Thursday, November 5, 2009

A Menu of Sorts and the Smell of Italy's Delightful Halitosis





Today, as with every Thursday, we received our CSA box. That's Community Supported Agriculture, for any of those not in the sustainable know. Anyway, it is great. Every week, we get several vegetables and fruits, anything from potatoes, cabbage, avocados, lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, apples, mangoes, pears, squash, etc. A list of this week's array is included with your order as well as a vegetable specific recipe list. I have included a scan of this week's recipes, which all seem particularly delicious. Many of the delectables we get are from the farm (Full Circle Farm, to be precise) but they supplement from other farms for what they may lack, hence the availability of avocados and mangoes.
But, I am creating none of these things tonight, but rather a series of pizzas made atop semolina and cornmeal laced dough (I also snuck [sneaked? really?] some wheat bran in there). The dough is rising, as we speak, towards pillowy mountainous proportions. It smells of yeast, ferment. Soon enough my home will be thick with the smell of roasted garlic, the kind which you can squeeze from the papery outsides like toothpaste.
Until that time, I will speak to the merits of one of my newly found internet joys. BookMooch is a site through which, when signed up, one can give and get books based upon a system that resembles the westernized idea of Karma. You create an inventory list. This is a list of books that you have which you are willing to send randomly across the country (or further). For simply putting these titles on your list, you receive one/tenth of a point per book. Further, when said books are sent, you get one point per volume (unless sending to another country, in which case you get two points). Your other list will be your wishlist. Mine is rather long. When a book on your wishlist becomes available, you will be notified and you can request it sent to you for the charge of one point (or two if out of country). See? Easy. I have sent and received several books. The only money involved is that which you spend to send the books, and media mail is cheap. All my books have come in good condition. Go here for this:
BOOK MOOCH!

OK, hope all enjoy the recipes.

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