Trivet, Trug, Sorrel

Trivet
I asked my grandmother lots of things over Christmas including 'what kind of device do I need to be able to cook things over my fireplace in the winter, it has no hanging hooks.'

Here answer was to describe a certain kind of trivet. Trivets in general are things you put hot pots on, but the trivet itself is not heating device. Metal patterned placemats count as trivets by this defiition.

She showed me her fireplace, it has a built in swinging trivet, a little metal platform built into the grate that swivels over and away from the fireplace to allow you to cook things in normal pots, no hooks required!

I'll have to figure out how to make one, time to visit a foundry again for the first time in a decade.

Sorrel
While fixing a Christmas night salad for myself and my grandmother I wandered through her garden. She introduced me to a new perenial herb, sorrel. She claims hers is perennial and French.

Sorrel is delicious. It is flavoursome and savoury. It is long leafy leaves that tast a bit like subtle tomatoes. I have seeds.

Trugg
I recounted mr_storysmith's story of looking for a trugg. Nana agrees that they are difficult to find and says she just uses a flat woven basket instead.

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