apple skins
Mar. 20th, 2019 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7I'm chewing apple skins at the moment-- made myself apple crisp on monday, and we had it for dessert that night but i've been eating it for breakfast ever since because why the fuck not, I'm a grown up lady and can do what I want. Also we went to Z's mom's last night and she sent us home with kind of inappropriate leftovers. (Mostly corned beef which Z will eat, whatever, but also half of a chocolate sheet pan cake, which like, I like cake fine, but it's a whole lot, and Dude won't eat it and it's frosted with Cool Whip and pudding mix, which is also pleasant but not my scene like regular old buttercreme would be, and it's loaded up with peppermint extract to make it "St. Patrick's-y" and that's also fine but not super my scene ["ayy, we're a minty folk," I said at the time, in a vaguely Yorkshire accent because I'm bad at Irish ones, and I still feel like I should have been able to make that funny but I was not able to. Alas.].)
Anyhow-- my jaw is slightly swollen and feels weird and taut but I'm having no trouble chewing in this instance? I don't understand, I'm working pretty hard on these skins. Yes I know you're supposed to peel apples for crisps and pies but all the nutrients are in the skins and I'm lazy as fuck, and I'm a grown-ass lady and maybe this is why nobody ever asks me to bring anything to the potluck. Listen I think I own a vegetable peeler but I haven't used it in years, don't ask me to conform to your bourgeois notions of vegetable nudity. If I can't just scrape it with a paring knife I'm not eating it. My family hasn't peeled a potato since 1989.
God, apple crisp for breakfast is so fucking delicious. It's gone now, and I'm sad. But I have more apples-- I bought myself two weeks' worth of packed-lunch apples at the market, and then got home and Veg Manager pointed out the cooler full of slightly-bruised apples the other apple vendor at the market gave them for the pigs, which he does almost every week. Those apples are faintly musty-tasting, his no longer sellable ones, but still good enough that the pigs can spare me a few to bake with. I considered applesauce but I just love apple crisp so much. I wonder if I slice and freeze them if i could make more crisp later, or if they'd just be *too* mushy already. (They get mushy anyway when it's cooked. Hm! Maybe I should experiment.)
Ordered myself a few plants and some seeds from Companion Plants, thanks tojust_ann_now for the rec-- I splashed out and got two madder plants, since they didn't have the seeds. I think this commits me to putting in a garden at my house, though. Listen, I could, if I do the cardboard and woodchips method of weed control-- you put down a layer of cardboard, then woodchips over top, and then cut a hole to plant the thing you want to grow. By the time the cardboard decomposes (kept from flying away in the wind by the woodchips), the grass and weeds have been killed. You can reapply cardboard between rows of things, and at the edges, or you can move on to a different method to maintain your garden bed-- deep mulch is a good one-- but the cardboard gives you the brute force to get it started.
This is how they've done quite large areas at the farm! And I know Veg Manager is doing it a lot near his orchards, so that he can keep the grass back from the bases of the plants so he can mow between rows and not have to worry. The only issue is that the cardboard can be slippery if you put it in your walkways. It removes the need to double-dig etc, or to strip sod away and then have to replace all the topsoil somehow.
So, I need to plan my garden, and also I need to figure out when my seeds/plants are arriving so I can get them over to the farm. I wasn't clear on which seeds need advance starting and which can be direct sown, I'll have to find out.
I also am filled with the desire to make something out of the grove with the yurt in it this year. Last year I pulled garlic mustard like a fiend but that's never enough, it takes concerted effort for years to get rid of that stuff. And I saw the seeds for sale somewhere! Are you crazy! No. But I have to cut down a badly-leaning ash (?) tree and then I don't know whether it'll be so shady there, so I ought to wait. There's some wild clematis that grows there, but also poison ivy and so much Virginia creeper I had to mow it with a lawnmower last year.
So maybe I'll get some gardening in, and maybe not. My big splurge was to buy some bareroot black cohosh, which is a native and is insect-repellent and I want that. So I'll start with that, and then I'll see how much sun I've got and if I can get anything else to grow there.
The eventual plan is for the whole farm to be sort of a garden; Sister wants native woodland plants all in the understory. But more important is the work of the actual farm, so. Shrug.
My own garden is I think going to be herbs and a few flowers and a couple of dye plants, but not anything I have to pay a ton of attention to. So we'll see.
Oh also last night Z's mom gave me a whole trash bag full of beautiful fine wool fabric, much of it in lovely jewel tones as if personally picked out for me, that someone painstakingly salvaged from garments, and then donated to Z's mom's quilting group (probably it was a descendant of the actual salvager who did the donating), and I'm distraught that it's so nice because I need to just USE IT. I'm going to have to make myself JUST USE IT. ... Maybe I'll make myself a quilted wool vest after all... Probably the Thing to Do is to gently machine-wash it and see if it is in any condition for anything, because I have no use for dry-clean-only anythings, and if it is no longer at all nice, it will become batting inside quilts and garments. Knowing that this sort of fabric is $30/yd is no use to me.
... Further reflection on the jaw pain: it hurts when I salivate? Weird as shit, my friends, and my procrastinatory hope that it'd clear up on its own seems to be coming to nothing. Well, what the shit.
Anyhow-- my jaw is slightly swollen and feels weird and taut but I'm having no trouble chewing in this instance? I don't understand, I'm working pretty hard on these skins. Yes I know you're supposed to peel apples for crisps and pies but all the nutrients are in the skins and I'm lazy as fuck, and I'm a grown-ass lady and maybe this is why nobody ever asks me to bring anything to the potluck. Listen I think I own a vegetable peeler but I haven't used it in years, don't ask me to conform to your bourgeois notions of vegetable nudity. If I can't just scrape it with a paring knife I'm not eating it. My family hasn't peeled a potato since 1989.
