It hit 100 at the SB airport on monday. Luckily we had a watermelon in the fridge. And wet washcloths...
Bootleg series 9 would seem to be pretty epic. Demos recorded between '62 and '64. These guys are streaming snippets of the songs temporarily. It's nice. Girl from the North Country might be my favorite Dylan song.
When you freeze and then thaw bananas they are essentially liquid. So I followed the sour skons technique, soaking oats in banana for a couple of days, added some yogurt cause total biomass was low, salt, flour to thicken, baking soda. Yum.
I stole these from my friend Casey's fb page. Different socio-economic classes showing their love of bikes, I like that. Right now there are 3 rideable bikes and 1 frame inside my apartment, and 2 rideable bikes and 1 frame outside. And I have my eye on a frame on ebay right now.
He's got one of their 50 greatest voices. The full 20min long interview that is available off of the same link is worth it. And they have ~50min of a Band of Joy show from the link. The song Patty Griffin does from her album Downtown Church is nice. Couple of Zeppelin tunes. Couple of tunes from the Band of Joy record. Here are some youtube vids from the show NPR had audio for.
This pic was in the latest Surfer's Path 'Monday Morning Wave' mass email. The backwash-exploded tube behind the guy riding is pretty epic. By Chris Burkard.
Not great pics, but tasty. Initially I wasn't in the mood to cook that night, was just going to eat cold rice and yogurt. But ended up sauteing some garlic and peppers, and decided to pull some machaca (shredded/salted/dried meat or fish) out of the freezer. I bought it at the corner store in San Ignacio, Baja California Sur 3-4 years ago, but it's dried beef in the freezer, so no worries. So added machaca and a tomato or two and got a nice little beefy tomato-y gravy going on. Warmed rice in the pan, too.
On the machaca tip, in the winter of '98-'99 my brother and I drove about 1/3 of the Baja 1000 course from that November and had burritos de machaca de manta raya at the end of a long day in the middle of nowhere -- a tiny little restaurant next to Mission San Javier. A very memorable meal. Manta ray machaca is tastier than beef machaca when prepared by someone who knows what they are doing, but I haven't had as good luck cooking it myself.
Bitchin' story about a new book about big waves, with a Laird Hamilton interview thrown in, too. Nice to see a pic of Ryan Hardy at Pipe on NPR!
rice, beans, tomato/orange bell pepper/cilantro, chipotle salsa, blurred Bee hands
So good. Crust was from Joy of Cooking, with butter instead of shortening. Apples from the mini-donkey farm. Standard filling: apples, lemon juice, cinnamon, lot of nutmeg, sugar, cornstarch. Deep dish casserole cause I didn't have a regular pie pan. Served with Stonyfield organic vanilla ice cream.
Zeyore
"Be the ball"
joy/fear
Interesting hypothetical question on the OnionAV today about where and when you would like to travel to. Me. J-Bay (surf spot in South Africa), anytime before the present. Ideally a long time ago when there would have been critters to see, too.
This batch isn't quite as good as the last one, but it's definitely better/different from regular stewed rhubarb. I have a thing about wasting food. Often I'll make things just so I can make something else. For instance, if I want to cook beans I'll cook pasta one night, soak the beans in that pasta water overnight, and cook them the next day. Is pasta water food? You bet. In this case, I had canned some loquat 'jelly' that was closer to syrup earlier this summer. Yesterday I cooked it down to true jelly, canned it, and then cooked rhubarb in the pot with the loquat residue. This 'residue' which had been cooked to 220-something degrees is a kind of hard candy, and the rhubarb cooks up differently in that kind of sugar, even if you have to add more regular sugar, which you do, cause it's rhubarb.... So. If you slice the rhubarb into long chunks, 2" or so, and stir minimally while cooking, you almost get candied chunks of rhubarb (as opposed to a stewed mush). As previously mentioned it worked even better the first time, I (accidentally, on purpose) air dried the rhubarb for a couple of days before cooking it so water content was lower, which allowed the rhubarb to hold it's shape better. Good.
very light dinner: lettuce, yellow taxi heirloom, pimiento pepper, nuoc cham, peanut sauce.
Interesting post. I've seen alot of them, the 2 Werner Herzog movies, the one about Fitzroy that you can buy from Patagonia, Riding Giants, Food Inc., Inconvenient Truth, Earth (the mini-series version), Endless Summer, Koyaanisqatsi. Good list.
I loved the series she did last week. 5 stories were played on Morning Edition, but they don't appear to be archived in the normal way. This is the official website for the trip. Here are some behind the scenes stories. Blog posts: intro, day1, day2, day3.1, day3.2, day4.1, day4.2, day5. And here is a follow-up interview.
This morning On Point did a rebroadcast of an interview from last year with John Irving. Most of the callers asked about or mentioned A Prayer for Owen Meany, which is my co-favorite book of all time (Sometimes a Great Notion being the other). The interview was slightly ornery but well worth a listen.
Great one this week. Listened on my new Sony SW7600GR radio (gonna be the bomb in Baja) at the garden with the Bee, eating bagel + cream cheese + lox + cuke + brandywine tomato. Epic. Act two was particularly good, but a very strong show all around.
My camera battery died after this first pic. Which is a pic of the trunk of the rental car that we got after the Peanut died. It's a little ghoulish really, having a glow-in-the-dark pull tab so you can escape from the car if someone kidnaps you and puts you in the trunk..... Eek.
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