Monthly Cooking Thread, November 2020

[Jamestown1630]

This Month: Carrot Pickles, Fancy Cookies, and beautiful birds of myth and fable.

I hope everyone enjoys an exciting and victorious Election Day; and a great next Four More Years!

-JT.

[texas booster]

Two things that I just learned from you:

Pickling carrots is a thing, and that a Ravenmaster is not just a fake movie character.

[Jamestown1630]

LOL!

[leaning conservative]

Evening. I was just wishing for your soothing & delightful thread. The rolling pin is beautiful. I have some cookie stamps.
Speaking of cookies. When I visit my in laws in MA there is a cookie & cake place called Veronica’s Sweetcakes. I actually have an envelope of saved up cash. I use said cash to buy enormous amounts of cookies & eat them. Cookies are my very favorite sweet item.

[Jamestown1630]

I’m partial to cookies, too. I tend to like my sweets full of fat :-)

[coaster123]

How do you keep the cookie dough from sticking to the stamp?

[TianaHighrider]

Love the embossed roller. What brand was it? Would love to get one from Poland like you did.

[MomwithHope]

I’ve put carrots in an empty pickle jar with the old brine and it works well.

[Jamestown1630]

There’s a story about one of the ravens at the Tower.

Apparently, one day they found a raven dead, flat on its back, legs sticking up in the air. There was a lot of consternation over this death, with people standing around and looking at it.

Apparently, another raven noticed all the attention the dead one was getting and, according to Skaife, began a practice of ‘playing dead’ for the tourists, to get attention of its own.

Tasha Tudor kept birds, including doves and parrots. She trained one parrot to ‘play dead’, which she would then serve up at dinner on a parsley-lined platter. (Scroll down a little):

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/412360909613654341/

[Jamestown1630]

look for ‘embossed rolling pin’ on Etsy. There are several different Polish vendors selling lots of nice designs.

[coaster123]

[TianaHighrider]

I haven’t shopped there before. Will check it out. Thank you.

[Jamestown1630]

They have lots of really nice things, many from independent artists and artisans from all over the world.

[Jamestown1630]

Happy Hallowe’en :-)

[coaster123]

Same to you!

[lizma2]

” I tend to like my sweets full of fat :-)”

Me too. Butter and tomatoes are gifts from God.

But His blessing lately is TRUMP

[Jamestown1630]

Beer. Don't forget Beer.

But Benjamin Franklin didn't actually say that 'beer is proof that God loves us'. He actually wrote about wine; or rather, he used wine as an example of a 'miraculous' conversion, in a paen to God's providence:

“We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana, as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.”

-1779, letter to André Morellet

[leaning conservative]

I am absolutely embarrassed to say that I have never used my cookie stamps.....hangs head in shame. Now I pretty much have to don’t I? I will let you know as soon as I try them out.

If that is you in the towel you are very adorable.

[coaster123]

I look even better sans towel.