July 4

Greetings from the Colonial Capital. From the safety of my apartment I've been watching storms come and go all afternoon - hope the weather doesn't ruin anyone's holiday.

Yesterday I picked up my second realfood order of the summer:
free range chicken eggs
blueberries
white & red cabbage
potatoes (austrian crescent, adirondack red)
carrots
gold beets
daikon radish
italian zucchini

You'd think that I'd have spent today cooking all these great things, but you would be wrong. Instead, I cooked up a couple more turkey sausages and made home fries with some of the potatoes I'd boiled the other day + green onions. Why green onions? Well, for reasons that I don't entirely understand, I have NO onions in my apartment!! I will remedy that at the farmer's market in the morning. The home fries were good but I definitely missed the strings of crispy browned onions.

I did have some grill envy earlier in the day when it seemed like everyone in the complex had toted their Webers and Colemans down to cook up big holiday feasts. But the thought of schlepping equipment up and down the steps made me get over it pretty quickly. To think that I took for granted all the barbecues that we had pretty much every summer weekend when I was growing up: ribs, chicken, venison. sigh. We even had a fire pit where you could cook a whole hog.

Tomorrow is another day, and it has a blueberry smoothie, borscht and ice cream on the agenda. Have a happy 4th!