thanks again

[jinian]

Further Thanksgiving adventures:

• Went to family gathering only a bit late, so did not quite miss the traditional garlic-and-stinky-cheese appetizer


• Got stared at for several minutes straight by child of Beautiful Cousin #2 -- why?


• Knitted stuff and watched the dog show on TV


• Ate really good turkey and salad with normally-good potatoes and gravy


• Experienced the weirdness that is the chocolate fondue fountain, and ate of its bounty (pineapple, strawberries, pound cake, peanut-butter and regular rice-krispy treats)


• Played Cranium and discovered the clay was growing very rectangular clear crystals (!)


• Played Cricket Cricket I'm on Fire with six and then seven people -- minimal but still fun


• Ate pumpkin pie made by the King of Pie, hattifattener


• Overall we all had pretty good family interactions, which is not always easy

A fine holiday.

Comments

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I am simultaneously amused and squicked by the Cranium crystals.

I think it's the regularity of them that's freaky. *shudder*

[jinian.livejournal.com]

'Cause, eek, what are they made of? I didn't think to test their solubility in anything. I hope they're just sodium chloride or something, but the clay is special non-drying stuff, and it doesn't smell like table salt... We picked them out and put them in the trash.

the traditional garlic-and-stinky-cheese appetizer

[rubricity.livejournal.com]

Tell me more about this. It sounds like heaven to me. :)

Re: the traditional garlic-and-stinky-cheese appetizer

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Roasted garlic is mashed up with whatever nice cheese (I don't know what they got this year, but it had nice mold veins) and scraped onto soft bread with knives for consumption in large quantities. It is awfully good, if something of a migraine risk when I have a bunch of it.

Re: the traditional garlic-and-stinky-cheese appetizer

[gwyneira.livejournal.com]

If it weren't midnight, I would be going to the store right now to acquire garlic and stinky cheese. Mmmm.

Re: the traditional garlic-and-stinky-cheese appetizer

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me -- have you ever tried Explorateur cheese? I saw it at PCC a while ago and keep meaning to ask, since it looked lovely. (Mostly I have to get my wonderful-cheese exposure vicariously these days.)

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

The event I was at had Wensledale cheese, inspired by WALLACE AND GROMET. It was good, sort of nutty with some exterior mold (that I was fine with but apparently it weirded some others out.) Also I had brie that I put dried cherries and other berries in, yum.

Then I got a horrendous migraine that was barely addressed for maybe a half hour by double my usual drugs (also had sinus problems and sleep problems, so, multiple potential triggers.) This perhaps answered that nagging 'what would happen if I didn't eat dairy for a while and then had a whole lot at once?' question I'd been turning over in my mind lately.

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[rubricity.livejournal.com]

No I have not but a little research on the internet intrigues me so I shall try to remember to try it after I've worked my way through the chunk of Saint Andres I have right now.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I assumed that the clay contains silicon in some form, and the crystals are when it polymerises with oxygen from the air. But I actually have no clue if this is what happens. I don't think silicone crystals are that regular in shape.

Doesn't the lid say that it might form crystals, which are harmless? Can't remember now.

[beaq.livejournal.com]

KING! OF! PIE!

Garrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrlick!