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Jul. 8th, 2005 03:25 pm3 pints blueberries
1 mango
3/4 cup sugar
1 lemon
1 cup something to approximate the sugar, acid, and flavor aggressiveness of sweet white wine (ginger ale? apple juice with lime?)
1 teaspoon ground cardamom seed
2 hands capable of taking a mango apart
The last part turned out to be most challenging. There's a temptation to snack on blueberries while waiting for appropriate hands to be available. They were good blueberries. With less than 1.5 pints of blueberries, it becomes impossible to make even a half recipe, even if the mango were to spontaneously peel and core itself, so a person might as well go ahead and eat the rest of the berries. As I said, they were good berries. Without the berries, there's no particular reason to keep the white wine substitute. This led to the apple juice being drunk (you'd think someone was actually intoxicated, considering this terrible lack of agency in my kitchen.)
The store across the street from my apartment was happy to supply another 3 pints of blueberries, of only marginally inferior quality. There was still no temptation to eat ground cardomom seed (with a spoon or otherwise.) It would have seemed inappropriate. More than a pint of blueberries disappeared last night, as I was reading _The Nutmeg of Consolation_. If Dennis cooperates, the hands capable of taking a mango apart may arrive this evening, early enough to actually do something. In the mean time, I am resisting the the proverbial temptation to "make lemonade" when something inconvenient happens.
1 mango
3/4 cup sugar
1 lemon
1 cup something to approximate the sugar, acid, and flavor aggressiveness of sweet white wine (ginger ale? apple juice with lime?)
1 teaspoon ground cardamom seed
2 hands capable of taking a mango apart
The last part turned out to be most challenging. There's a temptation to snack on blueberries while waiting for appropriate hands to be available. They were good blueberries. With less than 1.5 pints of blueberries, it becomes impossible to make even a half recipe, even if the mango were to spontaneously peel and core itself, so a person might as well go ahead and eat the rest of the berries. As I said, they were good berries. Without the berries, there's no particular reason to keep the white wine substitute. This led to the apple juice being drunk (you'd think someone was actually intoxicated, considering this terrible lack of agency in my kitchen.)
The store across the street from my apartment was happy to supply another 3 pints of blueberries, of only marginally inferior quality. There was still no temptation to eat ground cardomom seed (with a spoon or otherwise.) It would have seemed inappropriate. More than a pint of blueberries disappeared last night, as I was reading _The Nutmeg of Consolation_. If Dennis cooperates, the hands capable of taking a mango apart may arrive this evening, early enough to actually do something. In the mean time, I am resisting the the proverbial temptation to "make lemonade" when something inconvenient happens.
