Farm share, week 3, and a book
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magidStill very green, but not all leaves!
As mentioned, I'm away for Shabbat. The lettuce will go with me. The current plan is to sautee the turnip greens, beet greens, and chard with some onion and garlic, then freeze them. If I don't eat the carrots out of hand, perhaps sautee them with the beets and some interesting seasoning or other (there's not enough to make it worth roasting, though I adore roasted beets). Likely the summer squashes will be sauteed with scallions and/or garlic scapes.
I picked up Looking for the Mahdi (N. Lee Wood) almost at random at the MIT SF library. It's of the "near-future with certain kinds of new technology" sub-genre, and much more a political thriller than I'd guessed when I started, with so many possible sides that I started getting a bit lost in the political wrangling. Still, surprisingly appealing to me, a lot of that having to do with how Muslim-focused it is. It's mostly set in a fictional poor, Middle Eastern country with fundamentalist morals police. The politics and the religion are indivisibly intertwined, in ways that are rarely depicted in science fiction (Yes, yes, The Sparrow, a few others. But on the whole, religion is not dealt with seriously, usually left out, presumably because people don't hold strong religious beliefs, if they have any at all.).
I found some of the political things eerie to read about, even knowing that the 1996 publication date meant that the first Gulf War and the 1993 WTC bombing had already happened. But what got me truly hooked was how the moderates managed to get control of a situation rapidly spinning out of control with intelligence and counter-intelligence, and wind towards a conclusion that had the seeds for peace throughout the region, including Israel. I know it's an unlikely scenario, with Muslims switching from armed to economic jihad, and declaring Israel the Jewish millet, owing tithes to the Muslim majority in the region... taken in kind, in the form of military protection. I know, soooo improbable. But the more that's written espousing peace, in whatever genre, the more likely it feels that peace might actually come.
- a head of lettuce (I chose a darkly purple one)
- a bunch of cilantro or dill (I'm away for Shabbat, so I happily gave my cilantro to some passersby rather than getting dill that might sit until compost)
- a small handful of garlic scapes
- a summer squash
- two zucchinis
- a third of a pound of carrots
- a bunch of cute little beets with greens
- a bunch of Hakurei turnips with greens
- a bunch of multi-colored chard
- a bunch of wonderfully thin scallions
As mentioned, I'm away for Shabbat. The lettuce will go with me. The current plan is to sautee the turnip greens, beet greens, and chard with some onion and garlic, then freeze them. If I don't eat the carrots out of hand, perhaps sautee them with the beets and some interesting seasoning or other (there's not enough to make it worth roasting, though I adore roasted beets). Likely the summer squashes will be sauteed with scallions and/or garlic scapes.
I picked up Looking for the Mahdi (N. Lee Wood) almost at random at the MIT SF library. It's of the "near-future with certain kinds of new technology" sub-genre, and much more a political thriller than I'd guessed when I started, with so many possible sides that I started getting a bit lost in the political wrangling. Still, surprisingly appealing to me, a lot of that having to do with how Muslim-focused it is. It's mostly set in a fictional poor, Middle Eastern country with fundamentalist morals police. The politics and the religion are indivisibly intertwined, in ways that are rarely depicted in science fiction (Yes, yes, The Sparrow, a few others. But on the whole, religion is not dealt with seriously, usually left out, presumably because people don't hold strong religious beliefs, if they have any at all.).
I found some of the political things eerie to read about, even knowing that the 1996 publication date meant that the first Gulf War and the 1993 WTC bombing had already happened. But what got me truly hooked was how the moderates managed to get control of a situation rapidly spinning out of control with intelligence and counter-intelligence, and wind towards a conclusion that had the seeds for peace throughout the region, including Israel. I know it's an unlikely scenario, with Muslims switching from armed to economic jihad, and declaring Israel the Jewish millet, owing tithes to the Muslim majority in the region... taken in kind, in the form of military protection. I know, soooo improbable. But the more that's written espousing peace, in whatever genre, the more likely it feels that peace might actually come.
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Date: 2008-06-26 01:33 am (UTC)Of course, you could have gotten dill and either frozen or dried it.
Your plans for the bounty sound good.
I hope you and your lettuce enjoy your Shabbat away!