup”; but my mother made a more planned version of it – leftover bits of vegetables, the small bit of water they were cooked in, meat bones, etc. would be saved, in the freezer if needed, and then when there were enough add a couple of good onions, and very likely some barley, and make soup.
And I make a mixed-vegetables thing along the same lines: saute onions and garlic in a bit of olive oil, add whatever other veggies are around that don’t seem absolutely incompatible (often the better portions of the seconds which didn’t make it to market) until the pan is full. Side dish or if over rice with some cheese melted on top a one-dish meal.
Yeah, I know that one. ‘This is delicious! I should make it again – but I don’t remember exactly what I put in it, let alone the proportions.’
Never been to Europe or the UK. I’ve turned down a few chances, like when my brother lived in Germany (for work) and when my gf went to the UK and Iceland.
The thing is I love the Caribbean. If I’m leaving the US it’s to go to an island.
I have been to Paris but missed it in the poll.
Ok, I’ve googled it and have found lots of references to the Stone Soup folk tale, and references to soapstone because Google doesn’t believe that I can spell what I’m looking for, but I’m still not sure I know what a “soupstone” is. Something for keeping soup hot? I thought those go in a bowl, not the pot while it’s cooking.
You can change your vote by clicking the grey “vote” button at the bottom of the poll and voting again.
Ooh! Live and learn, thanks.
It is a nod to the Stone Soup story. The one she had or has was/is about golf ball size in a string wrap/cord hanger with a ring on the end of it. It is supposed to sit in the pot while it cooks, both imparting flavor from the last pot and absorbing from the current pot. The fanciful idea is that when you come to a pass of great poverty, you can heat up a pot of water and use the stone to get some brothy flavor.
That isn’t actually how the stone works in the story.
Well, yes, I am familiar with the story. The soupstone is justa weird affectation.
My mom called it leftover soup.
I recently got Hellbent and Lives of Puppets but haven’t started either yet
I’ve only been to Lisbon.
It was for a wedding. Our hotel was just a few blocks from one of the ginjinha counters. Everyone there knew me by first name inside a couple of hours of us checking in. We got there first, and everyone who arrived I took them down there for shots.
Dublin, Madrid, and Lisbon for work, multiple trips for Madrid and Lisbon. Lots of good eating in Madrid and Lisbon, some okay Guinness drinking in Dublin. At least I got to see some of the James Joyce sites.
We also drove up to Belfast, that was very interesting.
Some other sites as a tourist.