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Primula Glass Stovetop Tea Pot with Infuser

This glass teapot with a capacity of 40 ounces turns the act of brewing tea into an artistic presentation. Loose tea leaves are placed into the glass infuser, hot water is added, and when the water reaches the desired color or strength, the infuser is lifted out along with all the loose leaves. A glass lid keeps the heat in, and the graceful loop handle makes the pot easy to pour. Tea flowers look beautiful in the pot, too, and work best without the infuser. Made of lightweight yet laboratory-strength borosilicate glass, the teapot won't stain and is safe for use in the microwave and dishwasher. For the tea drinker, Primula also sells a glass tea-making mug and packets of tea flowers, which are AA-grade green tea leaves and actual dried flowers that are hand-sewn into tight balls by artisans in China. After a tea flower ball is place in hot water, it will slowly sink to the bottom and unfurl into full "bloom." Some even have two different kinds of flowers that unfurl into a colorful spectacle, adding fragrance and flavor to the tea.

Twas a weird morning this morn. I crawled into the spare bed just before 4 o'clock and she woke up at 6. However she was still really tired. She was rubbing her face and yawning and laying her head down but then would get up. I ended up grudgingly getting out of bed close to 7 but when she plopped down on the pillow on the floor and started to doze we went back to bed. Brandi began calling the house probably around 8, she woke me up with the first two calls but not the baby. When she called the third time I knew she was probably getting worried so I tried to sneak out of bed to answer the phone. I was not sneaky enough. So we got up and called Brandi back while I prepared breakfast.

I was supposed to give Theo some money for play tickets last night at gaming but totally forgot so there was a plan to potentially head over to his workplace and drop it off but he never called to let me know he got there. We did go for a short walk. I was planning on getting some elastic hair ties, the little rubber ones. They're good for keeping stacks of cards together for gaming and such but while I was out totally forgot about it.

I also had to mail something away for a minis game trade I had going on. Hopefully in a couple weeks or so I'll get a rare figure in return. It's always weird trading through the mail and hoping the person on the other end is not an asshat.

Ooooh and I got another great $6 DVD purchase from HMV: Yo yo Girl Cop. It looks to be a crazy Japanese film about a female cop who wields a deadly yo yo. I'll have to watch it during Isobel's nap times.

For lunch I decided to try out this weird microwavable meal I found at IGA. It was turkey. The weirdest thing about it is that it wasn't in the freezer aisle. It was just on a shelf...it weirded me out so much I had to try it. What kind of turkey is okay to sell if it's on a room temperature shelf? Curiosity got the better of me. However it was pretty damn foul. Two bites later and it was nearly falling apart in the bowl I dumped it into. And it tasted like some weird cardboardy thing. I threw it out and had burrito's instead. Also I had a big glass of iced tea (sweet tea (heh I wrote teat first) for any American's in the audience). I was always surprised that Brandi has never had homemade iced tea. Other people's iced tea always freaked me out as a child. Iced tea for me is when you brew up a large jug of orange pekoe tea, toss in a pile of sugar and throw it in the fridge for a day. When I'd go over to other kids houses and have that powdered crap they called iced tea I'd be totally put off.

Isobel's been really tired lately. Not that I'm complaining since she's napping nearly a third of the time we're at home and it means I get to do some daddy things but it's strange to see her schedule change so rapidly. Now if only she'd get the whole sleeping through the night thing going so Brandi gets some good long sleeps in.

Choucroute garnie
(French for dressed sauerkraut; choucroute is a phonologically frenchified form of Alsatian Surkrut, c.f. German Sauerkraut) is a famous Alsatian recipe for preparing sauerkraut with sausages and other salted meats and charcuterie, and often potatoes.

Although sauerkraut is a traditionally German and Eastern European dish, the French annexation of Alsace and Lorraine following the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 brought this dish to the attention of French chefs and it has since been widely adopted in France.

In principle, there is no fixed recipe for this dish - any preparation of hot sauerkraut with meat and potatoes could qualify - but in practice there are certain traditions, favourite recipes, and stereotypical garnishes that are more easily called choucroute garnie than others. Traditional recipes call for three types of sausage: Frankfurt sausages, Strasbourg sausages, and Montbeliard sausages. Fatty, inexpensive or salted cuts of pork also often form a part of choucroute garnie, including ham hocks, pork knuckles and shoulders, back bacon and slices of salt pork. Other recipes call for fish or goose meat, but this is far less typical.

The sauerkraut itself is usually heated with a glass of Riesling or other dry white wines or stock, and goose or pork fat. In some recipes, it may also be cooked with chopped onion and sliced apples. Food writer Jeffrey Steingarten attempted to catalogue the composition of an authentic recipe in 1989. He writes that every traditional recipe includes black peppercorns, cloves, garlic, juniper berries, onions, and potatoes; most include bay leaves and wine.

Choucroute garnie is available throughout France in canned or microwavable ready-to-eat form.