I have never been so happy to have risen before noon

[sovay]

I had a really nice day meeting skygiants at the MFA at noon for a screening of Peter Miller's Projections of America (2015) on the last day of the Boston Jewish Film Festival, curling up on the couch in the afternoon to read Zen Cho's Sorcerer to the Crown (2015)—highly recommended—and then making dinner with rushthatspeaks in time to eat with gaudior and B., but I have slept three to four hours a night since Thursday and the part of my brain that generates critical response appears to have temporarily closed down. It's not that I can't think of anything to say: I think it's going to take me hours to say it. On that level of sentience, I should finish my work and sleep instead.

Zingerman's report of the day: goat's milk gouda plus moutarde violette equals a ridiculously tasty sandwich. I don't know why people eat mustard that isn't made with grape must. If it's got horseradish in it, that's different. Otherwise I think I have a new favorite condiment.

Comments

[rosefox]

Mmmmmmm grape must.

[sovay]

Mmmmmmm grape must.

I'm not sure I'd ever had it before, in anything! I have an ambivalent relationship with grapes: I like the fresh fruit fine (I really like Concord grapes, sour as they are; we had an arbor in the back yard when I was growing up), but I don't like grape juice, grape jelly, grape candies etc.; I don't like wines unless they are very dark reds. As far as I can tell, grape must has all the sweet fruit flavor without any of the sickliness I associate with grape flavoring and then all the complicated dark savor that must come from the skins and seeds and the rest of the must. I have seen recipies online for cookies or other baked goods sweetened with grape must. I want to try these.

[rosefox]

Most "grape-flavored" things are really purple-flavored. I can't stand purple flavoring. Grapes, on the other hand, are delicious.

I haven't had mustard with grape must in ages and now I have no idea why. Should fix that.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

This. Purple is a terrible flavor (red, pink, blue and the others have largely fallen out with me in adulthood, with the solely-because-of-addiction exception of the yellow-green of Mountain Dew), but grapes are some of my favorite fruit. Especially grapes you find by accident in the forest.