Jul. 21st, 2012

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See here?

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This little flame of orange is my first sun-ripened open-air chilli: I hope the first of very, very many. It's a chile de arbol, since you ask, and watching its behaviour thus far I think it's going to dry on the vine as it ripens, which is just fine by me. As you can see, there should be lots of these. I may even make my own chilli powder. (Chilli powder is another Thing That Is Not The Same in this country which is after all not just England With Better Weather: in the UK, chilli powder is powdered chillies, over here it's numerous spices mixed together, mainly chilli and cumin and oregano and garlic and after that they get secretive. There is a whole blog post to be written about the spice cupboard and the differences which appear to be defaults.)

Oh, and one other thing: any idea what this is?

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(The banana is for scale. Useless hint: I was going to use the cat for scale, but then the cat wanted to start eating the Object, please, so I removed him.)

Answer )

Quandary

Jul. 21st, 2012 07:07 pm
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M'wife is at one end of the house, anticipating dinner.

I am at the other end of the house, beyond call, with a cat very firmly settled in my lap.

What to do?

[EtA: all is well. He heard a birdie. Vroom!]
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Is it supererogatory to label a packet for the freezer "Soupe au pistou sans pistou"? It does feel a little like "ten plus two minus two" - but in this case I think the addition-plus-subtraction conveys more useful information than a simple "Soupe" would do...

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