Cat stuck in tree

Firefighters called.

(See, now, that's the headline they should've gone with.)

Been thinking about umami lately

Not the taste, the word. I've seen the original Japanese glossed as "tastiness", "deliciousness" and "pleasant savory taste" (which seems to be what it means in English today anyway) but for some reason I don't often see it glossed as "yumminess", which means about the same thing and has the advantage of sounding intuitively similar.

This irks me a little.

Speaking of umami, I made spinach with raisins and anchovies yesterday. I'd made a test batch of an old bag of random heirloom beans to see if they would cook properly (they did!), so I made this dish with polenta, as suggested, because that was the first recipe to pop up where I had everything in the house already. Except I used smoked salt. And then I made my spinach using a recipe I'm sure I cribbed from the NY Times once, and I'll shove it under this cut: ( Read more... )

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Protests planned against Trump's national emergency over the border wall

It's a bit miserable out there for a protest, but if I go early to the one at Union Square I can hit up the bookstore and also get some groceries. (Or is it more appropriate to do my shopping after?)