[Sca-cooks] Weekend discoveries

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

It's been a nice, lazy 3-day weekend.  I made a few pleasant
discoveries.

1. I bought a couple of big fat carrots at the Asian grocery.  They
were about 1-1/2 inches in diameter at the narrow end, once the tip
was trimmed.  I cut off a 2-inch chunk, and had no trouble at all
hollowing it out with my apple corer.  (I have the kind that is a
metal tube with a handle at top.)  Perhaps the older, larger carrots
tend to be softer, and less liable to cracking?  I have not yet
experimented with either of the stuffed carrot recipes, but making
the carrot "tubes" will be no problem.

2. I scored a copy of Zapko's _A Dictionary of English Weights and
Measures from Anglo-Saxon Times to the Nineteenth Century_ at
the used book shop.  It was a steal at $10.  So the next time I
need to know what a puncheon is, or a frail, I'm set.

3. At the other Asian grocery, I found a 1.75 oz. (50 g) bottle of
galangale for $0.89.

Of such small things is happiness made.


Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
rcmann4 at earthlink.net