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Nov. 23rd, 2004 09:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plumtreeblossomYou know when you forfeit Good Thing A for hands-down Gooder Thing B, only to rememember at the 11th hour that Good Thing A had a component you're kicking yourself for not factoring into the decision.
I blew off Thanksgiving and the potluck friends dinner I've been going to for 7 years to spend the week in Edinburgh, and it's only just now that I'm (privately) wailing "Oh no!!!" to the fact that this Thursday for me will not include green bean casserole.
I like turkey, I like mashed potatoes... but Green Bean Casserole is an annual passion, my one lingering culinary link to my Ohio birth. The dish doesn't work any time of the year other than Thanksgiving - I've tried and failed (ask anyone at the Passover potluck about 9 years ago, which mercifully also included a poorly planned Hell's Buffet of out-of-season foods). Still, I want it... bubbling all mushroomy in the oven with crispy French onions browning on top...
But I'm going to be in the land of haggis and blood pudding.
Fine then, the backpacker's hotel I'm staying at has a big communal kitchen, surely there's canned mushroom soup in Scotland, and the rest I'll improvise. Take my gleeful fill and make enough extra for the other international guests to try it.
Natto, haggis, tripe, flash seared locusts, and string bean casserole. Let's share!
I blew off Thanksgiving and the potluck friends dinner I've been going to for 7 years to spend the week in Edinburgh, and it's only just now that I'm (privately) wailing "Oh no!!!" to the fact that this Thursday for me will not include green bean casserole.
I like turkey, I like mashed potatoes... but Green Bean Casserole is an annual passion, my one lingering culinary link to my Ohio birth. The dish doesn't work any time of the year other than Thanksgiving - I've tried and failed (ask anyone at the Passover potluck about 9 years ago, which mercifully also included a poorly planned Hell's Buffet of out-of-season foods). Still, I want it... bubbling all mushroomy in the oven with crispy French onions browning on top...
But I'm going to be in the land of haggis and blood pudding.
Fine then, the backpacker's hotel I'm staying at has a big communal kitchen, surely there's canned mushroom soup in Scotland, and the rest I'll improvise. Take my gleeful fill and make enough extra for the other international guests to try it.
Natto, haggis, tripe, flash seared locusts, and string bean casserole. Let's share!