The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

Pyxis

michaels wrote: »

Having watched the original Mummy movie (well the Brendan Fraser one anyway) helps..'Imhotep, Imhotep...2

:rotfl: : :rotfl:

And on a higher plane, it also helps to have watched Charlton Heston's epic!

GDB2222

It is amazing to carry on a tradition of a Passover supper that would have been familiar to people 2000 years ago.

Whilst celebrating the ten plagues on the poor Egyptians, we spill a drop of wine at the mention of each one to signify our sadness at their suffering.

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

:rotfl: : :rotfl:

And on a higher plane, it also helps to have watched Charlton Heston's epic!

I take it you mean Cecil B DeMille's The Ten Commandments?

If so, it's a long time since I've seen it but one thing will always stick in my mind - the dire special effects for the parting of the Red Sea. It was so obviously water running down walls, of glass I think.
To be fair, though, it was the only method available to them at the time and probably wowed the audiences. Computers back then could just about manage 2x2=4 iterated umpteen times, CGI hadn't even been thought of let alone tried.

chris_m

Phew, that's a relief.
The other evening I went to fill my bird feeder to find something inside the tube. Thinking a small bird might have got in and got stuck I unhooked the feeder and a brown furry thing shot out, down the trellis and behind some planters before I could get a good look at it. I was somewhat concerned in case it was a small Roland, in which case I'd need to take steps to locate and deal with them.

Saw it again this morning, sitting on one of the perches happily tucking in - a rather cute looking wood mouse, so that's OK. I don't mind feeding them.

Pyxis

Yeah, wood mouses is ok!

I had some in my garden, and at one point they did start coming into the house, so I moved the bird feeder further away, and trapped the housey woodmouses in a humane trap and released them elsewhere.

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Yeah, wood mouses is ok!

Shouldn't that be "meeces"?
:rotfl:

Pyxis

Mouses, meeces, let's call the whole thing off! :rotfl:

Pyxis

Well! Would you beleeeeeeeeve it!


I have discovered something today!



Black garlic!

Has anyone ever had it?


I noticed that my veg people were stocking it, so I ordered some to try, thinking that, like so many other coloured vegetables, it would be the same as ordinary garlic but .....black.

Well, I just got it out of the fridge and it's weird! It was black (inside) but very soft and squidgy, so that I wondered what had happened to it.
Had it gone off?
I ventured a tiny taste, and it was a very subtle flavour, slightly garlicky but different.

So I've just googled it, to make sure I should eat it like that, and yes! That's how it should be!


It turns black because it is aged under special conditions of heat and humidity, which also completely changes the flavour.......

QUOTE:
In black garlic, the garlic flavour is softened such that it almost or entirely disappears depending on the length of time it was heated.

Additionally, its flavour is dependent on that of the fresh garlic that was used to make it. Garlic with a higher sugar content produces a milder, more caramel-like flavour, whereas garlic with a low sugar content produces a sharper, somewhat more acidic flavour, similar in character to tomato paste.

Burnt flavours may also be present if the garlic was heated for too long at too high a temperature or not long enough: during heating, the garlic turns black in colour well before the full extent of its sweetness is able to develop.


Black garlic is prized as a food rich in antioxidants and added to energy drinks, and in Thailand is claimed to increase the consumer's longevity. It is also used to make black garlic chocolate.
UNQUOTE

More info here.......

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_garlic

It can be used in various cooked dishes, but can also be spread on bread etc.

It just so happens that I have a ripe avocado that I was going to mash up and grill on toast, so I will try a bit spread on the toast under the avocado.

It might be nice!



I have never ever heard of it before!


Ooh! By the way, in Taoist mythology, black garlic was rumored to grant immortality.
So, if I'm still here in 100 years, you'll know why!

:think: Oh, except that you won't be here, will you?
UNLESS YOU START EATING IT TOO! :rotfl:




(I wonder what the MSE forum skin will be like in a 100years? :think:)



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chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

(I wonder what the MSE forum skin will be like in a 100years? :think:)
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I wonder how many sock-puppet names some users (not in this thread of course) will have used by then too :rotfl:

GDB2222

Cecil B. de Mille,
Much against his will,
Was persuaded to leave Moses
Out of The Wars Of The Roses.