they're like fun size cabbages.
Sunday, January 24, 2010 Anna's grocery list written after the fact offers a quick dose of happiness. Her infectious enthusiasm always makes me want to cook and the way I eat has been deeply, irreversibly influenced by her and by Aimee. One day, I think they'll win over an exceptionally large group of admirers, starting with their stomachs. A process that's already started.
A couple hours after midnight on January 1st, I asked Anna what her New Year's Resolution was and she took a drag of her cigarette and said, "It's basically to be more seasonal" in this completely earnest way and I cracked up. I couldn't have made up a more Anna answer; it was almost satirical.
I'd share with you my grocery list, but while Anna is making things like "tender-cooked kale," I'm surviving on egg sandwiches and the fun size candy bars in the office kitchen. So, for today, I'll refer you to Anna:
So, the yogurt: tangy, sweet, and pure, with a pleasant, perfect viscousness to sub in as milk for someone who likes cereal with their yogurt. Add a little honey and it just may sum up to the idyllic flavor you imagined the first time you heard “buttermilk” as a kid.
Remember what it was like to hear words for food for the first time? This was a big deal to me growing up, and I love that idea of imagining a flavor, the way hearing the name of a food for the first time creates this perfect fantasized meeting of the senses. I used to play make-believe with food, hosting an elaborate cocktail party in my dad's living room, holding a glass of black cherry soda and pretending it was wine. Just hearing the word wine transported me. I remember hearing "chocolate truffle" for the first time and instantly adding that to my repertoire, what all of the fake grown-ups at my party were having with their wine.
I remember "buttermilk", too. I remember "chickpea." I remember "rugelach" and "arugula" and when I first realized they weren't the same. And I remember 16-year-old Aimee and Anna coming home with vegetables I'd never heard of, gathered on their independent grocery trips. I was disinterested at the time, because why eat "arugelach" when you can eat frozen burritos?
Aimee and Anna still eat things I've never heard of, but I'm less disinterested now. In fact, after reading Anna's list last night, I abandoned my Sunday egg sandwich for the first weekend in recent memory and made a lunch of Brussels sprouts with pepper-crusted bacon. Tons of garlic, caramelized onion, red chile flakes. Followed by fig cookies and two cups of strong coffee. I'll be honest, though. I could go for a fun size Crunch bar.
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by the way... because you promised they were easy to make, i made brussel sprouts the other night. it was a delicious success. pete said "i have to tell my mom about these" as if they were a whole new food, recently discovered.
I am so upset!
My Scrump RSS feed HAS NOT been keeping me updated.
In fact, as I realized in horror tonight, the last entry it managed to stream was "24 strawberries & bananas in a bowl". I used to check Scrump obsessively, and then I realized that it was listed on my stream list thing in Google Reader, so I just sat back and waited for Scrump to come to me.
It's a good thing I got so impatient-- consider how illogically impatient I was, if I thought that it really was streaming, to check it myself-- because the RSS thing is fucking fucked.
Anyway, sorry I haven't been commenting, especially as this entry is so, so heartwarming!
Also, I am happy to say that my seasonality thing is going really well.
I figured it would be an easy enough transition; in fact, it is all too easy-- tonight on the train I was happily pondering my next farmer's market trip, and thinking how I couldn't let myself get carried away. I started listing off things I wanted to make, trying to prioritize.
Now, Molly Wizenburg just wrote up celeriac in Bon Appetit, which reminded me of how it's a vegetable I am curious of and have still never tried. So, basically, when reviewing my mental 'to make' list I started to panic about celery root's season coming to a close. I actually thought, "I'm running out of time!!" about celeriac.
Ok, love you.
Anna, I'm the one who's fucking fucked. I think probably what happened is when Scrump was down and I moved it to a different server and other boring things related to computers, something got fucking fucked up and now you need to subscribe to the RSS feed all over again. And then Scrump will come to you like so many farmer's market daydreams.
What person ISN'T thinking they're running out of time about celeriac? Just kidding, you're real weird, but the good news is that celeriac is an excellent word and sounds like a disease. And I love you, too!
Celeriac looks like a disease, too! Check it out:
http://blog.mrandmrssmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/celeriac.jpg
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