I think I used to be more interesting than I am now, or more diligent. Or maybe I just had more time.
Case in point – here’s this year’s First Weekend of Fall post, and a prior, same title, from 2012. I was cooking more, School Woods was still up and running, celebrating 6 years, but generally just seems like I had more food-related side gigs going on. I browsed around some nearby posts from October 2012, and I helped Terese Allen with a cooking demo at Fermentation Fest, and I made some baked goods for a baby shower one of the Library School professors was going to (now we’re the iSchool, and she’s the Director), and there’re even some pics in there of a brunch at School Woods, and I guest chefed at Slow Food UW. And I helped promote & sell the Local Foods Journal. My fave is 2014’s cheese edition.
Now it’s just work, work, work.
Although – this weekend I went out to Tipi Produce for the gleaning party and pumpkin pick. I cut a big canvas bag full of green kale, that I chopped and blanched and froze on Monday night, for making spanakopita – actually kaleakopita – for the cookie party. When it was all processed I weighed it and had 20 oz. – so the same as two 10-oz. boxes of Birds Eye frozen spinach, and oddly satisfying that I picked it myself. I also harvested some purple Russian kale, and some that I think is Siberian kale. The Siberian went into Thai squash curry tonight, and the Russian I think will go into a gratin with the lovely tender collards I picked too. I also got a pumpkin, and got my shirt printed. I forgot to take a plain t-shirt for printing, but fortunately I was wearing an old fave shirt under a fleece, and after I was done walking around in the chilly wet fields, I slipped it out from under the fleece, to be printed.
When I got home, I had a kind of scrambler with egg and potato and Tipi peppers, and my homemade bread, toasted, and half a pear and a pumpkin (squash) muffin. I put dried cranberries and chocolate chips into this batch.
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