Hither and thither, but hopefully not yawn

Last night I got to make another pysanky at Cthulhia's. I was remembering a beautiful huge mizrach [1] Scott made (with magic markers), but his piece was beautiful, and this egg needs more on it than I put. Not horrible, just not a useful sort of design for this medium. *sigh* OK, cross-hatching next time, really. (The other egg from the time before got the wax melted off, and I like how the red looks rather tie-dyed.)

And as I was leaving I got to see Prog (has it been *that* many months since we've seen each other?), which was cool. Always good to hear how my breakfast relates to Faust... (why can't I remember what I deemed "the phrase of the day"? Prog?)

The vast quantity of leftovers has let me have pretty nice meals without much work. Yesterday's breakfast involved mixing the spicy eggplant with the roasted potatoes onions and garlic. Today's included an artichoke, and water crackers topped with chavrie (mild goat cheese) and tomato. Yum.

[1] A mizrach (lit. "east") is a thing, usually a pretty thing, hung on a wall in some Jewish homes to indicate which way is east, which is the direction to face for prayer (well, really, towards Israel/Jerusalem, but Jews seem mostly to have moved west of Israel...). I've seen ones that were collages, or needlepoint, or magic marker. Pretty much any design, as long as the word "mizrach" (well, in Hebrew letters, usually), though some incorporate Jerusalem.

16th week of veggies

In the box were:

2 knobs of celeriac, one large, one small (pretty sure it's celeriac)
8 small to medium red-skinned potatoes
3 regular eggplant and one dark purple Asian eggplant
2 winter squashes: coloring like a delicata, but they're shaped more like a squat cylinder than a long thin one [sweet dumpling squashes?]
4 medium tomatoes
4 bell peppers, one yellow, one orange, 2 partly-green-ripening-to-orangey red
a sweet red pepper that isn't a bell pepper
a bunch of bright lights Swiss chard
a big bunch of mixed long-stemmed salad greens
a head of radicchio
and, from a bucket for the taking, a couple of handfuls of small thin red hot peppers, with a couple of ripe cherry peppers as well

That last makes me think of Queue's spicy jams... I may have to make a batch (when, I'm not sure).

This week's newsletter is full of people's letters in favor of keeping the box delivery program. It may well survive. Hooray.
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