Orthodox Nun with goats - Marigold

[das8949]

[puellapaschalis]

Now I want goats.

What does goat taste like?

[Gabriela]

Now I want goats.

What does goat taste like?

Oily with a lot of bones. Not my favorite meat...

What's wrong with the top of that baby goat's head?

[Alberto Guimaraes]

Peace and Good!

I suppose it' s a wound.

Br. Alberto Guimaraes OFS

Braga - Portugal

[Pax_et bonum]

What's wrong with the top of that baby goat's head?

Probably it's from disbudding, or removing the buds that would have become the goat's horns. It's done for the safety of the goat, its fellow goats, and the owners.

[Gabriela]

Probably it's from disbudding, or removing the buds that would have become the goat's horns. It's done for the safety of the goat, its fellow goats, and the owners.

Huh. I figured it had something to do with the horns, but didn't know they remove them. Thanks! 

[Charbel]

Huh. I figured it had something to do with the horns, but didn't know they remove them. Thanks! 

Yeah, and when they are removed, you have to do it when they're young like that, otherwise they will bleed to death ):

[puellapaschalis]

Now I'm equating disbudding with piercing small children's ears because then it won't hurt so much.

(I was six. It really hurt!)

(When I had my ears pierced, I mean. I cover up my horns with my hair and mantilla when in church)

[Gabriela]

(When I had my ears pierced, I mean. I cover up my horns with my hair and mantilla when in church)

[Makarioi]

To me, goat milk and goat cheese tastes like dirty socks. Very gamey.  A friend of mine made French silk pie but didn't mention it was made with goat milk. We all took one bite and thought the milk she made it with was sour.  Left the rest on our plates. 

I watched on Dr Pol that they actually burn off the goat horn buds. They don't care for it but it's over fast and then they go on doing their little goat things. 

[Strictlyinkblot]

Now I'm equating disbudding with piercing small children's ears because then it won't hurt so much.

(I was six. It really hurt!)

(When I had my ears pierced, I mean. I cover up my horns with my hair and mantilla when in church)

There's a good reason to cover your head in church

[vee]

This thread is one of the best threads to ever happen on VS!

[Luigi]

This thread is one of the best threads to ever happen on VS!

It takes so little to make some people happy...

[vee]

It takes so little to make some people happy...

yup

[puellapaschalis]

There's a good reason to cover your head in church

Small marginal note in most Pauline manuscripts that somehow didn't make it into the canon.

To me, goat milk and goat cheese tastes like dirty socks. Very gamey.  A friend of mine made French silk pie but didn't mention it was made with goat milk. We all took one bite and thought the milk she made it with was sour.  Left the rest on our plates. 

I watched on Dr Pol that they actually burn off the goat horn buds. They don't care for it but it's over fast and then they go on doing their little goat things. 

....what is this silk pie of which you speak? Is it like this? (All praise the Pioneer Woman, btw. That lady taught me how to make proper mashed potato and French onion soup)

It takes so little to make some people happy...

Ok so something actually vocation-related: once I went in to lunch to discover we were having lasagne - at the time my all-time favourite thing to eat. I realised that life in the monastery was so simple that the thought of lasagne for lunch just made my day. And that made me happy, because if your life is simple enough that a lunch dish cheers you from having done some gardening (or whatever it was that had made me grumpy), then that life is a good life.

[marigold]

‌@das8949 very cute, thanks for sharing!

‌@puellapaschalis I actually had the same experience with finding lasagne on a monastery table! I agree that it's a good sign when simple things like that cheer you up! I think I was also relieved to find that it was ok to make food as 'complicated' as that... I'd been under the impression that it might be 'fish and a little dried pulse' (brownie points for whoever gets that reference ) so seeing lasagne was a relief.

[Feankie]

There is a restaurant in central Mexico known for it's cabrito  (goat).  We had taken our kids, er.... children, there to eat when they were very young and they loved it.  When they were a little older, we took them once again when we were in Mexico.  The restaurant's selling point is that it uses the freshest goat available.  Well, our youngest had to use the restroom (she was about 6 at the time, now she's 38) so up we went.  When we were in there, we heard BAAAA BAAA coming through the window,  That did it.  She spilled the beans to her siblings that fresh meant "raised in the backyard and processed on site."  They couldn't eat, I couldn't eat, and my husband ate a dinner for 5 and loved it.  To this day I can't eat cabrito. 

Some day I'll tell y'all about the pozole (type of soup made with pork), but we'll need a thread with nuns and pigs   Bon apetit   

Wow, we digress quickly in this Phorum....it helps with the intensity and seriousness we find ourselves immersed in on a day to day basis.

[puellapaschalis]

There is a restaurant in central Mexico known for it's cabrito  (goat).  We had taken our kids, er.... children, there to eat when they were very young...

 

Edited August 18, 2015 by puellapaschalis

[truthfinder]

 We had taken our kids, er.... children, there to eat when they were very young and they loved it.  

Reminds me of a professor I had who was very strict about any student writing about 'kids' in a paper.  She'd usually retort with something about goats.  

[Makarioi]

 

....what is this silk pie of which you speak? Is it like this? (All praise the Pioneer Woman, btw. That lady taught me how to make proper mashed potato and French onion soup)

 

yes, that's it! It's heavenly except when it's made with goat milk!! Yuck!