Love chutney!! Send me some.
I just did a simple-munchy version yesterday, with corn, a tiny bit of soy sauce, a bit of orange marmelade, and maple syrup.
Plus the usual bits of pimento, some rubbed black pepper, etc.
I usually use apricot marmelade instead of orange, but ran out of the apricot; the orange worked fine.
Had some heated for dinner last night; used some as a cold dip for Breton wafers with lunch yesterday.
Hmmm...not much left now, I wonder why...
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I don't do F.A.T., either the retail or the Tinker Toy kind. I worked retail for many years as a side job, no interest at all in being in a store then, and the people who do the F.A.T. Rube-Goldberg-like things usually have all the people on their team they need, anyway, so...no need.
The last F.A.T. at its original site was a couple years ago, of course:
https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/fatBut there are others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine__________
On another note, I realized what I'd really rather be doing.
One year I and a friend went to NYC and spent the weekend hitting all the galleries, libraries, and parks. (I also found a swing-dance venue for Saturday night, and still managed to get up in time for the St. John the Divine service in the AM).
What I haven't done since I don't know when (maybe when I got my first grant to go to France for research) was to be in, oh, I don't know, Paris, Belgium, the UK, anywhere else, and pick and choose what I do when as I wish.
The year-of-the-grant I was staying in our school's facility for students abroad, and the director asked me to smuggle in cans of cranberries since they didn't have those there. I couldn't find any (and wouldn't have had any space in my suitcase, anyway, with all the books for four months) so he was a bit disappointed, but at least he didn't throw me out...
What would be fun would be to re-create as much of a Thanksgiving as I could for my cousin and her friends in Liege.
THAT would be very interesting....hmmm.....have to ponder on that.
What would you do/where would you go, to do something like that?
M.