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[Sirus]

That's good to hear

[Sheb]

So I made tartiflette, and though "let's make a bit more, so I'll have leftover for tomorrow". Except I apprently suck at estimating quantities, and barely ate a fifth of that tomorrow. I think me and my three flatmates are going to dine on my leftovers tonight.

[timferius]

Hmm, payday tomorrow, I think I'm going to make Nanaimo bars. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[Vector]

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[Sappho]

I decided to walk home today from the city center, as it was a mild winter's evening and I was in a good mood. I passed through the big Christmas market on Old Town Square and ooohhhhh the smells. Sausages cooked over wood fires, potatoes cut into spirals and fried on wooden skewers, cinnamon/sugar spiral pastries cooked over an open flame, svařák (mulled wine), roasted Prague ham, hot medovina (mead)...

I had just eaten, so I decided on a paper pouch of freshly roasted chestnuts. I have actually never had roasted chestnuts before and I did not know what I was in for. They are SO GOOD (though a pain in the ass to peel). I must make these myself sometime (couldn't be too complicated). On the way home, I decided to pick up a bottle of medovina (it was really expensive just for a small cup at the market but it's very common and cheap to buy at the supermarket here) and heat it up on the stove. I'm currently nibbling at the last of the chestnuts and sipping at my hot mead. Now that's what I call a lovely evening.

[scrdest]

I decided to walk home today from the city center, as it was a mild winter's evening and I was in a good mood. I passed through the big Christmas market on Old Town Square and ooohhhhh the smells. Sausages cooked over wood fires, potatoes cut into spirals and fried on wooden skewers, cinnamon/sugar spiral pastries cooked over an open flame, svařák (mulled wine), roasted Prague ham, hot medovina (mead)...

I had just eaten, so I decided on a paper pouch of freshly roasted chestnuts. I have actually never had roasted chestnuts before and I did not know what I was in for. They are SO GOOD (though a pain in the ass to peel). I must make these myself sometime (couldn't be too complicated). On the way home, I decided to pick up a bottle of medovina (it was really expensive just for a small cup at the market but it's very common and cheap to buy at the supermarket here) and heat it up on the stove. I'm currently nibbling at the last of the chestnuts and sipping at my hot mead. Now that's what I call a lovely evening.

With the mention of the trdelniki (I'm assuming that's what you meant by the pastries you mentioned), ham and potatoes, I'm getting flashbacks to summer. Is there snow there yet? I gotta see Prague in winter someday...

[Sappho]

Delicious trdelniki.... Yes, that's what I meant. There was some snow the other day, but it's all melted now. It was above freezing today, so everything is gone. There will be more, though. Prague in winter can be lovely, but the problem is always that the snow melts away too quickly, or turns into a gray dirty mess. To see the pretty snow, you need to get up and see it in the morning. : )

By the way, this medovina is kicking my ass. Alcoholic honey. That's basically what it is. Sweet boozey goodness. Mmmmmmm.

[Akura]

I should not have read Sappho's post. I am really hungry because of it.

[Sappho]

I apologize. Of course, now that I'm getting hungry, I really wish I had grabbed one of those potato spirals...

It's funny, before I realized what mead actually is, I always imagined it being something sour or bitter. Something... manly? I mean, it's what vikings and such used to drink, right? It turns out that it's basically alcoholic candy. Seriously. It's girlier than peppermint schnapps. I... I have so much less respect for all those warriors in old stories now. They were like, "I have returned from the battle and I demand a cup of hot sugary sweetness laced with alcohol!"

[Sheb]

And why are sweet thing not manly?

*Sheb goes back to manlyfully snacking on a manly bar of manly white chocolate.*

[MaximumZero]

Gotta be pretty manly to get the honey without modern beekeeping equipment.

[Sappho]

Gotta be pretty manly to get the honey without modern beekeeping equipment.

Wouldn't that have been women's work? Fall into the category of cooking, while the men were out killing each other?

[Arx]

Gotta be pretty manly to get the honey without modern beekeeping equipment.

Wouldn't that have been women's work? Fall into the category of cooking, while the men were out killing each other?

You've clearly never encountered the terror of a catapult hurling beehives.

[MaximumZero]

I'm not an expert, but in a lot of pre-medieval societies, farming was men's work and the women were relegated to housework, hence the term housewife. Beekeeping would have been a man's job.

Warriors were generally from a specific caste of people, as peasants were not allowed to train with or own weaponry.

[Helgoland]

I'm not an expert, but in a lot of pre-medieval societies, farming was men's work and the women were relegated to housework, hence the term housewife.

There's an interesting bit about semi-modern gender roles regarding gardening: The area where my family comes from has very light, sandy soil; gardening work like tending vegetables, which was a very important thing a couple of decades ago, was considered women's work. The area where I grew up has very heavy, clay-rich (and thus very, very fertile) earth: Because of this gardening work is much harder, and it is thusly considered men's work.
All this within 300 km of each other, mind you.