Gastronomic Happiness
I recently realized that it's been awhile since I last featured any food on the blog, and that's just a cryin' shame, so today I'm going to mend my ways and show what's been making me happy lately:
It's incredibly satisfying to walk about five steps out your back door to pluck some mixed greens or cut a few heads of bok choy and eat them within the hour. Having too much spinach isn't a bad inconvience to deal with, either.
Give us a few months and we'll have some tomatoes, pole beans, and potatoes to show, too.
Yesterday morning I was feeling abnormally bright-eyed and bushy-tailed so I tried a new recipe from one of the Bon Appetit magazines I've been stealing from my mom while she's been galavanting in China for the last year. Ricotta pancakes. Verdict: pretty good, but not necessarily worth all the extra trouble of separating eggs, folding in egg whites, etc.
Later in the day we went to pick cherries...
Where the branches were so overloaded that some of them touched the ground. It was a perfect beautiful, slightly breezy first day of summer and we came home with 2 overflowing bucketfuls of perfect cherries. I don't know what could be any better than that.
Don't you just love summer?
