darxus

I’d signed up for two meal deliveries this weekend, and Trader Joe’s got their kosher turkeys in yesterday, so I decided it would be easiest for me to cook a turkey this weekend.

1 13-pound turkey became:

2 trays with a turkey breast and a drumstick each, topped with peach chutney, slow baked over diced sweet potatoes* and chickpeas
1 tray of turkey thighs and tail, topped with Shepherd Herb Mix, slow baked over minced onion*, bits of sourdough bread, and a bit of sage* salt
1 tray of turkey wings, topped with Xinjian Spice Mix, slow baked over minced onion*, sliced carrots*, diced golden beets*, and the end of the peach chutney
1 pot of turkey soup, using the frame and the neck, also leeks*, carrots*, sweet potato*, and purple-top turnips*
1 pan of turkey gribenes, some put away for later, the rest sauted with onion*, spinach*, potato, and the bits of turkey left from a rather imperfect carving job on a not-fully-defrosted bird

* locally sourced

(“tray” here means 9x13 foil pan)

magid

Yesterday was the last day the US Mint made pennies, completing a 232 year run. I understand why (the cost to produce being three times the face value), but there will always be nostalgia. Given how many transactions these days are cashless, will it actually affect pricing, or will there be an informal “rounding if you pay cash” (in whichever direction) instead? (I suppose I’ll see soon enough given my day job.)

I wonder whether this will make pennies more collectible, for the numismatists who are enthusiastic about them? I have a *lot* of pennies I’ve found in the streets in the last years, not brought to either of the financial institutions I bank at, because one doesn’t do coins (!!!), while the other switched from a free coin counting machine for customers to one that charges some percent (I’m far too cheap to pay for the privilege of having the coins counted, but haven’t yet picked up the paper sleeves needed to roll the coins myself).

sorcyress

New Jersey wedding!

I am in the tiny seaside town of Ocean Grove, which appears to be one of the very few remaining "camp meeting" towns in the united states. Apparently this used to be a big thing in the 1800s? Also the town is chock full of queers, since there was some amount of depression throughout the 1970s-early 2000s and then all the fringe arty folks started moving in where the property was cheap.

It's a really charming place!

I'm here because Racheline has been coming here every summer since they were a child, since their grandparents live quite close, and it's where they and Patty decided to host their wedding. So yeah, driving down from Boston throughout the late morning and early afternoon and here in time to walk by the seaside and join in for the extremely charming ghost tour and do a bit of wandering in and out of queer little witchy shops. A great day, honestly!

The drive was _so_ needed. Like, traffic was worse than I'd hope (but way better than it could've been) and google desperately wanted me to go over the GWashington instead of the Tappen Zee (to the point where I have a stunning screencap in which I added "Tappen Zee" as a stop along my route...so google maps shows a route that goes over the bridge, then doubles back and south to cross the Hudson proper at the GWashington.) but other than that, it was a real nice reminder that I was raised on road trips and I still get a lot out of them. I stopped twice on the way down to stretch my legs and be not in car, and that was just about perfect. And I arrived only about half an hour after my original projected arrivial time, even with Merritt traffic and remapping shenanigans!

Also the car I'm borrowing has a CD player and like, I can't believe people make weird faces at me when I ask if their cars I'm gonna drive have such beasts, they're _just good_. Yes mostly because I can put in horrible mix tapes I made in 2003, but also it's just very soothing to have music that hums along with no interruptions or bad wifi connections and not having to give a stranger's car permission to talk to my phone. Some of the answer is eventually to create some more playlists on my laptop/phone, probably?

Anyways, I just checked and I'm realizing I made zero posts about the wedding last weekend, so, uh, that was also good? My life has been very very busy.

I hope you are well and having good adventures!

~Sor
MOOP!

magid

3 pounds of carrots

3 pounds of sweet potatoes

2 heads of green cabbage

8 leeks

a bunch of Hakurei turnips with greens

a bunch of radishes with greens

2 big bags of spinach (I swapped one for 4 more leeks; I still have tons of spinach left)

0.75 pounds of mixed salad greens (a winter salad mix: there’s not-quite-young red kale leaves in there)

take-what-you-want herbs and jalapenos (still didn’t take any)
First thoughts: more slaws, more baked root veggies, more sauted greens, something deliciously leek-y (potato-leek soup? leek frittata? caramelized leeks with baked butternut squash?)

Also, I ran into Talia at the distribution; it was good to catch up. And then she saw me walking, and offered a ride (their new place is approximately down the street from me), so we had more time to talk, plus I didn’t have to carry the veggies as far: win!

magid

I went to the library to swap out read books for unread ones, and found that there was a table by the entrance for trick-or-treaters. The librarians staffing the table were enthusiastic to get things to people, especially since it was less than an hour until closing. I resisted the candy and the sidewalk chalk, but succumbed to a branded microfiber glasses cleaner, and enameled I[heart]CPL pin, and one of the many bookmarks available, this one by Christopher Denise, with the message “Read Every Knight” with this owlet in armor engrossed in reading The Good Knight, which was too adorable to pass up.

magid

reduced a batch of mixed vegetable* stock (and started another gallon bag of veggie offcuts for the next batch of stock)
a tray of roasted carrots*
sauted red onion*, garlic*, carrot*, purple-top turnip*, and massaged kale* with much of the rest of last week’s batch of seitan
cabbage* and carrot* slaw with soy sauce and shiso* salt dressing
leeks* and red onions* baked, then topped with the rest of last week’s challah and sage* salt and baked until brown, then topped with a not-fully-defrosted spatchcocked chicken, which, once more cooked, was topped with the end of a jar of peach chutney (canned this August using Georgia peaches)

* locally sourced

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