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ELC Day 16: Disappointment
After our success yesterday with dinner, and faced with a dwindling selection of vegetables in the fridge, I decided to make speckled limas, roasted turnips, and braised turnip greens for tonight’s meal. I suppose after so many good meals it shouldn’t be a surprise to have one finally turn out bland, bitter, and unappetizing. The limas tasted like dirt, so I had to keep cooking them and adding salt and plenty of butter until they were edible. The turnips…well, I just don’t like turnips very much, though I’ll tolerate a few if they’re roasted along with other veggies. Too bitter. And turnip greens, it stands to follow, are more bitter also. And I should have been more careful about stemming them. The only way I could make my meal palatable was to wash it down with an Abita Amber.