h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Exactly Bel, which is why at some stage you should continue writing

Websailor

I rarely buy parsley these days, because it comes in bigger bunches than I can use. And I can't ever get it to grow properly indoors. But green sauce would be a good excuse to get a bunch. And the grocery store we go to now has lots of fresh sorrel in small bundles, so it'd work out fine. I'm checking out the entry again right now to make myself a shopping list.

funny you should mention this. only yesterday i talked with a friend who had picked garbage bags full of goutweed and stinging nettles and sold them for hundreds of kroner to the fanciest restaurants in copenhagen

No dandelions, Pierce?

pc, I'm racking my brains what to suggest instead of sour cream and yoghurt, but then I guess you'll know better than me what to substitute those with.

Oh, and thanks, Webbie.

There's an idea (if not prohibited by local or FDA ordinance). Buy big bunches of fresh herbs anyway, and then sell what I don't use to restaurants.

I'm also going to try to start setting them in small cups of water in the fridge- that's supposed to get another week or two out of them.

Just re-read the Frankfurter Grune Sauce entry and it is so wonderful. My mouth is watering, my stomach growling. I like Bel's writing style- it's informative, and when I'm reading to be informed, that's just what I want!

Personally, I prefer a nice mix of witty, quirky entries and factual, succinct ones. While I can appreciate that the Guide in the novels was filled with witticisms and silliness, sometimes I want to read a concisely written factual entry about a subject I don't know much about. If every h2g2 entry was droll or silly, I'd be looking elsewhere for that info.

And while I can appreciate that my contributions to h2g2 have been limited to chat threads over the last few years, just because I don't write many entries myself (I do a lot of composing documents at work and don't want to do it in my spare time), doesn't mean I'm not an avid reader or that I don't know good writing when I see it. Anyone who makes such a prolific and active contributor as Bel feel that their contributions aren't worthwhile should be ashamed.

Bel, I actually can make reasonable versions of sour cream using soymilk and vinegar, but worst case scenario the grocery store has soya versions of both yogurt and sour cream. The tricky bit will be the chopped boiled egg...

You can just leave it out. I don't know why there has to be a hard boiled egg in it, I'm sure it will taste just as well without that. (I love the hard boiled eggs in my green sauce, but I'd happily do without if I was vegetarian.)

I pick and eat sorrel as I'm walking through the fields. In cooking I've seen it only in sorrel soup my granny did once. Delicious. We were wild camping in the west of Ireland, and there was loads of sorrel around. Delicious.

TRiG.

I don't recall ever tasting it before. If I did, I didn't know it was there. I'm really looking for to it now!

Does this sort of sorrel grow in the states? My mom tells of eating wild "sheep sorrel" in the woods by her home when she was a child. However, no plant or picture in an Herb book seems to satisfy her as being the right plant. I'm still searching.
(Mind you, mom was born with horrible eyesight. Maybe she never really knew what it looked like.)

There you go, hstwrd:

http://images.google.de/images?hl=de&q=sauerampfer&btnG=Bilder-Suche&gbv=2&aq=f&oq=

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, sauerampfer

...sah niemals einen Dampfer. Armer Sauerampfer (Ringelnatz, if memory serves me right).

...and never saw a steamship. Poor sorrel.

Der Architekt jedoch entfloh

(But the architect ran away)

ah, ringelnatz

our english oriented friends should know that ringelnatz is to us what a combination of keats, yeats and shelley would be to them

provided you throw in coleridge too, of course

Not to forget a pinch of Ogden Nash

wha'? they guy from crosby, stills and nash

oh yeah, he really is a brit, isn't he?

I have, once or twice, eaten Lords and Ladies instead of sorrel. Not a happy mistake. Water doesn't remove the taste. Milk is better.

TRiG.

There once were two ants in Westphalia
Who wanted to go to Australia.
But cursing their feet
In a Belgian street
They gave up the trip as a failya.

Ringelnatz

- see Napkinsand thread.