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Making a traditional 7 course dinner for my sweetie in a month. Help me think up some dishes or come talk about food.
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    That sounds like a great idea! Pickled beets will probably hold their shape a bit better, and the acidity would be a nice touch.

    If you end up trying it, please post a photo and let me know how it is!

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    Making a traditional 7 course dinner for my sweetie in a month. Help me think up some dishes or come talk about food.
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    Ah, okay. Since you’re into using fruits in a savory way, I’ll share this idea I’ve had for a while (but haven’t tried yet):

    Peel some grapes, saving the skins. Soak the peeled grapes in some sort of marinade (salt, vinegar, oil, herbs… could be anything you want, really; although simple is probably better?). Dry the grape skins completely, grind them into a powder along with some salt, msg, citric acid (or whatever seasonings sound good). To serve, wrap each grape in long, thin slices of… something that functions like prosciutto? Avocado could work, chilled roasted beets could be good… Then top with the powder (lots on half the plate or something) and maybe a tiny cheese crisp or some other crispy element for a garnish.

    Edit: you could also slice the leftover peeled grapes really thin to use as a garnish in other courses.

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    Making a traditional 7 course dinner for my sweetie in a month. Help me think up some dishes or come talk about food.
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    I’ve used pectinase to dissolve the pith of citrus, and then just broken them up into pearls by hand. There might be a more involved method that breaks less of them, though.

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    Anyone have experience with using morning glory seeds?
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    It’s been about a decade since I used them last, but I had a good trip and didn’t experience any depression (on top of what I was already experiencing at the time; “it didn’t make my depression worse” would be more accurate, I guess). I purchased a couple Burpee bags from a gardening store, rinsed off the contents, and ate them.

    Took hours to come up, peaked for an hour or so, then hours to come down. Longer trip than acid, but more mellow in my experience. The worst part was the nausea, but that may have been from a coating on the seeds instead of the seeds themselves? Oh, wait. The worst part was the taste, actually.

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    [Repost] Are there any comrades in Southern California who can board my cats for a while? I can pay for the trouble.
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    I’m nowhere near close enough to help, but here’s a comment for visibility. Hoping you and your kitties get some help!

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  • I’m not *planning* on getting into any arguments or debates while I’m there, but I’d like to brush up on my anti-USSR/-Stalin propaganda just in case someone wants to make a big deal out of it. I’m not concerned about defending Stalin (the winds of history don’t need my help) but it could be an opportunity to get some bystanders to question their understanding of history. So feel free to post all your quotations, sources, debunks, dunks, rhetoric, etc. as long as it’s at least tangentially related to Stalin/the USSR.

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    Yes, I’m just salty I didn’t get a link reply in the historic thread. But I wanted to commemorate it anyway. :angery:

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    Can’t believe I never realized this before.

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