I would not make a good brachiator

[thanate]

(stolen from thewronghands): "In the beguinage God created the hebdomad and the earthfall. And the earthfall was without formalization, and void; and darnex was upon the facette of the deerhair." Also, making a mess of that Wordsworth daffodil poem that I only remember because the intro English class several of us took the spring of our freshman year (before they decided you didn't need to take an intro course after all) had a focus on post-colonial literature, and one of the short stories we read involved a man being torn about having to teach the poem in a class somewhere on the far side of the world where the students colored their line drawings of daffodils in bright jungle colors because they had no idea what they were supposed to look like.

Meanwhile, my arms are still quite sore from climbing on Tuesday (thus reminding me that I should go more often) and I have just finished the last of the yellow soup from last night.

Yellow Soup with green accents, also boiled to the point of not being particularly soupy anymore:


(this is the target brocade tablecloth that we got)

*2 links of sweet italian sausage, cooked then cut
*2/3 of a medium sized acorn squash, peeled & cut up small (would have been the whole thing, but I got tired of cutting...)
*a third of a box of small shell pasta (what was left...) cooked & then added
*something like 2 T of parmesan cheese
*a dash or three of thyme
*a cup or so of frozen corn
*about a quarter of a green pepper, chopped small
*lots of water, most of which had boiled off by the end

I cooked the sausage in a little water & cut it up (highly irritating, since most of the knives aren't quite up to sausage skins), and then put it back in the pot, adding squash bits as I chopped them, & a little more water. Started the pasta water, chopped more squash (I started doing this at entirely the wrong angle, so this was more of a task than normal, complete with somehow managing to drop things all over the floor & thus having to wash them off again), cooked pasta, chopped more squash, drained pasta & added to sausage & squash pot, decided that was enough squash, added more water, thyme, & cheese, stirred, got out the frozen corn & added some of that, stirred, remembered there was still a little green pepper in the refrigerator, chopped that up, added it, and then turned the heat down from medium to low, because grauwulf had been eaten by work, and got home an hour late.

Surprisingly, it turned out to be quite tasty, particularly with a little black pepper added.

Ok: more tea, then more writing.

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[grauwulf.livejournal.com]

not surprisingly it turned out to be damn tasty. I had the other container of leftovers for lunch and now I am left with the tupperware smelling like all kinds of yum-yum but with no more left for ma-belly :( Definitely worth keeping that as a recipe.