Nuked organic spinach with olive oil and salt.
Now that’s happiness.
Wonderful spinach, too: soft, moist and flavorful. Hard to believe it had been [flash-?]frozen. Another reason to *heart* Trader Joe’s, where we’ve started going for obscene amounts of food each time, since it’s all the way in Boston. The chest freezer was so, so worth it.
Reconnected with an old friend after a decade’s worth of silence, more or less imposed by me. It’s strange to be in that phase of the email exchange when you’ve already established that you had the right email address, but no substantive conversation has yet happened. I felt strongly about him, back when we were on the same continent and for a long while after. There are some things that I couldn’t take, and so I stopped writing letters; but the memory of him has stayed with me, vivid and inextricable and compelling and good.
And now we’re suspended: how have we both changed in each other’s eyes?
And how will I deal if the answer to either is “no change at all”?
March 10th, 2005 at 10:50 am
Mmm. I’ll have to check out the Trader Joe’s spinach. I’ve generally had good luck with them.
I love to steam spinach until it’s just a little past wilted and season with garlic and lemon juice and maybe a shake of Tamari. My favorite way to do this is by taking garlic cloves and slicing them semi-thin then cooking them until they are soft and adding them to the spinach.
Mmm. Might be fun to have a foodie weekend with you, ethan and sean sometime.