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Knitting can be challenging
when it's late at night
and you're on the N train
which is crowded with dodgy characters wearing nicely polished shoes
and you've just drunk a respectable amount of beer
and played funny video games from the eighties
with a friend you secretly love
who will clearly never love you, for many reasons
including your abysmal level of skill
at blowing up pretend spaceships that look like flying lobsters
and you needed to drink and blow up pretend spaceships in the first place
because you devoted your time at work today
to giving lovely and wonderful teenagers some news
that would make them feel sad and forsaken and weepy
which is the opposite of the effect you usually have on teenagers
and you are tired
and anyway you don't really know much about how to knit. 


I am going to experiment with making some kind of slaw type thing including grated squash and grated beets. Sound good? I have high hopes but thought of this while drinking.

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 I'm going to start putting recipes I make up here, because I never write anything down and create these amazing things I can't replicate. So:

winter vegetable slaw

Coarsely grate and throw into a bowl:

Three tart apples, cored but with the skin on (toss with vinegar or lemon juice before adding other stuff)
Half of a small green cabbage
One small fennel bulb
One gigantic beet (peel it first)
One very small red onion

Peel and seed either half of a normal butternut squash or a whole tiny one. Coarsely grate that and spread it out on a cookie sheet or something. Sprinkle it with salt to draw out the bitterness. wait several minutes then pat dry with paper towels and throw in with everything else. 

Mix this all up. Marvel at how beautiful and colorful and vitaminy it is and wonder whether your hands will still be pink tomorrow. 

Press handfuls of this between paper towels if it's way too juicy, which mine was. 

Mix a little garlic vinegar (I have this great one that's cider vinegar with garlic and brown sugar), lots of cracked pepper, a bit of lemon juice and a little honey dissolved in hot water. Toss all this stuff with it. 

Taste it, shout hooray!, and adjust any flavors that need adjusting.