Monthly Archive for May, 2010

Fiddling Pickleheads

This coop haul included fiddleheads.

coop haul may 10

I took them up to Anna and Naf’s the other weekend, we ate them with eggs and they were delicious. Fiddleheads were totally destined to be the first canning project of the summer. So I bought more.

This, by the way, is the most recent Cat and Girl comic:

cat and girl arrivals lounge

Close up on the punchline as Grrl tells past Grrl about the future:

lots of people make their own pickles

Anyhow, after a bit of googling I decided on this recipe from Fat of The Land and learned that if your recipe doesn’t have photos I don’t really consider making it. Which is silly, but true.

wash
pack jars
pack jars
boil vinegar mixture
hot water process
let 'em hang out
done!

Now the jars are just hanging out…to be eaten in November or February!

Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn Awesome

I want to post this photo and say that this is the best thing I did this week–a Brooklyn Bridge Birthday Bike Ride (the bridge turned 127 on Monday) with the City Reliquary complete with cake and pop and a band and a dance party. Giving cake to tourists and locals walking across the bridge at 7pm on a weekday is really just a lovely thing to do. This is me giving a piece with a yellow flower to a girl in a dress with yellow flowers. When her mom came up a few moments later and saw her kid with a big piece of cake, she burst out laughing at her charming cake-manipulative daughter. But it was all part of the plan.

The reason that I can’t say this was the most awesome thing I did this week is because last night Naomi and I went to Jalopy for their Wednesday night free “Roots and Ruckus” show, and we saw the best thing I’ve ever seen. The Bill Murray Experience (silly name for an amazing group of musicians), fronted by the cutest lady who sings and plays the washboard and kazoo, just totally blew us away.

Here is a video!

I like these kids

adam and naomi

which dress to make?



which dress to make?,originally uploaded by dorywithserifs.

Rooibus or Ceylon?
www.colettepatterns.com/shop

This makes me crazy

no parking on sidewalk
but there is PARKING ON THE SIDEWALK!

On St John’s Place, across from the Eye of the Storm FDNY Firehouse.

community resources

I just read about the Baltimore Virtual Supermarket project–grocery delivery to libraries in the food deserts of Baltimore. It means that people can get access to fresh, good food, pay with SNAP, and not have to worry about delivery charges or minimum orders.

I think it’s really great that they’re using libraries as the hub–they are community resources that are well-distributed throughout cities (usually, hopefully).

It reminds me of this article that Kurt passed along about the US Postal Service, which mentions that post offices used to offer small savings accounts, especially important and useful for folks who live in places that banks have ignored. Seems to make a lot of sense to me to utilize already-existing infrastructure to do good things.

coop haul may 10



coop haul may 10,originally uploaded by dorywithserifs.

$27

Much of this is destined to become Leek Bread Pudding.

Leeks, fiddleheads, lemons, asparagus, cheese, tomatillos, mustard greens, brioche, butter, cream, milk, linewaiter’s gazette.

bikes in the kitchen



bikes in the kitchen,originally uploaded by dorywithserifs.

Riding home through Williamsburg.

G’bye, Freddy’s

This is fun: at about 1:36 you can see my friend John and I cross the street (from bottom left corner to the bar), lock up my bike, and go inside. And then my bike gets to be front and centre for the rest of the little clip.

Freddy’s Bar - Last Days from tracy collins on Vimeo.

NYT article and slideshow about Freddy’s here.

Coop Haul

Inspired by Emily’s farmer’s market haul photos, (inspired, in turn, by Sweet Juniper), this is today’s Park Slope Food Coop haul

everything I bought

1 cucumber
bag of brussels sprouts
cream cheese
blue cheese
peccorino cheese
2 avocados
bag of baby carrots
2 packages of frozen ravioli
1 loaf amy’s bread
4 tomatoes
1 kiwi
4 limes
1 bunch kale
3 packages frozen peas
yogurt
milk
4 bottles of beer
2 leeks
6 eggs
bag of salad greens
bunch of mint
handful of basil
2 lemons
2 lightbulbs
current issue of the coop newspaper

$48