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I did not get sheep-dipped in Benadryl, but I am full of antihistamines and eating a pumpernickel bagel with chopped liver and a coconut-milk milkshake.
I have not become allergic to my cats. My long-time allergies to dust mites have worsened to the point where the mitigation strategies in which I already engage are not cutting it, so I have some further suggestions, an alteration to my medications, and we go from here. I also seem to have become allergic to pigweed, which I had never even heard of until I looked it up, at which point it turned out to be amaranth which I have both eaten and admired as an ornamental plant. I am decorated with surgical marker and punctures. I had been scratch-tested before, but never intradermally injected.
The fog at dawn was an astonishing suffusion of gold, glinting like rainbows around the Prudential. Afterward I took a couple of pictures from MGH and the Longfellow Bridge. I believe my plans for the afternoon involve a nap.
I have not become allergic to my cats. My long-time allergies to dust mites have worsened to the point where the mitigation strategies in which I already engage are not cutting it, so I have some further suggestions, an alteration to my medications, and we go from here. I also seem to have become allergic to pigweed, which I had never even heard of until I looked it up, at which point it turned out to be amaranth which I have both eaten and admired as an ornamental plant. I am decorated with surgical marker and punctures. I had been scratch-tested before, but never intradermally injected.
The fog at dawn was an astonishing suffusion of gold, glinting like rainbows around the Prudential. Afterward I took a couple of pictures from MGH and the Longfellow Bridge. I believe my plans for the afternoon involve a nap.
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All the fog burned off and they were blue as space!
I am glad you aren't allergic to your cats.
I went immediately home and picked up Autolycus and put my face in his fur.
I did not know that amaranth is called pigweed too.
My father had been thinking about buying an ornamental one for the front yard and has very kindly scotched this plan. I never had Greek amaranth! That sounds really nice.
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I think putting your face in Autolycus's fur is a great celebratory move.
The Greek amaranth was amazing. I am not sure what all they put in it. I mean, olive oil, lemon juice, garlic and I think some oregano were discernible, but there was a very unfamiliar complex of other flavors that could, I guess, simply have been the amaranth.
I noticed above a mention of amaranth in callaloo, and I've been lucky enough to have that when we had a Jamaican restaurant close by, but I think theirs was a mix of taro, okra, and spinach. Possibly they had trouble getting amaranth too.
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He purred.
I noticed above a mention of amaranth in callaloo, and I've been lucky enough to have that when we had a Jamaican restaurant close by, but I think theirs was a mix of taro, okra, and spinach.
Hey, look, I would eat that, too.
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Most of the amaranth I've seen, in the northeastern US at least , has been grown in people's gardens. whenever I've found it in a farmer's market I treasure it.
Now I'm thinking about what greens mix would best substitute for it. I recently started cooking gai lan and I think that has to go in for similarly sized succulent stems.