Happiness from folkmew, and other goodnesses and amusements for the day.

[kniteracy]

Yesterday, we had a visit from the postman at something like 8:00 in the morning. Yes, on a Saturday. filceolaire was more dressed than I was, so he ran down to retrieve-- a package from folkmew, which managed to get here from the US in only five days!

It contained:

Q-tips (I have plenty of these now-- I think I can safely say I'm stocked up through and probably beyond Christmas!);

Maple Flavour! We are already looking for more fun recipes to use that in;

Peanut Sauce Mix! We had Thai chicken tonight;

Yummy-looking ice cream recipes, which we have stashed in the ice cream recipe book that filceolaire picked up last week.

I also had a package slip last week that might mean bunrab's package has arrived, as well. Tomorrow's the day to check that out, I think.

Today, I upgraded my Mac to OS10.3, which was easy even if it did take a long time.

mokatiki and pola_bear took filceolaire out for Father's Day, and they came back with presents for everybody, including a beautiful skirt for me. I only wish I hadn't been so grumpy about the heat and the iPod and everything else, because I did not gush over it appropriately. Please consider yourselves duly gushed.

Alas, the new Coke Zero is not made with Splenda, as I'd hoped. It appears to be attempting (successfully) to simulate the taste of flat off-brand "Cola," and it lists "caffeine" as a flavour. I am not making this up.

And, while we were all having dinner (Thai chicken!), I got a call from Glen Cronkhite in California, who says my harp case will be ready by the end of June! Hooray!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

next time you need maple, see if you can get somebody from New England to send you some Grade B syrup. (Grade A is the least flavorful; Grade C is more like molasses.)

Yay for harp cases!

[folkmew.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, well I could certainly send her Grade B as well (we use Grade A Dark Amber by choice). However, she specifically once mentioned "or maple extract which apparently exists but I've never seen it" in some recipe or other. Since Green Mountain Flavours of VT makes real maple extract (made from real maple) I sent her some. :-)

[mdlbear]

(that comment about maple syrup grades was me, not logged in after a reboot)

[telynor.livejournal.com]

Well, all right-- but the two things would be used to completely diffferent ends in my kitchen. :)

[mdlbear]

True. B is what we use everyday when we can get it; we don't have much use for C.

[folkmew.livejournal.com]

Perhaps this is a Vermont thing - but Grade A is not necessarily the least flavorful. In Vermont we have Grade A Light, Grade A Medium and Grade A Dark Amber. Grade A Dark is the darkest grade that is typically used for regular eating. And it is what we prefer. Grade B is typically considered cooking grade. It's good but we are quite happy with A/Dark. If you ever visit us in VT you can do a side by side taste testing at Dakin Farms (http://www.dakinfarm.com/Default.aspx)
Check here for info on grades:
http://www.vermontmaple.org/Grades.html

[mdlbear]

Hmm; I don't remember seeing A/Dark outside of New England, but I'll keep an eye out. We can get B here in the wilds of California. When I was growing up in CT, 40-odd years ago, I wasn't doing much cooking.

[mdlbear]

... and now you've made me go all nostalgic.

[silme.livejournal.com]

And I still have the Q-tips I picked up for you when I was in the States last month!