Very peaceful and beautiful

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I made a pretty successful peanut soup.

Beef cubes, beef broth, onion, tomato, peanut butter, horseradish, hot pepper, hot paprika, navy beans, peanuts for garnish, with the big win being putting in a bunch of sage.

Sauteed the beef, onions, spices, and hot peppers in olive oil, then simmered that and the rest of the ingredients for something like ( Read more... )

I broke a block of seafood stock, so it had to be used sooner rather than later.

A quart of seafood stock
lb. of scallops
2 collard leaves (they're big)
shallot of unusual size
1/2 lb. of cremini mushrooms
salt
Taurus Mountain Thyme (all herbs and spices are Burlap and Barrel)
Wild Timur Pepper (a relative of szechuan pepper)
Buffalo Ginger
IRU seeds ( ( Read more... )

I don't like jello. I think I can tolerate the texture now, but it was off the menu for me when I was a kid.

We were given a pamphlet of jello recipes to choose from. I still remember the one which had slices of cream cheese with pimento symmetrically arranged for ornamentation embedded in it, but since I wasn't planning to eat it, I chose the best- ( Read more... )

We might not know half of what’s in our cells, new AI technique reveals

We didn't know about at least half the structures inside cells. Wanna bet that the kidney cell doesn't have a complete set of structures? Wanna bet some more that the AI wasn't *quite* right?

Should we have been expecting this?

I might start referring to cells as mystery blobs.

"In ( Read more... )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59x8eeB1bYk&ab_channel=tonebasePiano

A remarkable piano lesson-- master teacher, advanced student. There's just tremendous trust and respect.

It made me realize that yelling at people is showing a lack of trust that they're listening. (Cue up people explaining that's not the only thing it means.) I'm not saying you can ( Read more... )

I've reread the Hobbit, and enjoyed it more than when I read it as a kid, mostly due to reading more carefully.

I did a series about it on Facebook. I'm reposting my posts here to make them easier to find and get further discussion, but there are good comments at the Facebook links.

https://www.facebook.com/nancy.lebovitz/posts/10221497714854725

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reposted from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nancy.lebovitz/posts/10221519403996940

(There are good comments there, some talking about friendly teasing, some pointing out longterm pain from unfriendly teasing. Another post turned up that sometimes anti-bullying policies work and sometimes they don't.)

I'm going to tell a little more truth than ( Read more... )

https://nancylebov.livejournal.com/414049.html

Bringing back an old post-- I thought everything from livejournal was copied to dreamwidth, but maybe not. There are good comments at livejournal.

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Do you think this is accurate?
[Note: this is going to sound at first like PUA advice, but is actually about general differences between the socially- ( Read more... )

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/frank-lloyd-wright-edith-carlson-untold-story/

She's very clear about what she wants. He makes a plan, but hasn't paid excessive amounts of attention.

They never achieve a meeting of minds.

I treasure this:

"I looked first for the windows which Mr. Wright told me he would put in the southeast wall of my house. I could ( Read more... )