Plan for rest of day

[tree_and_leaf]

(Made harder by my difficulties in, er, getting out of bed this morning.)

* go to library, return books.

* Buy wherewithall for clapshot (please note that the 'turnips' are what the English call 'swede'); buy wherewithall for cranachan. Buy second haggis, due to sudden influx of last minute guests.

* prep clapshot, make cranachan.

* get on with some of the translation work for Chaotic Publishers.

Comments

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

I didn't know clapshot was called clapshot, though looking at the recipe I'm sure I've encountered it before. Cranachan is entirely new to me, though - interesting.

[owl]

OM NOM NOM NOM cranachan.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

(please note that the 'turnips' are what the English call 'swede')

Interesting. I'd not known that swedes sometimes went under the name of turnips.

They're called rutabagas, here in the US, which is apparently the name that was given them, at least at one time, in Co. Tipperary. I don't know if the name is because of the Scandinavian or the Irish influence, or the combination of the two.

[scionofgrace.livejournal.com]

Really? I always say "turnip," and I'm in Nebraska. Maybe it's that regionalism thingy again...

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Hmm... to me, turnips and rutabagas are two different things.

Could well be a regionalism.

[scionofgrace.livejournal.com]

(please note that the 'turnips' are what the English call 'swede')

Which clears up my confusion about that line from "Last of the Time Lords" where Jack complains about "cold mashed swede," since for Americans, the word only ever means "person from Sweden," and makes you wonder just how twisted the Master really was.

Just had to say that, apparently.