Re: Boiled Green Peanuts

On Tue, 5 Nov 2024, Citizen Winston Smith wrote:

On 11/4/2024 2:26 PM, D wrote:

  On Mon, 4 Nov 2024, Citizen Winston Smith wrote:
 

On 11/4/2024 2:55 AM, D wrote:

  On Mon, 4 Nov 2024, dsi1 wrote:
 

On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 22:48:14 +0000, Michael Trew wrote:
 

On 11/2/2024 7:40 PM, dsi1 wrote:

 I don't know a thing about those critters in Hawaii. If I saw one, I'd
move in the opposite direction. I can still remember a picture I saw
when I was a kid, it was a bunch of terrified swimmers being chased by a
pack of barracuda. That picture struck me in a peculiar way. You could
say that it was not in a good way.

 Do you ever see Jacksons or Veiled chameleons in your part of Hawai'i?
We now have one of each as pets in screened enclosures, but I'm told
that both are invasive species in parts of the islands.

 The chameleons have been in Hawaii for 20/30 years. They are fascinating
animals but really are too tough to keep. We've had several but it never
ended up well for the chameleons. Good luck with yours!
 If you keep your eyes open, you're always going to see some new invasive
animals popping up around here. There's not much that can be done about
that. If we start seeing snakes, I'm leaving!
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IULBtezvoys
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lMhPHZNOqU
 

 Don't you worry! Snakes are cute and have a great personality! (If you don't go too close or poke them with a stick)
 When I stay at my house in spain, from time to time there are snakes basking in the sun. I sometimes try to see how close I can get without them slithering away or becoming aggressive.
 There are also porpoises, very friendly as well, but very, very shy.

 Ha, so you get Spain and Parma ham when the seasons chill then, how exceptional!

 Oh you bet! In spain, in the local super market there is a small heaven on earth in the form of their meat counter! Behind it, for several years, there has been an old woman, and every time I come there she shines like the sun, because she knows that she'll sell 50-100 USD worth of ham, sausages and other goodies!
 I usually buy low quality ham for my wife with a lower fat content, and when I say "low quality" that is stuff that would cost 100s of USD per kg in sweden or the baltics, _if_ you even can find it there.
 Then I buy some high fat content jamon iberico, and it just melts in your mouth.
 I do a lunch where I fry some bread in garlic, add a thin layer of freshly, mashed tomatoes on top, a it of pepper (no salt), and on top a thin slice of that wonderful ham! The ham has the salt, so no salt necessary. Oh, I add a small pinch of sugar to my crushed tomatoes.
 This dish is simple, but due to the high quality of the ingredients it is amazing!

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I might toss basil leaf on to boot, but you have purity in a sammich right there.
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Any echoes of post-Franco to be heard these days?
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https://youtu.be/OxsLdIbnd0s
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It would seem timely.
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Difficult to say. In my corner of spain, there's mostly retired people from the UK. But I do have an old acquaintance from my time in Chicago who is from spain, and she would whole heartedly agree that things were better during Francos time.
Currently spain is busy self destructing in the best socialist tradition, so probably the winner of the next election will be a more conservative government.