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I decided to make a soup out of veggies that needed to be used (not nearly dead). Onion, celery, potato, tomato, summer squash, crimini mushrooms, baby spinach. With some fresh dill, because they sell dill in these enormous bunches that could feed half of eastern Europe. And a tbsp. or so of Better than Bouillon vegetarian concentrate. Seems to be working.

I use it in soup a lot. Lately I see recipes advocating for it in other things, salad dressings, flavor boosting (salty, umami). Simplest, and most traditional, is miso soup: tofu, scallions, miso. Maybe add shiitakes or carrots if you want more ingredients, but the classic still shines.

Thanks for that article, Bernard.

Culled from Facebook comments:

“Abraham Lincoln saw it. He said it was the worst experience he’d ever had in a theater”

“I called the theater to find out what time the showing started. They said, ‘What time can you get here?’”

I'm glad I'm not a teacher having to deal with this stuff either.

@Steve-Miller said in Weather where you are thread:

Just before we moved here a friend gave me this goofy hat, saying it seemed like something I’d need. He thought it was hysterically funny.

I just love that the ear flaps…have ear flaps.

10 inches of snow, with some variability across the city. We did some shoveling today but it’s taxing physically, and we have a lot of sidewalk, being a corner property. It’s now sleeting, which makes the snow even heavier. We’ll have a local guy finish up tomorrow.

Single malt helps.

@Daniel I admit that games can be fun and contribute to cognitive health and social connection, but I think robust activities like travel, attending concerts or museums, practicing an instrument, vigorous exercise, auditing a college-level course, etc., can more strongly enhance well-being.

@CHAS said in Old People Love Soup:

@RealPlayer
How do you heat miso without killing the bacteria that is supposed to be in it?

You don’t really deliberately heat it up. But you have to mix it into a hot liquid to create a broth. We add miso at the end of the cooking time. Take some hot liquid from the soup, put it in a separate bowl or Pyrex cup, dissolve the miso in that, stirring with a spoon. And then add to the bulk of soup. Or heat up a cup or two of water, dissolve miso in that, then add to the soup.

I make a vegetarian soup about once a week or every other week. For regular soup I use the food processor to chop carrots, onions and celery to make the soup base, then add broth and main ingredients. Another fave is miso soup, which is incredibly easy…I usually add scallions, mushrooms, tofu, maybe Japanese radish.

But I also liked soup before I got “old.”

Balmy low 40s today but descending into the teens tomorrow. Sunday is supposed to be a big snow day.

Laurence O’Donnell was right. We’ve twisted ourselves in knots all week over Greenland, and LO said he really wouldn’t use force to get Greenland. Today Trump said he won’t use force to get Greenland.

Which is not to say that a lot of damage hasn’t been done.

Daniel: I refuse to buy clothes or shoes without a try-on. Except for maybe shirts. My feet need orthotics, jeans come in myriad “fits.” The cycle of buying and returning seems like such a waste to me, but it must be good for people who must have the widest choices or the oddball sizes.

I wanted to buy new drawstrings for 2 sets of pajama pants, as the old ones frayed and snapped. Wanted to avoid Amazon. But couldn’t find them in online searches of Macy’s, Target or Michael’s craft stores.

If you type “drawstrings” into Amazon’s search box, boom — dozens of options come up immediately.

What would you do? Use a different search term? Search different types of stores?

Yes…ordered from the big A. Not thrilled, but it’s only 5 bucks.

And don’t bears scratch their backs by rubbing against tree bark?

@wtg said in Thoughts on portable electric heaters:

@Daniel said in Thoughts on portable electric heaters:

I considered buying a small indoor propane heater

Those give me headaches. I would avoid.

It would seem that the words “propane” and “indoor” should not appear next to each other.

Kind of crude to remove a former benefactor’s name when someone comes along and throws more money at it. Fisher/Geffen Hall?

We have an oil-filled DeLonghi (pictured a few posts up there) What do you think of leaving it plugged into the wall, even though turned off? They all recommend unplugging after use, but the only usable plug in this room is behind some heavy furniture, and it would be a pain to move that furniture every time. Anyway, so far no issues.

@Steve-Miller said in About that Ford employee:

$810K?

Where do I sign up for a gig like that?

The right heckle at the right time!

But it’s great that he didn’t back down and his Union stood behind him, and only got a suspension.