Thursday, January 11, 2024

Eat like a bear, and sock mending

At this rate these hand knit socks will be more darn than sock. But they're getting more interesting, so there's that.



And yesterday I did some very simple cooking. Salmon tails panfried in avocado oil and butter, peas,  little yellow potatoes microwaved and mashed.





Three meals, with lemon juice added to the pan, swirled around to pick up the oils in a brown butter, then drizzled over the cooked fish.

Then dessert, berries with raw honey.


At this point, salmon, berries, honey, I realized I was on the Eat Like a Bear Diet. Which may explain why I fancy hibernating until March.


I've been listening to this on audio book, a whiny reader, sounds like "I'm telling on you to the teacher" type, but I tolerated it till I got the Kindle version, switched, gladly returned the audio, and realized on reading further: this is another book about plagiarizing! 

Another book about a writing  teacher whose own novels are drying up, using the work of a now dead student, just the plot,  but writing the novel itself. 

Isn't this very much like the much newer Yellowface, except there it's a fellow writer and an entire nonfiction manuscript? Are we seeing books about plagiarism plagiarizing each other? Is this a literary version of the recursive image? Answer came there none.

Happy day, everyone, try to think your own thinks!

Has anyone got the puzzle yet, or have I been missing subtle clues?




36 comments:

  1. I wonder if the influx of that plot line in books is because of the current artificial intelligence wave where plagiarism is rampant.

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    1. That's an interesting aspect I hadn't considered.

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  2. In my world, instant coffee is ”simple” cooking. As I said, those socks have become treasures.

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    1. So smart of you to have a great cook in the family. Even if you do get stuck with cleanup!

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  3. I ordered pizza. We tend to do that every month to 6 weeks.

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  4. I now will be considering eating like a bear! I think the AI may be why as well. My brain isn't made for word puzzles!

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    1. I cracked up when I realized I could do well among the bears. Up to a point.

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  5. I'm coming to your house for dinner. That looks so good. You also did an excellent job on the socks. Have a great day today.

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  6. I have to buy some fish. We are out. Your salmon looks and sounds good!

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    1. It's the cheapest way to buy salmon. Tastes just as good as the center cut though.

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  7. I suppose plagiarism IS a hot issue these days, but wouldn't it be ironic if an author plagiarized a book about plagiarism?! (Plus "Yellowface" has an added racial element, I think. I haven't read it yet!)

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    1. Yes, the writer who died was the hot up and coming Asian writer, partly a model minority take, partly a flavor of the month racial take.

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  8. I have several answers to the puzzle but not sure if any are real words. One might be useful if you need a good scrub.

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  9. Now I've got it! Not the sort of place to lurk

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    1. Yes, that sounds like it, cue scary music..

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  10. Husband is cooking salmon as veg for dinner as I write! How have I missed your most recent posts? I thought I'd been checking.

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  11. Meal looks delicious!
    Plagarism Yuck! A major worry I've had since I was a kid when I knew I want to be an author, is being accused of using another writer's work. In high school, I wanted to stop reading just so I couldn't be accused of plagarism. That didn't go very far as reading is school. I decided to have folks I trust that read a lot, and I mean a lot, to review my work before publication for anything that sounds like somebody else.

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    1. That sounds like high alertness. I wonder how much deliberate theft, as opposed to accidental echoing, happens. I've had published work stolen and appearing under someone else's name! A quick word with the editor, check cancelled, thief blacklisted from the magazine.

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  12. I love salmon. And I like it best just cooked in a pan with a little butter, lemon juice, salt, and dill. Very much like you. Simple ingredients so often make the best dishes.

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    1. When the ingredients are good, they don't need to be improved by cooking ideas.

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  13. I don't know if I lost my comment or if you got it. I talked about herring. Now the book, I have read it, I think it had a surprising ending or something, but that's all I remember. I don't think I liked it and how it ended.

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    1. I didn't find a comment from you, thanks for trying again. I think we both love herring. I'm uncertain about this book, though.

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  14. That is a lot of meals for one person!
    I figured out the puzzle from the dark recesses of my mind.
    Life has been a bit hectic here. I need to catch up.

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    1. At one meal per day it works out! Thanks for the clue, too. I've missed you in here.

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  15. We have that very meal about once a week. Love salmon! Love your socks, too.

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    1. Salmon peas and mash are a classic combo. It seems very spring- like to me, maybe because of the peas.

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  16. Your Eat Like A Bear Diet looks fabulous. Be careful - we might have to enter you in Fat Bear Week 2024!

    Those darned socks! (so to speak).

    I will go take another crack at HH thanks to the hints herein.

    Chris from Boise

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    1. Fat Bear Week, heh! I'm up for it. Currently wearing the socks, so warm. The fancy darning is under my feet, can't be seen, by me, anyway, when they're on.

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  17. AHA! The answer leaped out at me from the tenebrous (new word for me!) pages of the OED. Thanks only to Liz H and sparklingmerlot and their good clues.

    CfB

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    1. Sounds like you got it. And I finally puzzled out your last bit! Of course! Your sig!

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  18. Your simple cooking looks better than my complicated cooking! And that's yet another reason why I don't do audio books.

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    1. Audiobooks read by Juliet Stevens or Hugh Fraser or Tom Hanks are wonderful. Then there are a lot which are hopeless, and those are the cheapies the library offers.

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