jmcquown wrote:
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> or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?

I'm digesting a bowl of three very small halved,
sliced, and fried yellow potatoes, a yellow onion
cut into strips and caramelized, and two habanero
peppers sliced into thin strips.

If my friend Cindy hadn't called in the middle
of the process, I would have remembered to toss
in a handful of walnut pieces toward the end.

Since Tuesday, I've been following a strict
anti-gout diet. Apparently, those chicken
sausages I've been eating put me very close
to the gout threshold, and something triggered
it on Wednesday. Either the extra exercise
(I doubled my use of the elliptical trainer
on Monday and Tuesday), or a piece of cheese
I ate on Tuesday, or maybe I didn't drink
enough water.

It was never a severe case. I only needed
one Advil on Thursday, and I didn't need one
on Friday but I took it anyway. I had a warning
sign on Wednesday, actual gout on Thursday,
in recovery mode on Friday, and it's no longer
painful or stiff today, but I know that I should
wait another day or two before consuming the
one last sausage, which will be consumed one-half
sausage per day, rather than the previous rate
of one sausage per day. Alas, they are good
sausages but I guess I won't buy them anymore.