{"id":4055,"date":"2014-04-12T20:15:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T00:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=4055"},"modified":"2014-04-12T20:15:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T00:15:41","slug":"bitsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/04\/12\/bitsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitsa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitsa #1<br \/>\n1 small tub leftover tuna casserole<br \/>\n2 slices sourdough bread<br \/>\n1 glass tomato juice<br \/>\nmayonnaise, salt, fresh ground pepper, 1 large dill pickle, cold butter<\/p>\n<p>Butter the bread with cold, hard butter<br \/>\nso the chunks stay thick<br \/>\nspread tuna casserole on bread<br \/>\ngarnish with condiments<br \/>\nslice dill pickle into long slices<br \/>\nand lay over the top<br \/>\nadd final slice of buttered sourdough<br \/>\ncut in half<br \/>\nenjoy with tomato juice, Friday<\/p>\n<p>Bitsa #2:<br \/>\n1 tin brisling sardines, 22-27 count<br \/>\nsliced warm 3 year old cheddar cheese<br \/>\nEnglish Muffin<br \/>\nDijon mustard, salt, fresh ground pepper, butter<br \/>\nhot tea to taste<\/p>\n<p>Using a fork , pierce the edges of the English Muffin<br \/>\nand separate the halves, then toast it<br \/>\nbutter the hot English Muffin<br \/>\nload on the sardines, eating excess as you go<br \/>\nbaste liberally with Dijon mustard<br \/>\nsalt, pepper to taste<br \/>\nTop with the other buttered half of the English muffin<br \/>\nenjoy with tea, Friday<\/p>\n<p>Bitsa #ultimate<br \/>\nGather all the bits of flotsam<br \/>\nthat roll rich onto the beach<br \/>\nof the day<br \/>\nLike Crusoe and Friday<br \/>\nsalvaging hogsheads of cheese<br \/>\nand chipped beef<br \/>\nfloating in after the storm<br \/>\nthese are the muscles<br \/>\nthat lift us<br \/>\nover the falling dark<br \/>\nand carry us up to light<br \/>\nlittle bitsa this and that as you go<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/04\/01\/cruel-gruel-2\/napowrimo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4009\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4009\" alt=\"NaPoWriMo\" src=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NaPoWriMo-150x136.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NaPoWriMo-150x136.png 150w, https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NaPoWriMo-220x200.png 220w, https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NaPoWriMo-330x300.png 330w, https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NaPoWriMo.png 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NaPoWriMo 12: My wife&#8217;s uncle was a chef who was fond of assembling meals that he called &#8220;bitsa&#8221;, because it consisted of bitsa this and bitsa that &#8212; whatever was leftover or available. <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/04\/12\/bitsa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[890,3],"tags":[61,973],"class_list":["post-4055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-napowrimo","category-poetry","tag-food","tag-survival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}