Random Stuff

[lydamorehouse]

 Shawn is working until 5 pm tonight. This is her last day at work before the knee surgery (T-4 days!) and the bosses are getting their money's worth before she goes on extended leave. 

I've been working through the big list of Things To Do that she left on the piano for me. I've crossed off almost everything, including taking the air-conditioner out of the sun room window (by myself!). Today, I picked up some cookbooks that the Roseville Library had set aside for the history center. While I was out there, I drove through a Free Farmer's Market (Keystone) and I now have a small set of unidentifiable vegetables on kitchen table. I think they are turnips, but, honestly, they might be yellow beets. ID being somewhat hampered because these are not in great shape.


Image: ugly unidentifiable veggies

I did cut one open and smell it. The reason I am going with "could be yellow beets" is, in part, because the interior flesh was quite yellow.  The scent, however, was not distinctively beet (nor ringed like some of the non-red colored beets are when I buy them intentionally at regular farmer's markets), but rather slightly sweet in a way I associate with turnips. To be fair, however, I am not generally a fan of turnips and so I could be completely wrong about their smell.

Feel free to give me your best guess. 

I just got a text from Shawn. The big boss is running even later than expected, so who knows when she'll be able to come home. The thing is, she's the expert on this one thing and so they really want her there as they wrap it up. And, while they could call for advice while she's in recovery, probably you don't want her making important decisions while on OxyContin. Probably. 

The other things I need to do yet today--only one of which is on Shawn's master list--is get postcards to the mail and take the car in for a car wash. We have discovered that this is a luxury we really enjoy, having someone else regularly vacuum the schmutz from the floorboards, etc. I'll probably actually go do those once I finish writing this, if only to get them off the list. If I have to come home and do nothing for a while before turning around to pick-up Shawn that feels better to me than rushing to go get her from somewhere far away, you know? 

Tomorrow is my big GM gig. I am very excited, though a bit nervous because even though this is supposed to be a stripped-down version of D&D 5e, I feel like I need to be prepared to actually PLAY D&D 5e... which is a bit daunting, despite my zillion and a half hours of both playing the game myself and actually watching other (expert) people play it.

Right! I'm off!


UPDATE: I peeled them last night and all of you who guessed golden beets were, in fact, correct! Well done!

Comments

[naomikritzer]

Those are REALLY look like golden beets to me (and I buy a lot of golden beets in the summer.)

[pameladean]

Wow, those vegetables are a mystery. My first thought was rutabaga, honestly, but I think it has a more strong and distinctive smell? Maybe that's only after you cook it, which I've done maybe once in an obsession to make authentic Cornish pasties.

I don't drive, but I've helped wash a lot of cars, and while the outside is fun to do, I totally concur about having professionals do the inside. They are so much faster and have so many tricks. And if they do the outside too, I don't mind very much at this point.

P.

[sabotabby]

They look tasty?

[lcohen]

i have no idea what they are but i would mash them up with a little butter and salt and what are the odds that would be bad?

[minnehaha]

I'm a life-long eater and cooker of rutabagas "the golden goodness." Those are not rutabagas like I have seen. I am on Team Golden Beets.

K. [has some red beets, cooked and cold, in the fridge right now]

[minnehaha]

Perfect.

K.

[offcntr]

Or dice them, toss 'em with olive oil and fish sauce and roast them in the oven.

[rachelmanija]

Also Team Yellow Beet, as pictured in icon.

[coffeetime]

I'm also on the Yep That's A Beet Squad. Nobody's going to fool ME into eating one of those things.

[sraun]

Golden Beets was my first thought - I tend to buy any of the three colors of beets to roast.

[lydamorehouse]

Correct!

[lydamorehouse]

Correct!

[lydamorehouse]

Mmmmm, pasties. Did you ever make a perfect one?

Also, turns out all the guesses of golden beet was correct. I discovered the telltale rings on the larger ones.

[lydamorehouse]

They have been cooked and consumed!

[pameladean]

I did not! There were some tasty ones, but the right filling apparently rendered the previous really good wrapper too soggy. I could probably have tinkered with them endlessly, usually ending up with a perfectly fine dinner. But I ended up going vegan instead.

I am intrigued that smaller golden beets don't have evident rings. Fairly small red beets generally have them, in my experience, though really there are so many different cultivars now (yay) that who knows.

P.