Today’s family lunch: tuna fish sandwiches on fresh bread with homemade salt brine pickles*, orange and purple carrots* (pickling cukes and carrots from our CSA), sho-yu tomago* (soy sauce eggs), and Lay’s potato chips.
We were calling this a “Haunted Lunch” because of the orange-and-purple carrots and the “shriveled rotten eyes” (olives). And the “dinosaur eggs” and the tuna fish that “died by being pushed down the steps in an old spooky castle”. As you can see not all our jokes were relevant to Halloween, but it had Phoenix, her girlfriend S., Ralph and I laughing.
But Nels didn’t appreciate the “Haunted Lunch” theme and complained louder and louder about our jokes (such as they were) until he finally silently stood up and went in his room and then I heard him crying. We apologized, coaxed him back and promised it was just a regular lunch at which point he felt much better. Oh and you should hear how he says the word “lunch”. It makes me happier than just about anything.
Today I got back to some stitching and (my least favorite sew-work) mending and jeans-hemming. The second I get back there or warm the room up for use my goddamned CLOWDER is back there rolling on my feet or love-climbing up my leg (ouch!) or sleeping so soundly it looks like they’ve died:
“Fuck you, bro.”
Oh by the way, this particular individual I believe is responsible for giving both my kids ringworm. Lovely, huh?
” tuna fish that “died by being pushed down the steps in an old spooky castleâ€.”
Love this. It sounds like something my kids would say, or something my brothers and I would have said as kids.
@Jen
I know, right? It made us all giggle. The imagination comes up with silly and fun stuff.
let me be the first to say, those are some beautiful carrots!
@luckychrm
I know – so lovely! I thought they tasted lovely too. Not as sweet as the orange carrots from the farm, but so good and so much better than anything one gets at the store!
WTF am I going to do with one million pounds of parsnips? (This week’s and last week’s). I think I’ll roast them OR put them in mashed potatoes. Prolly the latter. I’m not really that much of a roast vegetable person.
I like to do the mash 🙂 Parsnips, carrots, and loads of fresh garlic by the clove, all simmered together and then mashed with some creamy substance (goat milk here) and topped with fresh dill.
@luckychrm Yeah, that sounds really good. So when are you coming over for dinner, I’ll make it! (& grilled tri-tip steak, & a beet salad, &, &…)