My friend Judith sent me this link http://www.npr.org/programs/wesat/features/2002/apr/loaf/
to a story about prison food. If you misbehave badly enough, at Baltimore's Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center, you will be fed this loaf, which contains carrots, spinach, beans, tomato paste, and whole wheat bread among other things. With the bread, it reminds me of recipes for puddings of various kinds, except that there are no eggs. I suspect that the problem is not the vegetables, but the lack of moisture.
I am trying to be good about eating my vegetables. For lunch I had spinach, romaine, basil, nasturtium and sorrel leaves with sliced tomato, olives, and feta cheese. The nasturtiums are a first this year--they look like tiny lily pads, and taste like pepper. I recommend them. I also ate a cold slice of potato.
Sorrel is an easy to grow plant that behaves like lettuce, bolting, but the leaves do not become bitter. Instead they have a lovely, sour, lemony taste. For thirty-five years I have contemplated Julia Child's recipe for sorrel soup. Perhaps now is my opportunity.
As to the mouldering beets: someone took one out of the drawer, to call my attention to it, so I sliced the mouldy end off, and did the same to the second beet. Now they are both sitting on the cutting board. But, it's too hot to cook them.
Tomorrow I'll report on my investigation into why the word vegetable should mean both to quicken and to exist like a couch potato.
to a story about prison food. If you misbehave badly enough, at Baltimore's Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center, you will be fed this loaf, which contains carrots, spinach, beans, tomato paste, and whole wheat bread among other things. With the bread, it reminds me of recipes for puddings of various kinds, except that there are no eggs. I suspect that the problem is not the vegetables, but the lack of moisture.
I am trying to be good about eating my vegetables. For lunch I had spinach, romaine, basil, nasturtium and sorrel leaves with sliced tomato, olives, and feta cheese. The nasturtiums are a first this year--they look like tiny lily pads, and taste like pepper. I recommend them. I also ate a cold slice of potato.
Sorrel is an easy to grow plant that behaves like lettuce, bolting, but the leaves do not become bitter. Instead they have a lovely, sour, lemony taste. For thirty-five years I have contemplated Julia Child's recipe for sorrel soup. Perhaps now is my opportunity.
As to the mouldering beets: someone took one out of the drawer, to call my attention to it, so I sliced the mouldy end off, and did the same to the second beet. Now they are both sitting on the cutting board. But, it's too hot to cook them.
Tomorrow I'll report on my investigation into why the word vegetable should mean both to quicken and to exist like a couch potato.
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