This feminist conscious raising seems to be working

I've been enjoying reading the Geek Feminism Blog some of it is relevant to being an engineer and other bits are just making me look a bit harder at the way my world works. 

It's also been raising the consciousness of friends and I've had a couple of discussions of "mansplaining" with the rest of my family.  After some arguing to and fro, we decided to call it just 'splaining, because apparently I can be guilty of it too.  They were hard discussions, with  feminism bagging and a couple of "you're wrong" when I described incidents that had happened to friends.  tangent_woman , your trailer reversing story has featured heavily in our discussions.

Today Sneetch told me a story about an incident at school and it restored my faith in my parenting and the child I'm raising.

Sneetch watched someone driving the school go-cart around the basketball court. He admired the drivers skill, the driver took the corners well and drove fast but in control.  When the car stopped he noticed that the driver was a girl and was then astonished to hear the teachers and male students giving her advice about her driving.  He made a point of going to the driver and complementing her on her skills.  He was also pleased to see one of the boys drive too fast, spin and stall.

Slow Food, Fast

The title of this post is also the title of the cookbook I'm writing in my head.

Today we had slow food in one hour, including tidying the kitchen, although there were three of us.

I made pasta with eggs and flour.  Sneetch ran it through the pasta machine.

MsNotaGoth cut some of the pumpkin in 1cm slices, until she got overwhelmed and gave up, and I finished it off.   Then she olive oiled it and put it on trays in the oven.  Where we cooked it until it was a little bit burnt.

Then I went to the garden and picked sage leaves to cook in butter.

Cooking the pasta takes only 2 minutes, then I put on roast pumpkin and poured over burnt butter sauce and crispy sage leaves.  It tasted fabulous.

Sneetch asked for goats cheese but I only had marinated fetta, which was a pretty good additional flavour.

To try and persuade Rose to eat pasta (without the "yukky" pumpkin and sage), I added unsalted butter and sugar - that's really good too!