Mundanities (a discipline entry)

[beetiger]

sythyry cooked me one of my favorite dishes last night, a concoction which goes by the local name "Dread Potatoes". It's potatoes and zucchini, spiced with whole mustard and cumin and turmeric till it's a nice festive yellow-brown. It's good to eat hot or cold, and it reminds me of the early days of our relationship, packed in lunchboxes on trains on the way to and from Boston, eaten in the station in Washington, DC on the way to what may or may not have been some political action, I don't remember. I only remember the potatoes.

I rewarded him by promptly falling asleep. I think I feel somewhat better now.

This morning, I had trouble pulling out of my garage, scraping the side of my car against the side of the door a bit. I really am not sure how I manage to drive at all with such a hideously defective spatial sense as I have. A truck in front of me on Route 84 kept spitting plastic bags at me for a mile or two, turning someone's noble attempts at recycling into highway garbage yet again. And although the giant CD of music lediva gave me for a Valentine has 144 selections on it, my random shuffler seems to have decided that I really, really need to listen to Psychoactive Summer a lot, and keeps choosing it.

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Dread Potatoes

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

The name "Dread Potatoes" isn't entirely frivolous. (Unlike "The Tuna Salad of Doom" which I made a lot as an undergrad -- tuna salad extended with grated carrots and peas, 'cause that's what we had around at the time. It was actually pretty good.)

The original name of "Dread Potatoes" is Sookhe Aloo, which
means "Dry Potatoes". (I suppose there's some
proto-Indo-European action there -- sookhe sounds like
French 'sec' to me.) We added zucchini to make it lighter,
and that made it dreader, I guess.

Re: Dread Potatoes

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

It's a vastly better name than that of the tuna-pasta salad that one of my oldest friends makes: "Beige"

[lediva.livejournal.com]

my random shuffler seems to have decided that I really, really need to listen to Psychoactive Summer a lot, and keeps choosing it.

Is this a good thing? :)

And although this would probably be at least as well-served in an E-mail, I'm very curious to know... are there any songs on that disc that you didn't know before that you find yourself really liking now, regardless of any connection to me?