Almost two years ago, I wrote a long blog post about some summer adventures – one in California and one in Des Moines, Iowa. Almost a week ago, I boarded a plane, dressed proudly in my ‘Des Moines Hell Yes‘ t-short that I had taken home from my last visit, and set off for another Iowa adventure. This time it was a celebration for the same dear friend I had gone to visit the first time. And it seems that every great celebration involves great cupcakes these days.
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A year and a half after being accepted to the program, Gavin has finally started the UCDavis BrewMaster Program. Which meant that we needed to get Gavin to Davis before it started two weeks ago. Since we never pass up a chance at an adventure, no matter how small, we planned a short, interesting road trip that would ultimately get us from Portland, OR to Davis, CA.
I got one little bitty flat, or whatever it’s called, of green onion starts in mid-summer. Two small planter boxes and a large pot later and I still had not planted them all (I believe I used the leftover starts in tuna). They grew into big, beautiful green stalks (I mean, just look at them, it’s a party in a box). But the point is I had a LOT, which worked out well because I happen to find them delicious and they’re just fine out there in the rain, each waiting to be picked and carried to its edible destiny. I couldn’t be happier about my surplus of green onions.
We had the pleasure of hosting a gaggle of our friends this last weekend for a fabulous Halloween party. Not only did we end up with the most impressive potluck one could hope to have, we also presented a very impressive array of libations for the party-goers. Aside from one pony keg of Lompoc’s C-Note, a great beer from a (very) local brewery, we produced all of these beverages ourselves with great care and anticipation. None of the night’s options lasted too long which led us to believe we had done well. Quite well.
Earlier this summer, I collected seeds and starts from a variety of places around my home in Portland, OR. But perhaps my favorite of those places was the Silverton Farmer’s Market in Silverton, OR – a town that holds a special place in my heart. Among the very few booths in Town Square Park on Saturday mornings, there was one that sold good-looking starts of all kinds… well, not of all kinds but somehow exactly what I was looking for every time and more. I visited them a few times and now have a lovely handful of veggies growing from their starts in my garden. One of the starts I brought home was Lemon Cucumber.
I work as a film workshop leader for Summer Drama Camps of uCamps, which is about as amazing as summer camp can get, and every year we create new, fantastic films with campers who choose to take our workshop(s). I just returned home a week ago and am once again very excited about what we did this year. So I thought I’d share one of these little gems with you.
About a month ago, I planted cilantro in a big Terra Cotta pot on my front stoop. Being a first time cilantro grower I was not completely sure what to expect, though I had ideas after reading reports from other cilantro gardeners. Those ideas proved reality when I came home from a long weekend and my cilantro had grown to a bundle of thick, two feet tall stalks with big leaves! Like many plants, you have to harvest cilantro often if you would like it to keep producing those tasty little leaves for you. So I needed something that would allow me to use up all those tall stalks at once before they flowered. The solution: cilantro pesto, something I’d been wanting to try for some time.
“It seems to me that our three most basic needs for food, security and love art so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love.” -M.L.K. Fisher
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*photo by my (very talented) friend, James De Leon
alright, i’m officially back. Not just back in the United States but back to more regular blogging habits. Now that I don’t have to find an internet cafe and pay for the use of a computer every time I want to get online. Which, I have to admit, is pretty great. Because I’m a little nerdy and I love the internet. But that should be obvious since I just mentioned my ‘blogging habits.’
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