This is @unkp's lounge. He founded it, so I dedicate RRL-2 to him. It's an incredible night here in the northeast - full moon (or almost), windy and warm. Perfect night to be out.
RRL got too long to navigate which is why I started part 2.
Here is how @unkp started part 1:
Welcome .
This is an open thread.
Feel free to discuss any old thing at all
oh yeah
the Leonid Meteor Showers for tonight have already started. They are expected to go... until dawn.
Please go outside and see them, right now, if you can.
And, of course, some music, to get things going:
Spinning Wheel
(shoutout to @lynnventura and @rowsella ,
from the fab @michele-b 11:11 thread)
Again, This is a free range, open thread:
I was hearing the crows making a racket in the forest today and I wondered what they were up to so I googled it and ended up reading the most wondrous story about a little girl who had a friendship with a flock of crows. She started feeding then regularly and they started leaving her little gifts. The gifts are precious, all small trinkets that fit in a crow's mouth. Then one day her mother was out photographing some birds and she dropped her lens cap and lost it. A few days later the lens cap reappeared on the bird bath where the crows usually leave gifts. They rewound their bird cam and saw the crow bringing it to the bird bath, cleaning it, and leaving it for them. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31604026 Below are some of the gifts the crows brought her:
Love this story. Is this where I read about the crow whisperer?
https://harpers.org/archive/2021/04/the-crow-whisperer-animal-communicators/
@jeanne-mayell I needed to hear this about crows. Last summer, the crows had a big party in the trees behind my house, just a squawking and a carrying on. I even videotaped it, it was so amazing. Next step: I need to befriend them.
Hey y’all, I’m making shrimp and grits tonight and wish you could all come on over. I’ve been craving Low Country cooking and it’s been nearly three years since I moved away. However, I have a recipe from a favorite restaurant back there and feel like throwing a party. Who’s game? I need suggestions for drinks and apps. What are y’all bringing? It’s not a Southern party on the Rooftop Revolving Lounge without deviled eggs and pimento cheese with Ritz crackers. What music shall we have? Come on, y’all. You know you want to join in.
2016 was a time when my aunt showed her true colors, where she uses her beliefs to support far-right causes. I feel that her past life is where she was a sympathizer of fascism and my grandma and her were soul mates in past lives.
@bluebelle I am going to make a pasta frittata. Third night in a row. I made up a huge batch of GF pasta for a family reunion and I'm using up the last of it tonight.
While assembling ingredients, Put a cast iron or whatever skillet into a 350 degree oven -- make sure it's got 2 T of melted butter or oil.
Put all these ingredients together in a bowl:
- 3-4 T melted butter or olive oil
- Half pound day old cooked pasta chopped up
- A cup of shredded cheese - parma or whatever or even vegan cheese works
- Six eggs.
- Then add whatever leftover veggies you have around. Last night I added chopped sweet red bell peppers (any color is fine). I sliced some tomatoes and laid them on top. Night before I added broccoli and bell peppers.
- Herbs fresh cut from the garden: dill, parsley, baby spinach, chives. Or dried is okay too.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
Take the skillet from the oven and add the ingredients. It may sizzle. Good!
- Then sprinkled the top with extra cheese, and I also added optional GF crispy bread crumbs.
- Now cook over the stove top on medium heat for about five minutes before putting into the oven for about ten minutes or until all is cooked.
I actually doubled this recipe because I had so much pasta, and it was great! Along with a salad, I fed five hungry adults with leftovers for breakfast.
Now I'd like to know how to make shrimp and grits.
I forgot to take photos but this is what it looked like.
@bluebelle Crows love unsalted peanuts.
I must be a crow then. But here's the concern about feeding them. I read that if you feed them, you had better plan to be consistent. They can get mad if you stop.
Also I failed to mention that the neighbors sued the crow-friendly family for disrupting the neighborhood with all those crows. They bring their friends when you start feeding them. I will try to find the article so we can know what happened.