God, apple crisp for breakfast is so fucking delicious. It's gone now, and I'm sad. But I have more apples-- I bought myself two weeks' worth of packed-lunch apples at the market, and then got home and Veg Manager pointed out the cooler full of slightly-bruised apples the other apple vendor at the market gave them for the pigs, which he does almost every week. Those apples are faintly musty-tasting, his no longer sellable ones, but still good enough that the pigs can spare me a few to bake with. I considered applesauce but I just love apple crisp so much. I wonder if I slice and freeze them if i could make more crisp later, or if they'd just be *too* mushy already. (They get mushy anyway when it's cooked. Hm! Maybe I should experiment.)
Ordered myself a few plants and some seeds from Companion Plants, thanks to
just_ann_now for the rec-- I splashed out and got two madder plants, since they didn't have the seeds. I think this commits me to putting in a garden at my house, though. Listen, I could, if I do the cardboard and woodchips method of weed control-- you put down a layer of cardboard, then woodchips over top, and then cut a hole to plant the thing you want to grow. By the time the cardboard decomposes (kept from flying away in the wind by the woodchips), the grass and weeds have been killed. You can reapply cardboard between rows of things, and at the edges, or you can move on to a different method to maintain your garden bed-- deep mulch is a good one-- but the cardboard gives you the brute force to get it started.This is how they've done quite large areas at the farm! And I know Veg Manager is doing it a lot near his orchards, so that he can keep the grass back from the bases of the plants so he can mow between rows and not have to worry. The only issue is that the cardboard can be slippery if you put it in your walkways. It removes the need to double-dig etc, or to strip sod away and then have to replace all the topsoil somehow.
So, I need to plan my garden, and also I need to figure out when my seeds/plants are arriving so I can get them over to the farm. I wasn't clear on which seeds need advance starting and which can be direct sown, I'll have to find out.
I also am filled with the desire to make something out of the grove with the yurt in it this year. Last year I pulled garlic mustard like a fiend but that's never enough, it takes concerted effort for years to get rid of that stuff. And I saw the seeds for sale somewhere! Are you crazy! No. But I have to cut down a badly-leaning ash (?) tree and then I don't know whether it'll be so shady there, so I ought to wait. There's some wild clematis that grows there, but also poison ivy and so much Virginia creeper I had to mow it with a lawnmower last year.
So maybe I'll get some gardening in, and maybe not. My big splurge was to buy some bareroot black cohosh, which is a native and is insect-repellent and I want that. So I'll start with that, and then I'll see how much sun I've got and if I can get anything else to grow there.
The eventual plan is for the whole farm to be sort of a garden; Sister wants native woodland plants all in the understory. But more important is the work of the actual farm, so. Shrug.
My own garden is I think going to be herbs and a few flowers and a couple of dye plants, but not anything I have to pay a ton of attention to. So we'll see.
Oh also last night Z's mom gave me a whole trash bag full of beautiful fine wool fabric, much of it in lovely jewel tones as if personally picked out for me, that someone painstakingly salvaged from garments, and then donated to Z's mom's quilting group (probably it was a descendant of the actual salvager who did the donating), and I'm distraught that it's so nice because I need to just USE IT. I'm going to have to make myself JUST USE IT. ... Maybe I'll make myself a quilted wool vest after all... Probably the Thing to Do is to gently machine-wash it and see if it is in any condition for anything, because I have no use for dry-clean-only anythings, and if it is no longer at all nice, it will become batting inside quilts and garments. Knowing that this sort of fabric is $30/yd is no use to me.
... Further reflection on the jaw pain: it hurts when I salivate? Weird as shit, my friends, and my procrastinatory hope that it'd clear up on its own seems to be coming to nothing. Well, what the shit.
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Date: 2019-03-20 05:23 pm (UTC)She also used the cardboard method flawlessly to transform the too-shady yard in the inner part of the L the house makes, on the north side, into a spot for the swing set. It's just all a deep bed of wood chips, and that's perfect because nothing grows. Maybe some shade plants, in future, at the edges, but in the meantime, the kids would rip it all up anyway. She and the veg manager just put sheets of cardboard and a truckload of wood chips down all over the whole area where the house shades out the lawn, and it's held up beautifully.
So, I'm gonna do it! I'm not sure what my town allows in the front yard, though; I know there's some kind of ordnance about things being mowed but I don't know what they'd do if it was, say, creeping thyme.
It can't look worse than it does, I'm a terrible housekeeper. Which is the problem, and holding me back from anything ambitious.
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Date: 2019-03-20 05:18 pm (UTC)Mention it to your dentist next time you see them.
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Date: 2019-03-20 05:55 pm (UTC)uh I don't want to admit how long it is since I've seen a dentist, let alone had one I could mention things to. Suffice to say, if I don't have a PCP, I super don't have a dentist. LOL oh dear. That wasn't even on my radar among the shit I'm way behind on...
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Date: 2019-03-20 09:57 pm (UTC)TMJ can totally hit one side and not the other. Or if you do have it on both sides you can have a major flare up on just one side. (It runs in the family.) You should mention it to a doctor of some kind sooner rather than later because there's a possibility of damaging muscles and nerves in your face.
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Date: 2019-03-20 11:54 pm (UTC)I have 31 teeth left and none of them have given me any trouble since I had the one ankylost one extracted in 1993, so I haven't seen a dentist. I'm not saying nobody should, I'm not saying I shouldn't, but somehow, in the decades of precarious access to healthcare that have comprised my adult life, they haven't been the priority. *shrug*
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Date: 2019-03-21 11:01 am (UTC)Sigh.
This doesn't feel like that at all, it's outside of my mouth that most of the pain is, but I'll make an attempt with the hard candy this morning pre-Ibuprofen and experiment a bit.