I am shamelessly stealing Amanda Marcotte’s CSA series on Pandagon since we enrolled in Spud!, an organic/local food delivery service that I’ve been jonesing for for a coupla years. This was only our first week and I’m not sure how much mojo I’ll have to keep posting after the twins are bornded, but the quality was high and I was inspired by what I was able to make with fairly little exertion. Also, this post contains one of my classic foundational greens recipes that I make constantly. Check it out, see if you dig it.
They're just so damn pretty
What we got: [local] shiitakes, cremini, white mushrooms, mixed bean sprouts, spartan apples [organic but from elsewhere] pears, kale, green chard, yellow onions
What I had before just kickin’ around: the little leftovers of a bunch of different kinds of organic weapons-grade rice: primarily Lundberg blends but some wild, long grain brown, and red, all thrown together during the moving and cleaning process, sesame oil, chili garlic sauce, garlic, Bragg’s, lemon juice, sesame seeds, olive oil, S&P, dried thyme, Earth Balance, celery (more…)
A combination of a miserably slow Internet install [I'm glaring balefully at *you*, Telus] and the challenge of getting the laptop under? around? alongside? the pregnant belly, combined with the below-mentioned fuzzy brain and generally slower-moving energy [both physical and intellectual] has cranked my blog pace down below sporadic to non-existent. It’s not that I haven’t had stuff to say or write about, it’s that I seem to have some sort of attention deficit disorder that only permits me to do one thing for about ten or fifteen minutes before I have to get up and boogie around doing something else. And although I have been trying my hardest to continue to serve our community and keep communicating the core of my teaching, I gotta say: I weigh 186 lbs: I’m getting freaking tired. I’ve been super lucky throughout this whole pregnancy experience and have dodged most pain- and discomfort-bullets, but the straight up weight of these little suckers is really changing the game. So this post might be a bit
Thanks, Al Gore
schizoid but I’m trying to catch up on both practical details, upcoming community events, and thought-nuggets of varying value.
- Living downtown has so far proved magnificent, although I’m still kind of intimidated by living somewhere that’s so nice and keep expecting somebody to either turf me out for being a hippie or slide a Holiday Inn Express check-out form under the door. As we near the end of our first month here I am starting to dig in a little more and get comfy. The concrete and the building security soothes the low-level autistic tendencies in a very happy way. And you never know how much you miss abundant electrical outlets until you live somewhere with an appropriately modern amount of them [there's nothing like the A-Christmas-Story-like nest of frothing, sparking plugs, sealed with cat-hair, all piled into a Black and Decker power bar from 1996].
- My last class before “mat leave” will be Big Rock Friday on April 1 at 4. Play hooky, call in sick, if you have a pass at another studio don’t worry about the $$$, just come and visit please. It’s a nice big space so it’ll be a bit roomier than the Yaletown sweat lodge. As much as I’m looking forward to focussing more time and energy on these little beans I’m going to miss grownups like crazy, especially since almost all of you are continent and can speak in complete sentences. So let’s party. And I’m sorry about the outdated schedule that’s been up here on the blog…that’s pretty irritating…for what it’s worth [not much with a week to go] it’s fixed now.
- Don’t forget to keep checking our Vanusara community site for upcoming events. Sianna Sherman is this weekend and Martin Kirk’s therapeutics on April 1-3…not to mention a years’ worth of Immersions, Teacher Trainings, Philosophy Weekends, Advanced Practices and other abundant opportunities for study.