Cheap pleasures

[fpb]

I miscalculated the starting amount of chickpeas and ended up with an absolutely COLOSSAL amount of humus. Just as well that I love the stuff and that eating it is never a chore. In fact, what with humus, chestnuts to be roasted, and fresh tomato for salad, this is going to be a very pleasant couple of food days.

There's an awful lot of pleasures to be enjoyed in life, even if you are poor.

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[elegant-bonfire.livejournal.com]

Hummus is awesome, esp. on wheat crackers. Just for lulz, over here humus with one l means the decomposed stuff you put on your garden. ;)

[mentalguy.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmmmmm, humus. I wish I had some handy now.

[mentalguy.livejournal.com]

hummus even.

[thefish30.livejournal.com]

How do you roast your chestnuts? I have yet to find a way that doesn't result in raw fingertips from peeling.

I confess to hummus curiosity as well. Is tahini necessary?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

You just put up with the raw fingertips. But you can ease the problem a bit by crushing the cooked but still unshelled chestnut gently between the table-top and a cloth-covered fingertip. If you do it properly, the meat will stay in one piece while the wooden shell will be cracked enough to break it and slip it off.

[deansteinlage.livejournal.com]

I've gotten on pretty well just using toasted sesame.

[inverarity.livejournal.com]

I love chickpeas. (We call 'em garbanzo beans over here.) But I'm too lazy to make hummus. So I just bake them with olive oil and cayenne pepper -- a nice healthy alternative to potato chips.

[deansteinlage.livejournal.com]

Do you mash them first?

[inverarity.livejournal.com]

No. I bake them whole. They're nice and crunchy.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I'm too lazy to make hummus
Get a blender. I don't know how it is over there, but kitchen gadgets of all kinds - even breadmakers and small ovens - are remarkably cheap over here.

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

Could I borrow your Latin skills for a moment? How would one translate "to love anew" into Latin? "amare de novo"? "de novo amare"?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Both would be OK, because word order in Latin is not fixed (except for some basic rules). However, I don't quite like de novo for "again" - I would have to hit my dictionaries. I'll be back to you in a short while.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I think that ex novo might be an option, although it would sound very strange as a family name.

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

What do you think of the following quote from Aquinas:
Secundum quod unumquodque habet esse de novo, sic de novo competit ei fieri; nam eius est fieri cuius est et esse, ad hoc enim aliquid fit ut sit.

He's talking about the production of the rational soul, but I think it kind of works. Plus, if all goes well, we'll be the conduits for God to produce some new rational souls, lol.

I'm also looking at this one:
Oportet igitur quod cum eam consequitur, aliqua dispositione de novo addita elevetur, quam dicimus gloriae lumen: quo quidem intellectus noster a Deo perficitur, qui solus secundum suam naturam hanc propriam formam habet.

The Betrothed wants it to be a quote from something, for reasons I can't comprehend well.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

What bothers me is that all your quotations are from mediaeval Latin. My ear inevitably hears de novo as an Italianism - di nuovo. ex novo, on the other hand, is certainly classical, and represents the same usage as the standard definition of God's creative act as being ex nihilo, out of nothing.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Mp. According to Wikipedia, ex novo and de novo are synonymous. Well, do what you wish.

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

It occurred to me that some future person might be able to deduce something I don't want deduced from my second comment, so I deleted it. I hope that's ok. I can go into more detail privately if you like.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

never you mind. But have you noticed filialucis' excellent suggestion? (Not that it is surprising; she has more Latin in her little finger than I in my whole body.)

[filialucis]

Suggestion: denuo amare.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

YESS!!

[super-pan.livejournal.com]

Yes, there is, and thank you for the reminder.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

*hugs* *hugs*
How is your finger? And everything else? I worry about you and your husband.

[super-pan.livejournal.com]

The finger is healing great! I hope to have skin sometime next week! As for everything else, I consider us to be extremely fortunate, and except for stress and fatigue, we are also pretty happy. So we're doing pretty well, all things considered.