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Post by Prince Hal on May 26, 2022 15:45:43 GMT -5
Curry agouti. Looks soooooo tasty. Another in a series that shows why photographing food is an art in itself.
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Post by tartanphantom on May 26, 2022 15:47:56 GMT -5
Truthfully, I've never eaten agouti, but I have partaken of its distant cousin, nutria. Those actually are good eatin'.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 26, 2022 15:55:26 GMT -5
I'm a pretty darn adventurous eater. I've eaten snake. I've eaten bear and moose. There aren't a lot of things that I won't try. But I really hate rodents.
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Post by tartanphantom on May 26, 2022 16:00:03 GMT -5
I'm a pretty darn adventurous eater. I've eaten snake. I've eaten bear and moose. There aren't a lot of things that I won't try. But I really hate rodents.
I've lost track of how many times I've had squirrel and rabbit (although rabbit is technically not a rodent).
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Post by Prince Hal on May 26, 2022 16:33:05 GMT -5
I'm a pretty darn adventurous eater. I've eaten snake. I've eaten bear and moose. There aren't a lot of things that I won't try. But I really hate rodents.
I've lost track of how many times I've had squirrel and rabbit (although rabbit is technically not a rodent).
Related to agoutis. No wonder you loved it...
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Post by impulse on May 26, 2022 16:35:23 GMT -5
I've had rabbit stew once. It tasted fine, but I couldn't get over the squick factor.
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 26, 2022 18:21:41 GMT -5
Rabbit's fine - there was never a squick factor for me like there might be for squirrel or possum. We used to raise them for a few years when I was a kid, so I got used having the home-grown meat (really good not just in stews, but also sauteed in a sauce or roasted). I certainly preferred it to, say, venison.
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Post by tartanphantom on May 26, 2022 18:51:47 GMT -5
Rabbit's fine - there was never a squick factor for me like there might be for squirrel or possum. We used to raise them for a few years when I was a kid, so I got used having the home-grown meat (really good not just in stews, but also sauteed in a sauce or roasted). I certainly preferred it to, say, venison.
Possum is generally nasty to prepare and eat, and not very palatable to me unless it were an actual matter of survival.
On the other hand, Venison (deer and elk) is probably my favorite red meat. I prefer it to beef by a long shot.
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Post by Mormel on May 27, 2022 3:01:33 GMT -5
I'm listening to songs from the 1930s, and 'Little Girl' as performed by Joe Venuti comes on and all I can think about is that Chip 'n' Dale short in which they're vying for the attention of this girl chipmunk Clarice (it ends with the 3 chipmunks performing the song together)
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Post by berkley on May 27, 2022 4:59:26 GMT -5
I've only had deer once or twice - there aren't any where I grew up, the island of Nfld. We have caribou, native to the island, and moose, which were introduced on purpose to attract hunters as a tourist trade back around 1900, I think it was, without looking it up. Moose hunting is a big thing there and although no one in our immediate family were hunters we'd always get some from someone or other, so I used to eat it every year growing up. Even after I moved away I'd often get some when I went home or my mother would send some up to me in mason jars - it was considered quite a treat.
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Post by The Captain on May 27, 2022 6:19:39 GMT -5
Had an awesome experience last night. My wife and I will be celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary next month, and as she is one of the all-time best when it comes to giving gifts (I, on the other hand, am not), I knew I was in for something special this year.
So last week, she presented me with two tickets for “An Evening with Neil Gaiman”. He’s been on a month-long reading tour here in the US, and Pittsburgh was the last stop on the tour. It was held at the Carnegie Music Hall, part of the Carnegie Museum in the Oakland neighborhood of the city, nestled between the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie-Mellon University.
After a delicious dinner of authentic Middle Eastern fare from a little restaurant in our Squirrel Hill neighborhood (site of that horrific synagogue shooting recently), we made our way to the venue. There was a little trouble getting in (the folks running the event for the site underestimated the draw and were ill-prepared to handle the crush of folks waiting for Will-Call), the event started about 45 minutes past the scheduled time.
