The WLBOTT Ladle & Lube cooks have consulted with The Great Chefs of Europe, as well as Elder KM (she knows her varenyky!) We have collected a variety of stuffing suggestions. This Conclave of Cooks, the Potsdam Perogy Plenary, has long been a favorite subject of Renaissance painters. Results of the Chefs’ Conclave Savory & […]
Month: September 2025
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Motivational Monday
September 29,2025 – Forgiveness “Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.”Archbishop Desmond TutuNobel Peace Prize Winner (1931 – 2021) “Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”Mahatma GandhiIndian political and spiritual leader (1869-1948) Elder JZ: When I get exasperated with life, the universe, etc., I find comfort in John Prine’s whimsical […]
As we prepare for Elder JimZim’s visit to WLBOTT HQ and the associated varenyky culinary adventure, we will also be adding to the digital dumpling database of knowledge. At this point, the WLBOTT team of Perogy Sciences have made two ground-breaking discoveries. The Micro-Perogy In-Vitro Dumpling Technology WLBOTT research explores the many opportunities in In-Vitro […]
WLBOTT’s Ladle & Lube Test Kitchen is bubbling over with excitement! In a few days Elder JimZim will be visiting WLBOTT HQ. After a perfunctory review of our financials (we have none), and a quick ISO/OSHA compliance check, we will be making Ukrainian varenyky (also known as perogies). There will be a great deal of […]
The story of Sisters Bernadette, Regina, and Rita Yesterday morning The Guardian brought us a wonderful story – some feisty nuns who only want to continue living the life they’ve spent their entire lives cultivating. But there’s a lot more to the story (see the Guardian’s full article) – the Church hierarchy cut off their […]
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Mycelium’s Midnight Mingle
We’d be remiss if we didn’t follow up yesterday’s blott with a description of fungi reproduction. Let’s Make Sex Boring (from Gemini) Mushroom reproduction involves producing tiny, lightweight spores through either asexual or sexual processes, which are then dispersed by wind or other means to grow into new thread-like hyphae and form a network called a […]
[Today we have a guest blott from Elder JimZim] Gentle People – I was hiking in a very nice park in Maryland today and came across these beautiful mushrooms growing out of a decaying log. In addition to the bright color, they had interesting geometric patterns on them. Since mushrooms grow on moist, organically rich […]
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Eat or be Eaten – Kudzu Style
Kuzdu has a complicated relationship with humans On the one hand, it is a nitrogen-fixing legume (related to the pea) that pulls nitrogen out of the air and fertilizes the soil. It’s great at preventing erosion, cows and goats love to eat it, and much of the plant is also edible for humans. But anyone […]
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Satan’s Buffet
The WLBOTT team was reflecting on the second stanza of the famous Horatio G. Spafford hymn, It Is Well with My Soul. Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,Let this blest assurance control,That Christ hath regarded my helpless estate,And hath shed His own blood for my soul.- It Is Well with My Soul Time […]
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Motivational Monday
September 22, 2025 – Peace “Inner peace doesn’t come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.”—Marianne Williamson (born 1952) author, lecturer “When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”—Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) guitarist, singer, songwriter A Prayer for Peace in Ukraine Peace Like a River […]