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Foto Friday: belated documentation of birthday awesomeness 16 September 2011 9:20 am

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My super-awesome 32nd birthday, let me show you it!

Firstly, you may have heard about the hurricane that was due in town that day? I know, it ended up getting downgraded to a tropical storm, but I think on the whole New York City did a good job of responding to this weather event, unlike during Snowpocalypse 2010 (Snowmageddon? I don’t remember what it was called). In any case, the impending storm doom that ended up flooding Vermont (?!) precluded a party, since everybody was supposed to be staying indoors all day (even if it did end up clear and actually kind of lovely). Meanwhile, there was the problem of avoiding caffeine withdrawal headaches in the event of power outages….

Cold-brew coffee to the rescue!

Yay cold brew! Also yay nifty double-walled glasses Peter got for his birthday (thanks Lois!)

If I had known how fun and easy cold-brewing coffee is, I would have started doing it years ago, so it’s probably a good thing I didn’t find out until last month because my caffeine addiction is bad enough already, thanks. Anyway, (more…)

Thank you Thursday: Lentil salad with feta. 20 May 2010 9:21 pm

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Let me show you a little composition I like to call: “Lentil Salad, F*** Yeah!”

That’s my favorite lentil salad, on a bed of green leaf lettuce and topped with feta cheese. Not just any feta, though, but the nigh-legendary Bulgarian feta. Let me explain. (more…)

Gastro-culinary highlights of the long weekend. 23 September 2009 3:33 pm

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For the purposes of this post, the long weekend ended about fifteen minutes ago, because I’m a big slacker. Peter and I got up unholy early on Friday morning for a visit to the not-yet-frozen north, by which I mean his parents’ cabin on Osgood Pond, which is in Paul Smiths, NY, outside Saranac Lake, not far past Lake Placid — and if you haven’t heard of any of those places, that’s okay: the whole point of this expedition was to hang out with friends on a nice mini-vacation in the middle of nowhere.

In my opinion, we succeeded mightily. There was paddling — both canoe and Adirondack guide boat — and relaxing in front of a wood-burning stove, both with and without games. Also there was tasty food. (more…)

Follow-up to the last post: photos and more. 26 August 2009 8:47 am

Posted by Tracy in : oregon,pictures,random,seasonality,summer , 2 comments

If you made it through all nigh-1500 words of yesterday’s post, thank you and congratulations. (Everybody else, go ahead and just scroll through to the end to see what I’m writing about today.) Remember that dinner I mentioned in the last paragraph? Okay, I mentioned a lot of meals there, but only one of them made it into pictures:

“…the cherry tomatoes lasted until Sunday’s light supper of raw veggies, cheese, and crackers.”

Aren’t those tomatoes gorgeous? Their color (more…)

Saying goodbye to Eugene. 25 August 2009 7:08 am

Posted by Tracy in : cooking,CSA,eating,eggs,eugene,events,fangirl,friends,fun,garden,good news,local food,meat,Morning Glory,news,not even vegetarian,nyc,oregon,seasonality,summer,writing , 2 comments

I wrote this piece for an assignment on personal essays and memoir in my food writing class last fall, and it isn’t exactly true anymore — I have had a few more last Saturdays in Eugene since the one described here. It’s still emotionally true, perhaps more so than ever now, and it’s appropriate, since Peter is saying goodbye to Eugene this morning and coming home to New York City, at last, with his shield, not on it. Congratulations, love. See you soon.

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My last Saturday in Eugene, Oregon was pretty well perfect, thanks to a chance encounter with some carrot greens. I spotted them in the totebags of a pedestrian on the bike path south of the Lane County fairgrounds. She was on her way home from Saturday Market; Peter and I were riding our tandem to coffee after a morning of blueberry picking with Kevin and Laurel. It was August second, and thanks to those greens, I remembered it was our last chance to go to Saturday Market before our move. So after coffee, pastries, and a stumper of a New York Times crossword puzzle, we said goodbye to Kevin and Laurel. They rode south, and Peter and I went north, to our last Saturday Market for a long time. (more…)