{"id":2297,"date":"2010-07-15T19:08:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T18:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2010-07-15T19:08:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T18:08:23","slug":"blow-blow-thou-july-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=2297","title":{"rendered":"Blow, Blow Thou… July<\/i> Wind?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We know there’s not really a such thing as a British summer, but July is looking a lot like October these days. We’re having thirty mile an hour winds, pelting rain, and a bit of a nip in the air, seriously. The temp this morning was in the mid-fifties (13°C) and the wind made it feel much worse.<\/p>\n

So much for July. There must be a Plan B for the wedding we’re attending this weekend; T. wishes she had one for her outfit, and has wondered uneasily if it’s okay to wear velvet for an early afternoon wedding in July. Brr.<\/p>\n

\"Sea<\/a><\/p>\n

As we often do when in need of fresh comestibles, we hied ourselves this past week with another trip to See Woo, home of the entertaining vegetarian aisle. While other shoppers are there to get catering stuff in bulk or find bargains on produce, we are merely there to look in the frozen food section and say, “Ooh, do you think that’d be good?”<\/p>\n

Chicken paws. Vegetarian shrimp. Steamed Vegetarian cod. Various fun things to do with tofu, textured vegetable protein, and seaweed. This week’s most unusual purchase was the Chicken-flavored Vegetarian<\/i> Ham (oh, the dichotomies offered there). We haven’t opened it yet, but it sounded so ridiculous we sort of had to get it.<\/p>\n

\"Vegetarian<\/a><\/p>\n

The most unexpected item so far was the steamed vegetarian cod. Despite being wrapped in a broad band of seaweed, it has no real fishy taste, but is very soft, and matches well with the mushrooms and a mild soup broth which comes (frozen) with it. We served it with a few noodles, and it was a perfect blustery weather dish – perfect for a strangely cold summer day.<\/p>\n

The main reason we went to See Woo, of course, was because we were out of edamame. It seems tragic to think that we left two bags of them in Mrs. Taylor’s freezer in Virginia, but we hope she’ll be guilted into at least trying them.<\/p>\n

-D & T<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We know there’s not really a such thing as a British summer, but July is looking a lot like October these days. We’re having thirty mile an hour winds, pelting rain, and a bit of a nip in the air, seriously. The temp this morning was in the mid-fifties (13°C) and the wind made it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}