helps the medicine go down

I love daily engrish

And I love List of the Day for putting it all in one place for me (why doesn't Daily Engrish have an RSS feed?).

I love morning glories

And I like that the black eyed susan vine (no relation to the yellow coneflower, black eyed susan) is in the background of the pics, the color contrast is nice, I think.

bring on the alliums!

Today was the first pickup of our full membership in Inland Empire CSA. We got:

• 1 small head of romaine lettuce
• 4 heads of young garlic
• 1 small bag of salad mix
• 2 pints of strawberries
• 1 bunch of red dandelion greens
• small bunch of leeks
• 1 bunch of basil
• 3 small red onions (may be garlic, not sure)
• 2 white onions, not cured
• 2 green peppers
• 1 bag of new potatoes (small, mostly marble or golf ball sized)
• 2 baby zucchini
• 2 grapefruit
• 5 oranges
• 3 haas avocados

And the farmer was so happy that I had emailed him a list of my posts about the battle of the CSA boxes that he gave me two tangerines and enough patty pan squashes to make one of my favorite spring/summer meals, stuffed patty pan squashes.

Oh, and are you wondering what I've been doing with all the alliums we've been getting these past few weeks? I put them all in the food processor with some olive oil (organic, extra virgin, don't bother with anything else). When they were close to pureed, I put the pastey stuff into ice cube trays. When I need some now, I just take a cube out of the freezer.

art with a real impact

I got this link in my inbox this morning from an artist I know. This work is powerful and I hope has an impact on people's perceptions of how they can make a change.

It's so hard to pick favorites, but I have to say that every time I fly I cringe at all of the waste, so the first really drew me in. I also love the Denali one, the irony of the actual mountain, and also the "Denial" dig.