[Sca-cooks] Weekend discoveries

[Olwen the Odd]

Good shopping!
Olwen

>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


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