Still blooming (Thai basil)
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
Last night we sampled the sweet basil (a few black spots, but good flavor), and tonight we’re having the Thai version—as an addition to some, ahem, (helpfully prepped) Thai food (from TJs).
Musings
Rockin’ the pancake sandwich
Monday, 7 November 2011
Every once in a great while I enjoy a pancake sandwich for dinner. A fried egg with a fresh hot ww pancake on either side, plus real maple syrup. Times two. Oh, yum.
Very happy palate. (Let’s not discuss the waistline.)
Incidentally, it’s organic
Saturday, 5 November 2011
Nestled in the cooler with ice water….
New household favorite white, courtesy TJs, from Spain, and gently bubbly: Albero is the name. Enjoy like a fine-tuned vinho verde, more toward the prosecco portion of the taste spectrum than the champagne zone. Tastier than most in this price range.
Autumn brings anthracnose
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
I’m loving the huge harvest of golden pear tomatoes festooning the front yard (where the sun is), but I’m not keeping up with the volume that the wild volunteer plants are producing—the last production push before frost arrives.
Tonight, for example, I didn’t help the harvest situation, as I picked Thai basil not tomato-lets.
Sunshine on grey
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Thanks, new iPhone cam.
We did the unusual today—we went out to lunch.
First, though, we visited a Buckhead art gallery to see Diane’s photographs. I love her images, and these were all landscapes, and gorgeous.
Then, since we were in la-di-da Buckhead, where we almost never hang out, and fine restaurants abound there, we picked one on a side street at random and were quickly seated. This was the view from the window next to our table, and I’m not sure why the arrangement/color of the vehicles caught my eye. But what made me want to photograph it was the linear greyscale visuals across space in the midst of the cars….
Meanwhile, I ordered the soup of the day, which was a pureed roasted beet soup. A pleasure.
And, as you might imagine, not grey at all.
The produce keeps comin’
Thursday, 20 October 2011
The weather is definitely autumnal, but our garden-let managed to hold on, producing many yellow pear-tomatoes, so many that they’re rotting on the vine (sad), and this near-perfect green pepper.
Grinding along
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
Yeah, I’m still on the coffee.
So, household bills are up, as coffee costs more per cup than even the mildly fancy green tea that I also enjoy.
Mix and sniff (mmmm)
Thursday, 22 September 2011
Every once in a while you need to try something creative you’ve never tried before—but it doesn’t have to be a big something.
Today, I made five-spice powder. Actually, I only ground the star anise and fennel seeds. The others were already powder that I could just stir in.
Still, it should be five-space powder, I think, as in five spaces* in your kitchen—or more!—will get powdered in your grinding and mixing activities.
* In my case, two counters (all I have), the floor, the table, and my hands. Plus, a mortar and pestle (also producing one palm blister), the food processor, another bowl, the fine-mesh strainer…see, it mounts up!
Dance for me…
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
Muddled around all day, and the household trash recepticals still need to be emptied.
Decided on a menu for tomorrow’s intimate dinner for four. Well, except I’m not sure if I’ll do the key lime pie or not.
Wide ranging Tuesday
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Spent at least half the day and most of my daily allotment of alert brain cells on the 2011 articles in Cliodynamics, the journal discussing the intersection between mathematical analysis and history (mostly).
Then I took more of those sun-dried tomatoes I mentioned yesterday and made some sloppy joes, of course not like your mom made, if she was a Midwestern cook from my childhood. And it wasn’t just the sun-dried tomatoes.