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August, 2011 Issue #123
CHOPPING
OUR WAY TO HEAVEN
This is a picture
of Haruka’s plate before six of us dove into a memorable meal. Camille and
Amy spent the afternoon making eggplant parmesan from scratch. We bought
the linguine but everything else was grown either in our garden or next door by
Jason and Haruka and processed in our kitchen. From the bottom
of the plate going clockwise are pickled beets, fried okra, sweet and
tangy refrigerator pickles, eggplant parmesan, and linguine with cherry tomatoes
in the middle.
Here’s how we made
the eggplant parmesan. We began by
plunging tomatoes into boiling water to loosen their skins, taking out the
seeds, roasting eggplant and then chopping, chopping, chopping. Sometimes
we go shopping to get a good meal and other times we just start chopping.
We layered the eggplant and sauce with sauteed peppers, onions, shallots, leeks
and garlic.
A PARADE
OF CALORIES
It’s hard not to
get goofy with all the food parading through our kitchen! These eggplants
came from Central Carolina Community College’s Land Lab and because the one on
the left had a nose-like protrusion, Camille drew a face on it. Bob grew
the potatoes. One of these
months, we really should weigh the food we process in our kitchen! At the
height of the season we easily take in and cook up 100 pounds of fresh, locally
grown produce.
DEATH TO
MOWER
The ground settled
around the grounding rod next to the electrical box by the road, making it stick
up enough to bend the blade on our shared riding mower. Bob had remove and
straighten the blade before he could finish mowing the lawn.
DIVING
POND
This is Lyle and
Tami’s pond without any water after the excavators began digging out a spot deep
enough for diving into. A group of neighbors sits in the spot where they
plan to build a new home.
GOOD
FRIENDS
Walking over to
take a look at the pond digging progress was as good an excuse as any for our
gang to wander through the woods together. Camille and Haruka took the
opportunity to get caught up. Jim, Camille, Shane, Garth and Haruka are in
the second photo.
GETAWAY
The six of us
drove to Nags Head for a couple of days of camping, music and beach. See
more pictures at Weekend Getaway to Nags Head
PICKLED
OKRA
Jason and Haruka
came over and pickled fourteen pounds of okra one Sunday afternoon. We
sampled them after a week and they are tasty!
AND MORE
Garth and Shane
wore gloves to cut up jalapenos for hot sauce. Amy and Camille made baba
ghanoush, which is a dip very similar to hummus only made with eggplant instead
of chick peas.
DRESSED IN
BLACK
Camille received a
new dress in the mail from Alaska from Pamela. Amy joined the Natural Chef
program at CCCC can now be found wearing her new black uniform in their giant kitchen.
LACTARIUS
INDIGO
Camille found an
unusual mushroom while walking in the woods with Jason in search of a Fringe
Tree. It took Bob a few minutes to identify it as a Blue Milky. When
we touched the mushroom, it left behind a blue liquid.
NEW
NEIGHBORS
Matt, Peter and
Jean have moved into David’s house and dropped by to meet Spot one evening.
HOME GROWN
Bob cradles the
first cantaloupe to come from his own garden. Cantaloupe has long been his
favorite fruit but he’s never grown one of his own before.
THIS MONTH’S QUOTES:
“What is common to the
greatest number gets the least amount of care. Men pay most attention to what is
their own; they care less for what is common; or at any rate they care for it
only to the extent to which each is individually concerned. Even when there is
no other cause for inattention, men are more prone to neglect their duty when
they think that another is attending to it” – Aristotle
“Another flaw in the human
character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do
maintenance.” – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
“Although nuclear power has
been getting some press attention as an alternative to fossil fuels, electricity
from nuclear power is costly. If utilities pay the full costs of nuclear
waste disposal, of insurance against an accident, and of decommissioning plants
that are worn out, the expense of nuclear power will take it out of the
running.” – Lester R. Brown from Plan B 2.0
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