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Souping it
Bryan Simmons wrote:
> On Friday, October 16, 2020 at 11:02:12 AM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote: >> On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 09:57:02 -0400, Dave Smith >> > wrote: >> >>> On 2020-10-16 1:34 a.m., Doris Night wrote: >>>> On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 22:18:21 -0400, Dave Smith >>> >>>>> I tasted it, and it is delicious. >>>> >>>> We love butternut squash soup, but it's getting to be a rare treat out >>>> here in Alberta. >>>> >>>> When I was in Ontario a couple of years ago, I recall that you could >>>> go to any farm stand and buy a squash for $0.99. Or you could pop a >>>> couple of seeds in your garden and get a dozen of the suckers for >>>> nothing. In Alberta, they run to $1.99/pound. So you have to be >>>> thrifty with them. >>> >>> They aren't cheap here anymore. A couple years ago they were selling >>> them by the squash, and they were huge. Now they are about 3 times the >>> price and small. I used to get squash for supper and then enough left >>> over to make soup. Now they are sold by the pound and are so small that >>> one squash is enough to dinner for two or for soup, not both. >>> >>>> >>>> I actually peel them, then carefully cut them up into cubes (not >>>> wasting any flesh whatsoever), and roast the individual pieces. I >>>> would find that roasting the whole squash then scooping out the flesh >>>> would be wasteful. >>> >>> My wife likes doing it that way. If she is willing to do it and save me >>> the time and energy that is fine by me. >>>> >>>> However, I make my soup the same way as you. But I do add a bit of >>>> cream at the end. >>> >>> I add a dollop of yogurt or sour cream when I serve it. >> I can't remember ever buying butternut squash, it's very easy to grow. >> I don't peel them, I scoop out the seeds for the critters and roast >> the squash until the skin becoms a little crispy, then we eat the skin >> too. >> I don't remember ever buying cream either, neither of us likes creamed >> soups. Occasionally I'll cook with evap.... evap can be whipped. >> During WWll people used a lot of evap, my parents creamed their coffee >> with evap, regular milk didn't keep well in the ice-a-box. People fed >> their babies evap when breast milk was getting low. I still think >> that evap is the closest thing to breast milk on tap... I like to >> drizzle evap on icecream, it forms a sweet frozen crust same as >> squirts of my mom's breast milk. Mom had to ween me at five years old >> so I could go to kindergarten. In many countries today women breast >> feed until their kids are eight years old. Where I lived on Lung >> Guyland there was a large Hispanic population, it was common to see >> ten year olds being breast fed in public, in super markets, >> postoffices, wherever and those young women made no attempt to cover >> up... some of those Hispanic women had bosoms so huge they'd need a >> painter's tarp to cover them. > > You know, Sheldon, there are women who will, for a pretty high price, > allow men to to suckle them. I don't think that's illegal as long as they > don't engage in any prohibited activities, and most do not. Google is > your friend, and NYC isn't a long drive. Of course you should wait > until the Covid vaccine, but then you could treat yourself. It's not my > thing, but it's not unwholesome, or even perverted, and you know you'd > love it. > > --Bryan > Hell, he was talking about "slurping shlongs" earlier. |
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