{"id":304,"date":"2011-08-10T16:25:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T23:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rjjblog.maryjanesfarm.org\/wordpress\/?p=304"},"modified":"2011-08-10T16:25:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T23:25:21","slug":"lets-get-rowdy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/304","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Get Rowdy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThis week\u2019s word gives me church giggles. That\u2019s how good it is.<\/p>\n

Rowdydow!<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2014did you feel it? ROWDYDOW!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Magnificent, right? It means: a hubbub. A noisy, boisterous, and uproarious thing indeed.<\/p>\n

The word is slang, to be sure, but even slang has serious \u201crules,\u201d farmgirls. Rules we can\u2019t be breakin\u2019. So, if you\u2019re going to use rowdydow<\/strong> as an adjective (an adjective describes a noun by answering one of these three questions: What kind is it? How many are there? Which one is it? Strong, fast, many, tired, terrifying, painful. You get the idea. Say \u201crowdydowdy<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

But first, let\u2019s take rowdydow<\/strong> for a spin:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen MaryJane went to investigate the rowdydow<\/strong> in the chicken coop, she found that one of the girls had laid a golden egg.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Photo, courtesy www.fotopedia.com, alles-schlumpf<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThe rowdydowdy<\/strong> flock became even more uproarious when MaryJane unwrapped the gold foil to reveal a solid, 72% cacao, organic, fair-trade chocolate egg.\u201d<\/p>\n

Little is known of rowdydow<\/strong>\u2019s origin, though there are hints. The Irish protest\/anti-recruitment song, \u201cArthur McBride,\u201d dates back to 1840 and describes two Irishmen who go for a walk on Christmas morning and are accosted by English enlistment officers. The Irishmen have none of it, fight back, and use the English drummer\u2019s \u201crow-dee-dow-dow<\/strong>\u201d as a football.<\/p>\n

But back to eggs.<\/p>\n

Speaking of surprise golden, er, chocolate eggs, my house-pet chicken, Ginger, laid her first REAL egg. Ginger is the chicken showing off her nappy in the April\/May 2011 issue of my magazine. And me? I dressed up like Paris Hilton\u2014maybe you didn\u2019t catch that\u2014one reader wrote in referring to \u201cTHAT woman.\u201d Forgive us our need to get zany every now and then. Fusible. Boffo. Jocose. Farcical. Sassy?<\/p>\n

I like sassy.<\/p>\n

We had a sassy good time shooting that photo.<\/p>\n

So to eat Ginger\u2019s first egg…<\/p>\n

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I wanted to savor its full flavor and not have any interference from say, cheese or butter. So I did this trick I learned from one of my farmhands\u2014the PERFECT way to poach an egg.<\/p>\n

Crack one egg into a small bowl, being careful not to break the yolk.<\/p>\n

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Bring two inches of water to boil in a saucepan.<\/p>\n

Take a slotted spoon and stir the boiling water into a whirlpool.<\/p>\n

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Pour the egg into the eye of the storm.<\/p>\n

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Watch the perfect storm take shape.<\/p>\n

When it\u2019s done, in about 2 minutes, use the slotted spoon to lift it out.<\/p>\n

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Ginger\u2019s egg white had a softened divinity texture (not at all rubbery like a boiled egg) and the yolk was creamy and oh-so-perfectly runny, but warm and full of flavor, and it just BEGGED for a piece of toast to sop it all up afterwards.<\/p>\n

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Every last happy, saffron-yellow, good-for-you nutriment was passed from Ginger to me. That\u2019s nutrition. That\u2019s farm-made. That\u2019s food the way it should be.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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