Christian holidays are mostly proxies for natural holidays. As in, winter solstice, spring equinox, so on.

I pretty much hate holidays. Places are either closed all day, close early, or are packed, and a holiday does nothing for me at all.

I sub spinach for lettuce often on sandwiches. Same with other baby greens like chard, or even watercress or arugula.

I love roasted fresh green beans, but the canned have their place. It’s amazing I never even had fresh green beans until I cooked them myself in my 20s… always frozen or canned until then. Of course the texture of canned is way softer. It makes them appropriate for different uses, like I’d rather have canned in a 3 bean salad. Kind of a whole different vegetable. As far as a spinach, I don’t see any reason to use frozen and the idea of canned spinach fills me with disquiet.

cat diets are confusing to me. Of course I realize they primarily need protein, but I don’t really know how much carbs or fiber they can eat.

It’s shocking what goes on

Maybe I’ll get a bottle of clam juice and some eggplant and find out

The store is a carniceria, so they have a lot of Central American stuff

I don’t really like the idea of diving in the ocean, retrieving some weird bug from the sea floor and squeezing it into my drink. Plus the ingredients are far inferior to V8.

Canned is really different than fresh or frozen. They’re a lot softer, texture-wise. It’s good with some things and not as good with others. I love them with mashed potatoes or even just with hot sauce out of the can.

It’s adventurous, but I like the juice.