That’s exactly what I was thinking!

Lots of soup recipes online but basically sauté smashed garlic and rosemary sprig in good olive oil, add pack of chestnuts (roughly chopped), a tin of chickpeas and water to cover. Cook for 10 mins or so, fish out rosemary, blend and season to taste.

Buy the ready-cooked vacuum packed ones, they’re a pain to roast and peel. (You can also make a really quick and easy soup with chestnuts and chickpeas.)

I like them par-boiled then fried off in butter with chestnuts.

Yuck. Although I do have a nice recipe for braised sprouts and carrots where you cook them for a really long time. The danger zone is between 9 & 20 mins when a compound has been released and before it cooks off. (See also braised cabbage.)

My mother in law seems to go for 15-20mins, hence my husband’s aversion before I introduced him to properly cooked ones!

Try slicing finely and frying, or if life’s too short roasting them. Also good raw in coleslaw. Anything but boiling for 20mins!

I thought it looked like the Canadian one, but perusing @revdaniel.bsky.social’s feed, I see they have four petals.

If I'm reading something, it's either because it's interesting, in which case summarising it would defeat the point, or because it's important, in which case I need to know what it actually says, not what a lying machine pretends it might say.

"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."

(Internally) "Is that laying it on too thick? Surely no one in the future will miss the message here"

Didn’t do 9 as too loud for me, but everything else is/was perfectly normal.

Me too. Although, I don’t know that I ‘rocked’ it, what ever that means.

Oh yes. When Bp of Monmouth he came to our student church (also a parish church) and preached a perfectly pitched sermon for the audience. And then came and ate lunch with us in the Chaplaincy, with his plate balanced on his knees, sitting on a sofa, like everyone else.

Sorry to hear you’re having a hard time. I‘m not doing too badly really (trying to focus on what I can do) but yes, mental work can be as tiring as physical things.

I regret to inform you that I have done the things today. Probably spent too long on the computer. Fingers crossed for work tomorrow…

Yeah, that’s what I understood.

Yes, I think so. Not sure how scale compares to other US cities, though. (I’m in the UK and a follower of progressive Christians and politics people who looks at US news in horror.)