I got my share of our farm share last night, and made a tasty dinner and a (hopefully) good lunch for today.
To accompany my dinner, I boiled the carrots in a enough water to almost cover them, salt & pepper, a little bit of sugar, and a little bit of butter – just wait for the water to all evaporate. Sooooo good.
Lunch today is a reconstruction of a salad Anna made a few months back – sugar snap peas & radishes in a dressing of rice wine vinegar and toasted sesame oil, sprinkled with sesame seeds. (Now that I’m online, it looks like the salad she made might have been this one.)
The farm share (through Parker Farms) is definitely a good deal – fresh veggies for only $5 a week!
posted June 24, 2004 – 6:19 am
I got pictures back from the weekend, and the “at first glance” review of the new lens is mostly positive. The longer distance photos I took came out quite well, and a few of the macro photos look good. The rest of the macro photos were pretty blurry, either because of the very short depth of field (making it hard to get exactly what you want in good focus) or because of vibration due to the shutter/mirror. I’ll use a tripod, a steadier hand, or faster shutter speed in the future.
While at the camera store, I picked up some film for my old Rolleiflex Standard, a camera my grandfather gave me about 10 years ago. It’s a beautiful camera, and considering it was made in the 1930’s, it’s impressive that it’s still in working order. I’ll let you know how my foray into the world of medium-format (bigger than 35mm film) black and white photography goes.
posted June 23, 2004 – 8:57 am
I had a good, busy weekend:
I went up to Keene, NH on Friday to visit a friend and do some hiking. While Keene isn’t exactly a hotbed of activity (especially during the summer, when all the college students are away), it was a nice enough visit.
We hiked Mt. Monadnock (which, according to this site, has surpassed Mt. Fuji as the most climbed mountain in the world) on Saturday morning. The weather wasn’t great, but that kept most other folks off the mountain; we pretty much had the trail to ourselves. By the time we reached the summit, it had cleared enough that we could see some surrounding towns and countryside, and it was sunny & hot when we got back to the car.
The hike was a good opportunity to try out my new camera lens. Ever since my trip to the Olympic Peninsula last summer, I’ve been wanting another lens for the camera – lack of zoom on the old lens meant bald eagles were just specks in the photos I took. The new lens zooms in much more than my other one (70-300mm vs. the old 35-80mm), but that makes it much bigger (physically), much more succeptible to camera shake, and it requires a good deal more light to get a good photo. It also has a pretty impressive macro mode that lets you get amazingly close shots. We’ll see how the pictures came out.
I saw Dodgeball on Saturday night. Stupid as parts of it were, there were some real high points, including a fantastic sequence on the (fictional) ESPN 8 and a spectacular cameo appearance by Lance Armstrong. Caleb and crew will be interested to learn David Hasselhoff also has a cameo role.
Yesterday, we made a polenta pound cake from Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone to accompany some fresh strawberries – it turned out very well!
posted June 21, 2004 – 6:28 am
I was introduced last night to Bottega Fiorentina, in Coolidge Corner. What a cute little cafe! They’ve got great pasta dishes (and good panini, I hear) for cheap and a friendly, homey Italian feel that we had a hard time finding in Italy. My friend had the gnocchi (perfect) and I had the spaghetti carbonara (also perfect). Definitely check it out if you’re in their neighborhood.
posted June 17, 2004 – 5:53 am
In my tired, hazy state this morning, I mis-read not one but two signs on vehicles this morning. The first was an “honor student” bumper sticker that I thought read “My child was honor student of middle earth.” The other was a truck for the “Friend Box Company, Inc.” that I thought read “Fried Box Company.” Mmmm… fried boxes.
Love Child had a great game last night against Hucky McThrowandcatch (great name, eh?). It was a close one, and Hucky won in the end, but we all had a good time. We’ve got another game this week on Thursday, against Swingers.
posted June 16, 2004 – 5:58 am