I've always liked sauerkraut, but in making my own I've discovered that unsurprisingly it has a different taste and texture than the stuff you can get canned at the store. It's pretty easy to do, too. This (http://hungrytigress.com/2009/12/holiday-sauerkraut-3-ways/) is a pretty good tutorial. I've done a plain batch, as well as one with caraway seeds mixed in. The taste of the latter reminds me of a Reuben sandwich. Tomorrow I'm going to pick up some juniper berries and try a batch with those, as it appears to be another traditional variant.
My daffs stopped coming up two years ago, but my paperwhites come up gangbusters every year. I need to lift and separate them this year. (My god, they're not flowers, they're a bra! ^_^) Unfortunately, this year they came up gangbusters while I was out of the country. Alas....
I tried the Silmarillion once. I couldn't get past all the begats. It was too... dry? dense? something, anyway. Maybe it's just that, as you put it, it was taking itself too seriously. Perhaps some year I'll give it another try, reading it as a lark.
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Date: 2015-02-05 06:34 am (UTC)I've always liked sauerkraut, but in making my own I've discovered that unsurprisingly it has a different taste and texture than the stuff you can get canned at the store. It's pretty easy to do, too. This (http://hungrytigress.com/2009/12/holiday-sauerkraut-3-ways/) is a pretty good tutorial. I've done a plain batch, as well as one with caraway seeds mixed in. The taste of the latter reminds me of a Reuben sandwich. Tomorrow I'm going to pick up some juniper berries and try a batch with those, as it appears to be another traditional variant.
My daffs stopped coming up two years ago, but my paperwhites come up gangbusters every year. I need to lift and separate them this year. (My god, they're not flowers, they're a bra! ^_^) Unfortunately, this year they came up gangbusters while I was out of the country. Alas....
I tried the Silmarillion once. I couldn't get past all the begats. It was too... dry? dense? something, anyway. Maybe it's just that, as you put it, it was taking itself too seriously. Perhaps some year I'll give it another try, reading it as a lark.