redbird: closeup of me drinking tea, in a friend's kitchen (Default)
( Dec. 8th, 2020 04:55 pm)
My mother called a few hours ago to tell me that she will be getting the COVID-19 vaccine on Friday. They offered it to her because she's over 80 and will be at the clinic for something else, so they don't have to figure out how to get it to her, or ask her to make an extra trip. And because she lives in London, where they started vaccinating people a day or two ago.

Meanwhile, I am texting people on behalf of the Michigan department of health and human services, urging them to download a COVID exposure notification app. Which I can't do, because Massachusetts doesn't have one yet. Time to yell at the governor, maybe. (This isn't the only thing it would be worth yelling at him about, but I have to start somewhere. Except they don't even offer to take messages outside 9-5 business hours. Email, I guess. Feh.)
redbird: closeup of me drinking tea, in a friend's kitchen (Default)
( Dec. 8th, 2020 08:49 pm)
I ordered a koginut squash from What's Good because it's a variety I hadn't even heard of.

[personal profile] cattitude cooked this for dinner tonight. When he sliced it open, it looked like a very orange acorn squash. He prepared it the way we usually cook squash: halved, baked cut side down, and then when it's almost ready, take it out of the oven, turn it over. put in butter and maple syrup, and bake for a couple of minutes before taking it out of the oven again and serving it.

We both liked it: the flavor is similar to acorn squash but a bit more intense. It's a little stringier (though still not very stringy), and Cattitude notes that the prep was a bit more work, in scraping out the seeds and other stringy bits from the cavity.

We will probably get more of these, if the opportunity presents itself.
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