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Sunday, August 17, 2008

42- SUPPER...OR DINNER?

"The squire's way" is a social commentary! So, in your family, or dining solo, do you have supper or dinner?
Every day in class we had a series of 'Ponderables' up on the board to the left, and I cannot think of a single person who didn't like what we did with them. From every angle, they were designed to start the class off with a chance for anyone to sound off, share an opinion about anything!
A) A mortar and pestle...maybe it's time to reintroduce an old-fashioned kitchen tool back into the kitchen. Herbs, when fresh, create a tantalizing aroma when rubbed around the bottom and sides of the mortar to be introduced into a recipe or salad, especially with the bright, colorful ones. Notice the next time you check the cupboard for a modern dried herb, for smells and color???
Dillweed...what an aroma when fresh and mixed about a mortar and added to a salad or potato salad. Pesto...oh mi ga! The biggest decison of your entire day, though, is what kind of mortar...glass, marble, wood or stone...try stone.
B) BLUE food? Any veggie or fruit that is blue, since we cannot mess around with Nature to create a true blue rose or flower, has got to be OK? Blue Indian corn! Peru is sending us purple Peruvian potatoes. We have wild and cultured blueberries that contain exciting anti-oxidants for our health at our supper...or dinner tables. Heard about 'Blue Laws' back in our American society in the the 1960s? In Virginia we couldn't go to a movie on Sunday or even buy certain items then, too...not OK.
C) Do families or couples have at least one meal a day together away from the maddening crowds today? Is there a social customary time for dinner or supper every day? Wille and Carl, paternal grandparents, always sat down together on or about 5:30 pm. Beans of some kind were a standard fare every evening and a small glass of wine. She was quite particular about not allowing anyone outside of the home to know about the vino, thinking that narrowminded persons would claim that, well....
D) So, what is it?...supper or dinner? Please share YOUR comments below, thanks.
E) Coming....more fears and phobias, oh my!

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