“Sometimes I make something so tremendous that I feel like Nigella F—ing Lawson.”
, which is a natural spring that a nice man named Curtis allows people to access for donations. We go every few weeks to fill 3-gallon bottles and visit a bit and pet his spaniel Charlie. We donate however much cash we have, sometimes $20, sometimes $6, and sometimes none and make up for it next time. Last time, I gave $10.
I get to drink my coffee in total silence and pet Marco and look at my garden to see if things are growing back now that we’ve trapped Larry the groundhog, who was eating my dahlias and best tomatoes. Don’t worry. We let him out in the woods to go chuck some more.It’s the last week of summer vacation, so the 10 year-old comes down and asks for Cheetos. I am still exercising some sort of control over his diet, so I tell him no and make him an everything bagel and cream cheese.
After cooking on a tiny electric stove for years, I still forget the stove in the house we bought last year has a wok-burner. I don’t know how many woks I’ve thrown away in the past three decades, but the current one gets a workout. In goes a few splats of light olive oil, a few drops of sesame oil, a big clove of garlic roughly chopped, a piece of chopped pickled ginger which I keep on hand instead of moldering knobs, the veg, and a splash of mushroom soy sauce.
All the Michigan stone fruit is late this year, so it seems like we’ve been eating berries forever. I smell a few cantaloupe and pick the most fetid one, knowing it’s the stink that means the inside will be sweetest . After a day in my kitchen, it will need to be cut or the smell will be almost unbearable.
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