I made the turmeric chicken soup tonight, partly because ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cattitude is under the weather and partly because I wanted to see if the Wegman's canned chick peas are an acceptable substitute for Goya. They are. Using a bit of frozen ginger root along with the powdered ginger worked well, too.
Someone mentioned on Discord a while ago that they freeze ginger root and grate it still frozen. I took that as advice and froze a piece of ginger. Today I took it out of the freezer, sawed off a small chunk, microwaved it for 15 seconds, and then peeled and chopped it.
So: Wegman's canned beans, check.
Freezing ginger root, check.
There should be enough for lunch if not dinner tomorrow; I may need to add a bit more broth to stretch it, but right now the broth:solids ratio is a bit low.
i also did some more text banking, mostly answering/following up on replies to texts other people had sent. I am quietly googling things for people, because it seems to be easier for some people to ask the stranger who said "would you like to be a poll worker" or "please vote by mail" about deadlines or what Hennepin County pays pollworkers than to track down the answers themselves. I enjoy giving people useful information, so I'm googling instead of saying "I'm a volunteer, you should ask the state election commission." The answer to the question about Hennepin County, unfortunately, is "it depends"--the pay varies not just in different parts of Minnesota, but in different parts of the county.
cattitude is under the weather and partly because I wanted to see if the Wegman's canned chick peas are an acceptable substitute for Goya. They are. Using a bit of frozen ginger root along with the powdered ginger worked well, too. Someone mentioned on Discord a while ago that they freeze ginger root and grate it still frozen. I took that as advice and froze a piece of ginger. Today I took it out of the freezer, sawed off a small chunk, microwaved it for 15 seconds, and then peeled and chopped it.
So: Wegman's canned beans, check.
Freezing ginger root, check.
There should be enough for lunch if not dinner tomorrow; I may need to add a bit more broth to stretch it, but right now the broth:solids ratio is a bit low.
i also did some more text banking, mostly answering/following up on replies to texts other people had sent. I am quietly googling things for people, because it seems to be easier for some people to ask the stranger who said "would you like to be a poll worker" or "please vote by mail" about deadlines or what Hennepin County pays pollworkers than to track down the answers themselves. I enjoy giving people useful information, so I'm googling instead of saying "I'm a volunteer, you should ask the state election commission." The answer to the question about Hennepin County, unfortunately, is "it depends"--the pay varies not just in different parts of Minnesota, but in different parts of the county.
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