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[which_chick]

I was out and about and visiting today. Plus: Elk are tasty!



I had brunch with mom at the Gateway. She delivered unto me a head-sized lump of obsidian and tools and instructions for fucking it up in the process of trying to make stone tools. (I bet cavemen didn't have nice metal tools with which to make their stone tools, but what the hell. I'll take what I can get.) I also got the Al Gore Movie about the environment, which I am planning to watch here directly. (Cousin Heather wants to borrow it when I'm done, and then it gets mailed off to aunt Charlotte in Alabama, where they do not so much have environment as they have humidity.) In exchange, I gave mom bluegrass and tradtional mountain songs and, well, Sean Paul. And Fergie. And Akon. (Mom needs exposure to these things.)

Then I visited grandma and Heather. Grandma enjoyed the Duncan Seashore Adventure book that mom and I made. She did not complain about the lack of narrative structure in the captions. Heather thought that was a really good picture of the Atlantic, too. We had a lovely visit and I got half a loaf of cinnamon bread to take home with me from the visiting. (Home-made cinnamon bread, mind, that Heather made.)

Then I stopped at Tash's house to discuss horse website things. That went pretty well and I'm fairly certain we can get something up and running without spending a fortune. Yay! I was going to go home, but they were having elk (yes, real elk, probably somebody shot it) for dinner. It smelled pretty good and since I'd never eaten elk before, I was like "Okay." The elk thing in question was some involved stew-like affair with currant jam and cranberries and mushrooms and juniper berries and burgundy and it was totally OMG tastylicious. I had two helpings. Elk, just so that you know, are tasty. They're very tasty. While they look like great big deer, they taste a lot better than deer. If you are ever offered a free meal of elk, eat the elk. It is yummy.

Comments

[sara-merry99.livejournal.com]

Abner and I have had elk before. Abner's immediate response was "Who knew that elk were made to be eaten?" :)

There's some tasty meat on an elk. :)

[electroweak.livejournal.com]

Of course they're edible! They're made of meat (http://youtube.com/watch?v=gaFZTAOb7IE).

[not-your-real.livejournal.com]

I totally look forward to the tool-knapping fu.

[cousin-sue.livejournal.com]

did you get the recipe for the stew?

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

I didn't get it because I do not have a source for elk meats. A quick google points up the fact that while elk are tastylicious, they are also in no way cheap eats.

[gwangi.livejournal.com]

Too bad you don't know anybody who regularly hunts elk in Montana. Then you could try and convince them to give you some meat next time they shoot one.

OH, WAIT.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

*snark* You volunteering, Oh Shooter Of The Mighty Wapiti? Because I could so drive out there with a cooler and some dry ice if there were elk steaks in it for me...

[not-your-real.livejournal.com]

Eric brought home some sort of Alaska-meat, elk or caribou, from his coworker whose husband shot it earlier this month. Score!