The name of this festive wildflower is close to “Galliard,” the name of a brisk Renaissance dance. My husband planted these two years ago. They’re windworthy of the prairie, as well as a joy for the eyes.
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Ha ha ha! Actually sounds like the typical breakfast of someone I know after a night out with the girls!
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That actually sounds very alarming!
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Sounds vile, wouldn’t know myself ( don’t drink alcohol) but burnt toast? Must be some chemical reaction as it burns…
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I find a lot of things to appreciate about being gluten intolerant. . . 🙂
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At least there’s more variety now than say 20 years ago. My younger son has been vegetarian for nearly a year now, and he eats so much better now, wider range of food etc. I knew someone who was allergic to mushrooms- what is there in a mushroom to be allergic to?
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It’s easy to get good gluten-free flours–buckwheat, sorghum, coconut. . .I make my own bread; the g/f bread on the market tastes like school paste, and most of it has rice, which I can’t eat either.
I have no idea what allergens lurk in mushrooms; I love them but my husband can’t eat them, so we don’t have them.
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I used to enjoy making my own bread, buckwheat etc. sound interesting, might have to have a go with some different flours. The shop bought breads seem bland and chewy, bit of a pointless eating exercise really.
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I make crisp flatbreads and I think they’re really tasty, especially spread with sunflower seed butter.
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Oh they sound really good! I shall have to do some recipe research : )
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I just do online recipe searches and adapt them to what I can eat.
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Yes, I follow a couple of lovely food blogs that have recipes that can be adapted for vegetarians, so that makes sense : )
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I worked in a coffee shop once, and it always smelled really nice, but the taste…burnt toast…
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Please don’t blog-flog me for saying so, but that was honestly my impression of British coffee. . .
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Not being a coffee drinker at all I am both unoffended and unsurprised by your opinion of British coffee…my older son went through a phase of drinking coffee with guarana…after pulling him off the ceiling three or four times, I threw it away!
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I wonder if the guarana enhancement was to thwart the taste. . .
But I recall that burnt toast is part of the universal poison antidote triad–the other two parts are milk of magnesia and strong coffee!
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They’re pretty, little sunbursts!
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That’s what I think, too–sunbursts! Yet they’re familarly called Blanket flowers!
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Does that refer to how they grow and cover the ground?
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I suppose so, but I’ve never actually seen them as a ground cover–but certainly it would be a beautiful one!
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I read a book called “The Chamomile Lawn” years ago, and I never quite got the sense of it till I went to a house where there was one…it was soft to walk on and smelled lovely!
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I’ve seen chamomile plants, but I have no recollection of the fragrance. I imagine a lawn of little (aren’t they yellow?) flowers would be pretty. I’ve just never cultivated a taste for chamomile tea!
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I think they can be yellow or white, my son drinks chamomile and green tea..I think they both taste odd and stick to Typhoo tea!
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Good idea. . .I find green tea good with lemon-ginger tea.
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I’ve tried to like herbal teas but my one experience with jasmine tea put me off-it was like drinking cheap perfume…or how I would imagine it would be, not that I’ve ever tried it!
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Any tea but strong black, like Irish Breakfast, is definitely an acquired taste as far as I’m concerned–and I’m not too acquisitive. I’m a strong-black coffee type.
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