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strathearnrose

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EllieK , to vegan group
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Okay, plant cooks, I need your help, please!
I am getting overwhelmed with garlic scapes (this is just today's!). Chopping a couple up each day on our salads isn't getting through them fast enough.
Has anyone got any ideas, recipes etc? Plant based only, please.

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strathearnrose ,
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@EllieK @wfpb @vegan

List of ingredients on the jar of Wild Garlic Jelly

ergative , to bookstodon group
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I'm reading through the Clarke Award nominees, and I'm getting very tired of all the wallowing in dystopian futures that have been constructed solely to indict the trajectory of the present.

Like, I get it, SF is and has always been political. And that's fine! But can we please have a STORY as well? And fewer footnotes referencing Supreme Court case outrages?

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strathearnrose ,
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@ergative @bookstodon @books ah yes, this one of my bugbears too! I don’t want to be preached at, I want a good story. And any good story will have things to say - but no story and I’ll stop reading.

dilmandila , to bookstodon group
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I'm trying to read This Is How You Lose The Time War, but I'm struggling to understand what is going on, and I'm not sure if it gets better. It feels like a dense read. I heard so much about it, but perhaps I'm too impatient?

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strathearnrose ,
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@dilmandila @bookstodon I’ve read it & thought it was sort of OK - but I wasn’t going ‘Wow’. We are allowed not to agree with all the rave reviews without thinking there’s something wrong with us 😉

beexcessivelydiverting , to bookstodon group
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Why are we so obsessed with era romances?

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/why-are-we-so-obsessed-with-regency-era-romances/image-gallery/0ed5acbb63b39ffbb03656428798958e

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strathearnrose ,
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@beexcessivelydiverting @bookstodon Taboo, currently on BBC iPlayer, presents a rather* less romantic Regency setting

*euphemism for dark, grimy & not at all genteel

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