While resting, plotting.

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I have a while to go before the chicken cools.  I suppose the last load of laundry is done, or will be soon.  Yeah, I'll do that right away.  Three loads down is fantastic.  As for dishes?  Those can wait until the beans are done.  Which... will be a goodly while.  Maybe even after all else, a nap, and yeah... a while.  Waiting is the worst part, really.  I'll survive.

As I mentioned, plotting.  What is my next big caper?  No, not that caper... nothing pickled about it.  I think?  Ah, right.  A terrine, or pate... mostly the same thing.  Yeah.  I have been thinking on these for... many years.  Fooling with such is perhaps not the most practical of things.  They have bitten more than a few, and not just to mild illness.  Though I think people would be absolutely amazed at how unclean some Europeans, hired help, and restaurant folks can be, more so in the past though it comes and goes.  Teaching cheap uneducated help, from third world countries, who know nothing about hygiene, to even wash their hands after using the facilities, is... difficult.  Don't even go there.  Before touching food, and after certain things, even as I am being cautious with water, I wash.  I just am very careful to dry well, and not wash when not needed.

Still, it is a bit of a risky food.  And, not all pates are all that tasty, unless you were raised to them.  Some of the pork ones are extremely sharp that way.  Too sharp for my tastes.  As well, sometimes the liver flavor is a bit much.  Though there are many forms, many types of meats and other ingredients, which can be used, including chicken and duck.  I've not heard of a beef terrine, if I am not an expert.

Yes, that is my next experiment.  When?  Oh, I don't know.  Probably not for a month or two.  And, really, I would like to make several.  A chicken one, or two, and a duck one, to be sure.  Though I don't know about some of the ingredients, such as truffles.  I'm not sure if they are even available these days, or affordable if available.  Gnarly expensive last time I looked.  I can't remember if they are more a spring or fall item, though I thought one... maybe both of those, were better seasons for them?  As well, each season is it's own.  If many are found, super.  If not, the prices go even higher.  I'll bet they have found a way to crop them, but they would never tell.  Much as the real price of diamonds would be pennies on the dollar if the real supply was understood.  Still, it's a sellers market, I guess.

Oh, right, on to laundry and... some other things?  Checking on the confit, perhaps setting dishes and such up for washing for when I do get to it.  Yeah.  Good morning and good day.

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There are indeed truffles available.  Steep, spooky, though possibly doable.  Not sure if they will be available when I am ready though.  Might have to wait a year.  Could always do various other types to practice.  Hobby.  How much do you spend just getting to where you are going?  Now, think how much you could spend on food if you couldn't really travel.  If I ate like this daily?  Yeah, no.  I can't eat like this more than every other month, max.  Once.  Basically how people do holidays, only I am a family of one.