Seed
August 19, 2005
Pick the fruit you like, and its seed is for the taking. Everyone does it. ‘Shake your moneymaker’ is the name of one of the fruits. Or maybe it was just moneymaker.
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Yurt and garden
August 13, 2005
My garden at three and a half weeks old, is thriving! My yurt, set up at the edge of a vineyard, with views into two river valleys and mountains on all sides, is now little more than a glorified bedroom, shouting distance from the ‘real house’ in town.
But in one week’s time a very special guest will arrive and we will among other things, live, and cook (!!!) at the yurt without the support of a proper kitchen. And because I am not a practical woman by nature, I have my heart set upon the notion that the yurt-cooking menu should consist primarily of food originating from my pre-pubescent garden. So I’m digging my toe in the dirt and wondering what kind of grits can a gal dish up using corn, tomatoes, several kinds of lettuce, rocket, chard, red chicory, mint, basil, sorrel, coreander, and everything but the squeal of a radish and a beet using nothing but a BBQ-for-one and an Occitanian 2-ring burner.
Fortunately, he’s a vegetarian.
images from t to b: author slash subsistence farmer surveys her harvest possibilities, yurt lighting, flashed-view from the foot of bed.
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Sushi Occitania
August 10, 2005
images from l to r: sushi occitania, messy kitchen, pantry chef making tomato chutney
It’s a chic-free zone and we’re not fussed about what we wear in the kitchen or anywhere else for that matter.
Sushi Occitania
yaki nori
brown rice prepared in fresh gazpacho (aka homegrown bloody mary mix)
courgette spaghettini
pesto
olives lucques
rosé (just a few drops to glue the nori shut)
Roll up the ingredients and eat. If you don’t have a sushi mat you can use a piece of baker’s parchment folded double. If you don’t have yaki nori, use barely blanched and wrung-out swiss chard as the outer leaf.
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