Lo, I am mighty

Perhaps too mighty, based on the state of my right shoulder. But we had duck egg drop soup for supper tonight: the carcass of last night's Chinese roast duck, simmered with carrots and celery and an onion and the usual spices, including more than the usual amount of ginger. Egg drop soup because there was very little meat left on the duck, and I wanted to thicken it and add a little protein. It was good. Two out of two cats agreed with me.

I also now have duck stock in the freezer to cook with, and I clarified a couple of ounces of duck fat, ditto.

The "perhaps too mighty" isn't from soup making, it's from dyeing three short-sleeved silk shirts purple. One of those is for adrian_turtle, the other two for me. (I washed the remaining two white shirts, and will either use them as white shirts or dye them blue. papersky, how do you feel about light-weight short-sleeved shirts for summer?) The "easy" method of dyeing cotton or silk involves a fair amount of stirring of dye-soaked shirts in a bucket of water-and-dye (and chemicals).

Lo, I am mighty

Perhaps too mighty, based on the state of my right shoulder. But we had duck egg drop soup for supper tonight: the carcass of last night's Chinese roast duck, simmered with carrots and celery and an onion and the usual spices, including more than the usual amount of ginger. Egg drop soup because there was very little meat left on the duck, and I wanted to thicken it and add a little protein. It was good. Two out of two cats agreed with me.

I also now have duck stock in the freezer to cook with, and I clarified a couple of ounces of duck fat, ditto.

The "perhaps too mighty" isn't from soup making, it's from dyeing three short-sleeved silk shirts purple. One of those is for adrian_turtle, the other two for me. (I washed the remaining two white shirts, and will either use them as white shirts or dye them blue. papersky, how do you feel about light-weight short-sleeved shirts for summer?) The "easy" method of dyeing cotton or silk involves a fair amount of stirring of dye-soaked shirts in a bucket of water-and-dye (and chemicals).