Mr. Gaiman came out to the stage, spoke about what he was going to do, then got down to it. Questions had been submitted upfront, so he read and answered about five of them, then read a short story, then five more questions, another reading, and so on for about 90-100 minutes.
One piece he read that he said would never be published was a poem about Batman, of all topics, that he wrote the night that Neal Adams passed. It detailed his personal journey with the character across the various stages of his life, from young child to teen to adult. It was really interesting to hear what the character, so completely mainstream, means to a man who seems to lurk around the edges of that same realm.
We used to go to events like this before the girls were born, having seen folks like David Sedaris and Ira Glass, but this was the first one in many years. It was a long night and a late night, but it was well worth it to spend an evening in the presence of one of my favorite writers.
She wins, as always.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 27, 2022 6:22:58 GMT -5
Imgur will not let you access their site on a mobile device anymore. You HAVE to use their app I disagree. In Chrome, and Firefox, you may have to set your browser to "request desktop site" from the browser dropdown menu controls, but it works from there.
Also works in Safari--
All three of these were accessed within the last 15 minutes on my iPad--
Apple Safari
Google Chrome--
and Firefox--
It's really not difficult. If your browser defaults to the mobile version of the page, just make it load the desktop version. If you get the mobile version of the page, it WILL tell you to get the app, but the desktop version will always load.
Also works on my Android phone with both Chrome and Firefox.
I tried everything. Imgur will not allow the desktop version on a tablet or iPhone. Does anyone use another image hosting site that's free ?
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2022 6:24:11 GMT -5
Woke up this morning craving an old childhood favorite...when I was a little kid in the New York City area, we'd get local ads for Carvel ice cream. The announcer was this gravel voiced "3 packs a day" sounding older gentleman, and when he talked about ordering a "Fudgie the Whale" ice cream cake for my next birthday, to me it was almost like an old family member reminding you to do something rather than a sales pitch. I wish I was in the area and could still order one!
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2022 6:27:28 GMT -5
Had an awesome experience last night. My wife and I will be celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary next month, and as she is one of the all-time best when it comes to giving gifts (I, on the other hand, am not), I knew I was in for something special this year. So last week, she presented me with two tickets for “An Evening with Neil Gaiman”. He’s been on a month-long reading tour here in the US, and Pittsburgh was the last stop on the tour. It was held at the Carnegie Music Hall, part of the Carnegie Museum in the Oakland neighborhood of the city, nestled between the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie-Mellon University. After a delicious dinner of authentic Middle Eastern fare from a little restaurant in our Squirrel Hill neighborhood (site of that horrific synagogue shooting recently), we made our way to the venue. There was a little trouble getting in (the folks running the event for the site underestimated the draw and were ill-prepared to handle the crush of folks waiting for Will-Call), the event started about 45 minutes past the scheduled time. Mr. Gaiman came out to the stage, spoke about what he was going to do, then got down to it. Questions had been submitted upfront, so he read and answered about five of them, then read a short story, then five more questions, another reading, and so on for about 90-100 minutes. One piece he read that he said would never be published was a poem about Batman, of all topics, that he wrote the night that Neal Adams passed. It detailed his personal journey with the character across the various stages of his life, from young child to teen to adult. It was really interesting to hear what the character, so completely mainstream, means to a man who seems to lurk around the edges of that same realm. We used to go to events like this before the girls were born, having seen folks like David Sedaris and Ira Glass, but this was the first one in many years. It was a long night and a late night, but it was well worth it to spend an evening in the presence of one of my favorite writers. She wins, as always. Congratulations on the anniversary milestone, sounds like it was an amazing way to celebrate!
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Post by tartanphantom on May 27, 2022 8:30:16 GMT -5
I tried everything. Imgur will not allow the desktop version on a tablet or iPhone. Does anyone use another image hosting site that's free ? Give me a call and I'll walk you through it.
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