Last night our friend Amy came over & we made Indian food, but last week I cooked Vietnamese: Spring rolls and a crab & noodle salad. Here is picture of my plate of the Vietnamese food. (I think we got some of the Indian dishes we had last night & I’ll post those later.)
I’ve been learning to make Vietnamese food for the better part of a decade — since I came home from my first trip to Vietnam. I’m known among my friends for my spring rolls, of which I can make half a dozen kinds, but I’ve been trying to broaden my range, thus the salad. My most reliable VN dish, which I haven’t made in a while, is thit ga kho gung — chicken with ginger — a dish that uses a good deal of nuoc mam — fish sauce — which is an acquired taste for some people but which I took to right away. Hope I get to go back this summer.
here’s my thanksgiving food query. edward mycue
CARNIVORY IN THE PLANT KINGDOM
Eating during bankers hours,
during the time others are sawing wood
and the termites are eating it
hunger is first things first.
You live, learn and still and all
we knock on wood because
you’re never too young to step up to the plate
but you have to prioritize especially
if you are a vegetarian as big as a reindeer.
From the get go when you are beating
the tom-tom for dinner you don’t shilly-shally
or you’re so full of beans
(though it’s no skin off your teeth).
As for freeloaders with time passing
for anyone who knows his onions
those layabouts will soon learn
a new rite of passage
when they are deader than a doornail.
OK, plants eat animals, animals
eat plants and animals, but do
plants eat other plants?
Jeez louise, you say, it’s
screwey louie as far as the eye can see.
But all you really need to know
is that the flies get into the ointment
because if it isn’t omnivory, carnivory,
it’s herbivory and a herd of hippos.
Edward Mycue
Thanks, Ed. If fungi are plants, then, yes, plants eat plants. I can almost hear them chomping on the pine stump out by the driveway.