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noodlepus, or, how to fox up your chicken soup

May 30, 2011

Someone made a batch of chx soup at the farm Friday, but put off the noodlemaking because he wanted to use a mixer, and didn’t have one there. He finally got around to the noodlieoodlieoodles last night, and started running them through the marcato lasagna attachment, which cuts nice, inch-and-a-half wide noodles with a scalloped [...]

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thursday I will become a farmer

October 13, 2010

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nutmeg and mace: myristica fragrans

September 9, 2010

I just learned what fresh nutmeg looks like. Here are some visuals to aid in blowing your mind: What you buy in the store – if it isn’t ground – is the dried seed (which is inside the brown part inside the red web). But I don’t care about the spice any more. I just [...]

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sorry toots, me and cornus kousa got a little thing going.

September 3, 2010

Mercy child, the geometry of these fruits has got me all sortsa intuned to a spilling-seed-into-the-soil, last-month-of-the-summer last-ditch effort at monoecious reproduction. So hot and yet so smart: so warm and curved and beckoning and still so cold and sharp and hard. Gracious y’all, the intensity of the ambiguity that this fruit pops and locks [...]

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the impossible mangosteen (garcinia mangostana)

September 3, 2010

My two new mangosteen trees arrived from Hawaii today, looking wonderful. I had pretty low expectations for the size and health of the plants after all my searching and researching. Not only are they nigh-impossible to grow in the US, it seems they’re also pretty hard to come by. Most of the tropical fruit tree [...]

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why owning a red camaro is so worth it

July 3, 2010

The cost of developing and carrying the weapon, Dr. Emlen inferred, was outweighed by the greater access to females gained by owning some prized possession like a food source or tunnel where females could lay eggs. – nytimes

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pay-per-view

May 16, 2010

More flagrant than ever before, the garden this spring has been one raucous and debauched carnival of lawless bacchanalian flower sex. Someone asked me how the yard was doing a couple of weeks ago, and the only adjective I could think of to describe it was pay-per-view. That the bees are back doesn’t hurt: there [...]

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eremurus like octopus

December 15, 2009

I am beginning to think that the octopus is my familiar, though I am not sure we’re supposed to enjoy our familiars as cuisine as much as I love mine. Regardless, I like its style. I like the cut of its jib. I like its inky defense mechanism and its stink-eyed seafloor stare. I like [...]

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Cormac McCarthy’s Typewriter

December 4, 2009

Continuing with the spasm of materialism inhabiting this e-ournal* for the last couple of weeks (it’s the holidays, bub), consider Cormac McCarthy’s Olivetti for auction this friday at Christie’s. I begged and begged Courtney to buy it for me but no dice. I don’t know what I’d do with it anyway except look at it [...]

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boundless wants

November 19, 2009

continuing in the vein of posting images of pretty things I want, stuff your eyeballs full of these babies: iwoodecodesign makes some badaxe sunglasses outta woot! They may set you back a pinch, but being all photosensitive like I am I think my doctor might deem them absolutely necessary! But here’s the rub: unless you [...]

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