I had to go to four stores today to find quart-sized canning jars. There's a plethora of plastic for sale, but glass, alas, is elusive. There was no presumption this morning of a pickle-packing party but at the farmer's market my olifactory senses were assailed with the heady aroma of fresh dill, and seeing that I'll be in Ireland the first three weeks of September, I thought it was high time to gather up a bushel of pickling cukes and get busy. And then there is the aperitif made with white wine, vodka, sugar, vanilla bean and fresh fruit that calls out to be stashed away in jars for a month or so.... It's peach season, and blackberries are beginning to hang in lush clumps at the side of nearly every road....
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In other news, I caved to Modern Technology today and became the owner of an iPhone 4. Holy guacamole!!!! There's a midget computer in my pocket which knows a helluva a lot more than I did when I graduated from college. Just sayin'.
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It was 93 degrees today, zero humidity, just lovely smooth heat.
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About the iPhone .. totally awesome thingee (now get hooked on the app Angry Birds). About pickling, shades of last night and a few cocktails. About the heat - we're watching the ferns shrivel.
Here in France the whole business of preserving is 'normal'. As such, bottling equipment is sold EVERYWHERE.
I wouldn't know what an iPhone 4 was if you hit me with it.
Love to have the full recipe for the aperitif.
Smooth heat...love that.
Will, ah, yes, pickling takes many forms...
Cro, hrrrmmph. I think the French invented it.
Dumdad, there's probably an app for that.
Jacqueline, I'll post it here soon, I promise!
Central Market has them. My tomatoes are turning red. Hurray~~~~~!
RK, you are a lucky blogger-poet! My tomato "crop" this year is a near total failure. I harvested one on Friday, and if I'm incredibly fortunate I may get two or three more before the season turns....
Stuff is curious isn't it. Today my daughter and her husband sold the proceeds of eight years of marriage and living in Canada. They are moving to another country and it's easier, cheaper, simpler to start over than move it all.
She has moved countries a couple of times before, but today she was really upset because she felt they had really had a life here.
Now I know in no time they will be enjoying the process of acquiring new stuff, so I guess the separation from things is really just metaphorical of change...and that's the difficult part.
Great that you got an iPhone 4. My daughter has one and she loves it. So nice that you'll be going to Ireland. Sounds exciting!
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