Burns Night
Jan. 26th, 2022 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcI may be far from Scotland but I lived there for long enough that I like to mark Burns Night, principally with food. Cabbage isn't exactly uncommon in Scots cuisine, I had already cooked a whole one at lunchtime though. I get at least four portions out of a cabbage. A couple of portions, I mixed with black pepper, egg, and fried baked potato. The other portions, I mixed with garlic and onion and will figure other seasoning when I use them. At lunchtime, I also discovered that Progresso make a properly spicy jambalaya. Sure, the label on the can said that it was spicy but, for something aimed at mainstream Westerners, it's nice to find that they did actually deliver.
Anyhow, after work, for the main event, I placed an online food order for haggis, neeps and tatties, among other things, and drove into downtown Knoxville to pick them up. On the way, I remembered how much I loved when I first moved to Columbus, Ohio, and lived in the city itself, very near an interstate exit, which put plenty close at hand. I miss being right amid all that now. Others on the street were upset at all the traffic but I wondered what they expected living so near an exit. Here, I-40 takes me right downtown and has all manner of other useful exits, also there is (scarce) free parking after 18h. The radio played me Billy Joel, Fleetwood Mac, etc., most agreeable. Once I arrived back home, on getting out of the car I was greeted by an eyeful of Orion and the Pleiades.
The food did not look grand and was not cheap but was rather good, it hit the spot. I don't know how authentic the haggis might be but it looked correct and tasted fine. I much like certain haggis and black pudding, and am not much of a fan of some others, so hitting on a haggis I liked was agreeable indeed. Naturally, I supplemented the meal with a drop of Glenfiddich.
Burns Night unfortunately coincided with salad-making night for work lunches so, with the earlier cabbage-and-friends portions too, I had a lot of washing up waiting when all was said and done. Having also lost time with the trip to Knoxville, unusually I left a fair bit of washing up over for today, at least I am now caught up again. Next year I may plan better.
Anyhow, after work, for the main event, I placed an online food order for haggis, neeps and tatties, among other things, and drove into downtown Knoxville to pick them up. On the way, I remembered how much I loved when I first moved to Columbus, Ohio, and lived in the city itself, very near an interstate exit, which put plenty close at hand. I miss being right amid all that now. Others on the street were upset at all the traffic but I wondered what they expected living so near an exit. Here, I-40 takes me right downtown and has all manner of other useful exits, also there is (scarce) free parking after 18h. The radio played me Billy Joel, Fleetwood Mac, etc., most agreeable. Once I arrived back home, on getting out of the car I was greeted by an eyeful of Orion and the Pleiades.
The food did not look grand and was not cheap but was rather good, it hit the spot. I don't know how authentic the haggis might be but it looked correct and tasted fine. I much like certain haggis and black pudding, and am not much of a fan of some others, so hitting on a haggis I liked was agreeable indeed. Naturally, I supplemented the meal with a drop of Glenfiddich.
Burns Night unfortunately coincided with salad-making night for work lunches so, with the earlier cabbage-and-friends portions too, I had a lot of washing up waiting when all was said and done. Having also lost time with the trip to Knoxville, unusually I left a fair bit of washing up over for today, at least I am now caught up again. Next year I may plan better.
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Date: 2022-01-27 07:19 pm (UTC)I think my wife was born in Dayton, most of her sibs were though some were born in Florida. Family moved to Oberlin when she was young. Her parents and the next oldest sib were living there when we married. We honeymooned on an island on Lake Eerie called Put-In Bay, that was pretty cool, then on our last day as we headed back to Oberlin we went to Ceder Point Amusement Park and rode all the wood roller coasters! There were pretty much no lines for them: everyone was queued to ride the latest and greatest. Their loss. I'll have to check out the Dayton air museum one of these days. I know of it, never been there. I've been to the Strategic Air Command museum outside Lincoln, Nebraska twice: they have an SR-71 Blackbird, a U-2 spy plane, and also a Vulcan bomber! I also recommend the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona. The space part is because they operate a Titan missile museum about half an hour south of town. Here's my pix from my visit to the SAC museum six years ago:http://www.waynewestphotography.com/gallery/index.php?/category/18