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1. Today I applied for healthcare from the state of Massachusetts. Because my current insurance is no longer affordable, not very helpful to me, and about to be terminated regardless at the end of March. Wish me luck.

2. There's a new issue of The Cascadia Subduction Zone, meaning the issue six months previous is now freely available online. It contains my poems "Censorship" (for Cato and Adresteia) and "The Marriage He Saw Beneath the Shade" (for Arthur Machen and ashlyme). Why don't I own Tanith Lee's Space Is Just a Starry Night?

3. Does anyone have a trusted recipe for a kind of sorrel borscht called schav or scharv? I saw it last night on a menu online and remembered that my grandfather had asked me to make it for him, very late in his life. I didn't quite understand about the sorrel. He kept saying "green borscht" and I was racking my brain trying to reverse-engineer borscht from dark leafy greens like kale or spinach and of course that wasn't correct. We're past both his birthday and yahrzeit at this point in the year, but I could still learn.

4. Charlie Chaplin wrote a novel. I'll have to get a copy of that.

5. Stone Telling hath a blog! (I just finished answering a questionnaire for it.) Also a Patreon page. You should donate. A picture of Dashing Mippo says so.

The bread pudding is great when reheated, too.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I do have a recipe for sorrel soup, courtesy of the Silver Palate cookbook, a very good recipe. I don't have at my fingertips, but when I go back into the kitchen, I'll get it and send it to you. I grow sorrel, but it's all under snow right now….

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I don't have at my fingertips, but when I go back into the kitchen, I'll get it and send it to you.

Thank you!

Is sorrel easy to grow? We don't have a garden, but I still ask.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yes very!

I grew French sorrel, but meanwhile there's a weed, sheep sorrel, that grows free of charge, and I often supplement with that. French sorrel has nice big leaves, whereas sheep sorrel's are rather smaller, but the flavor is the same.

(I did get into the kitchen, but then I got distracted. Right now I'm going to make some pea soup, and I'll take down the other cookbook to remind me to type the recipe into an email)

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I grew French sorrel, but meanwhile there's a weed, sheep sorrel, that grows free of charge, and I often supplement with that. French sorrel has nice big leaves, whereas sheep sorrel's are rather smaller, but the flavor is the same.

Cool! Hm. Maybe the farmer's market will sell it.

The recipe came through. Thank you very much!