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1. Articles about long-term singles read by a single woman (who is generally very upbeat about her singleness) on Valentine's Day can, for some reason, cause melancholic texting.
2. Friends who respond to said texting with encouragement and/or snark (and who do not say "Don't worry, you'll find someone.") are worth their weight in gold.
3. It's Girl Scout Cookie Season.
4. There is an astonishing variety of meatless protein meat substitutes, most of it quite good.
5. Kale is very delicious, and you can cook it remarkably like spinach.
6. Sometimes, the best part of the chocolate tasting event is the spicy cooking sauces booth.
2. Friends who respond to said texting with encouragement and/or snark (and who do not say "Don't worry, you'll find someone.") are worth their weight in gold.
3. It's Girl Scout Cookie Season.
4. There is an astonishing variety of meatless protein meat substitutes, most of it quite good.
5. Kale is very delicious, and you can cook it remarkably like spinach.
6. Sometimes, the best part of the chocolate tasting event is the spicy cooking sauces booth.
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Date: 2012-02-29 07:25 am (UTC)From:2. I'm glad your friends came through for you. "Don't worry..." is silly. Not to do so would be... not like other people.
3. This is a valuable public service, because I never know when that falls, and since our school has no Girl Scouts. I have to be pro-active to hunt one down and buy some for my husband the Thin Mint addict.
4. And some of them astonishingly bad. Our family remembers with fear and loathing the Tofurkey which we served as a joke for my rabidly anti-no-turkey-Thanksgiving brother-in-law, just before we brought the actual bird out. B-i-l had been very worried because he'd heard from my sister that we were apostates who preferred lamb or roast beef to the traditional Turkey. My brother actually kind of liked the Tofurkey Jerky, once he got past the expecting it to taste like any jerky he'd had before. Are you dabbling in vegetarianism, or are you watching someone else do so, and trying things as you go?
5. Yes. My mom is a big kale fan. She often adds it to soups.
6. Our town hosts an annual chocolate tasting event. I've never been. Now that I'm a diabetic, of course, it would be pointless, but before, when I could have tasted everything - I was a little concerned that I'd do just that, and that it would end up being more distressing than delicious. I think it helped that as a child I made a bit of a chocolate tour of Paris and Athens (where there were some expat Austrians at work), and I'm betting that the chocolate fleshpots of small-town Vermont are not likely to be more spectacular than that! Still, I've had some excellent molé down in Houston in some of the better Mexican restaurants, so I bet you're right.
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Date: 2012-02-29 04:38 pm (UTC)From:4. HAH. I tell people that you have to stop expecting "chicken" or "beef" and just enjoy it for what it is. I have been mostly vegetarian in my home cooking for a while, and find that I like the added variety, not worrying about contaminating other things with raw meat, and the ease of storage--not to mention all the lovely veggies that are in the good recipes. But I still eat meat, too. *shrugs*
5. Soup! It would be great in soup, because I bet it wouldn't get too mushy, but just mushy enough.
6. I bet you're right about the comparative awesome of chocolate tasting locales. And tasting everything is maybe not quite as dangerous as it sounds. They're very small tastes, and eventually even really good chocolate gets tiring. That being said, my parents also went and ended up buying extra. So. Yeah.