The Ciel Show for Wednesday, January 31, 2018

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Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Faux meat

Charlie and I tried this new product, Beyond Meat--it's a plant-sourced meat substitute that tries to be very meat-like in texture and flavor. It tries... it still isn't meat or enough like meat to be mistaken for meat, but it's okay for what it is. We just cooked up the two quarter-lb burgers and did the standard ketchup/mustard thing on buns. Possibly it would be more convincing in something more highly seasoned--tacos, for instance. It doesn't smell enough like real meat. It is also rather... Sign in to see full entry.

Frustrations

I have installed a new photo editor, but have not yet sorted out how to save an edited photo to share it. So these cloudy skies are not as dramatic as I'd like to show them, but perhaps they convey the sense of strangeness we've been seeing so much of lately. Monday, driving up to Denver, there were clouds that looked so untextured, they were like cartoon clouds, then later when I was able to stop driving and take these photos, they were overlapping and going all laminar in some places.... Sign in to see full entry.

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