(no subject)

[tanaise]

No work again today. Well, that's not true. I had about 30 minutes of work when I first got in, fixing broken links. And then someone tried to give me work, but gave me the files in the wrong format (and yes, I could convert them to the right format in, oh, minutes, but that's not the point). So mostly I spent my morning checking out job postings. And finding, well, pretty much nothing. Lots of nothing. And some maybes, and one or two that actually look interesting, and a technical/creative temp agency that pays real money, so let us all hope that my skills are up to their standards. Because literally, if they could promise me 20 hrs a week, I could make as much money as I am here.

Um. The weekend. Lots of reading. I went to the library on saturday and brought home a stack which I promptly read the majority of in two days. No writing. As a protective measure, I made apple crisp and peach crisp Saturday night. Defense against having to write, of course. They turned out ultimately very well. The apple was too sweet in my book and didn't have enough cinnamon, but it's really hard to truly mess up a dish which is apples, brown sugar, butter, flour, and oatmeal. The peach (which I don't eat) has almond bits and nutmeg. ooooh. fancy.

Sunday, more lounging. watched about a boy. I'll buy the DVD if it has the music videos on it as well. Good dinner. Good weekend.

Comments

[nanne.livejournal.com]

You have been added. ^_^

Yup. Finally.

the core of the issue

[(Anonymous)]

what kind of apples did you use in your crisp?

~b.

Re: the core of the issue

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Romes. They weren't very good--still last year's produce, i assume, mealy and a little flavorless. We're excellent on the organic stuff in the rest of the pantry, but the organic produce isn't happening just yet. I am so looking forward to the fall apples that I will probably come back to the house some day just to make apple crisp with something sour enough to make your toes curl. Lodi, maybe. I really wanted to cook with them, but I never did.

Re: the core of the issue

[(Anonymous)]

for pies, i've been using a mix of sweet and tart in recent years (haralsons are the tart apple of choice in MN and prairie spies make a good companion).

i don't know lodi apples. a new england variety?

just got a call from a new orchard that we're dealing with this year - he says the cold weather last week sped up the season, put blush on the apples, and he'll probably truck his first shipment on friday.

apples! apples not from new zealand!

~b.

Re: the core of the issue

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Lodi were always the first apples of the season at home (PA). They're green and really really tart--pucker your mouth tart--and intended only for cooking. I of course tasted all the apples because a) I love cooking apples and b) I was selling them so it seemed appropriate to be able to say things based on personal experience.

These apples are from PA, according to their little labels, so they're last year's crop, as if I couldn't guess they were Controlled Atmosphere from the texture alone. (I am *so* an apple snob like most people wouldn't believe.)

Re: the core of the issue

[(Anonymous)]

"I am *so* an apple snob."

right on, sister. if you can taste the difference between CA-storage and fresh, you're a buddy of mine.

do you happen to know the mountaineer or nittany varieties? we had a line on them from west virginia for years and years. sadly the orchard went out of business, and i sorely miss those mountaineers. not only for the sweet/tart taste: they were trapezoidal in shape. freaky and fun to hand-stack.

~b.

Re: the core of the issue

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

I don't, but they sound neat. And also like I should have seen them, since they were developed in the town where I was born (http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/treefruit/422-760/422-760.html --look at all the cool stuff I find on the web), and you'd think someone up there would be growing them.

Are you coming to world con this year?

Re: the core of the issue

[(Anonymous)]

oooo! cool site! i'll have to peruse this at work later (reasearch, you know...)

no, i won't be at world con. pout. it's big fat bummer, but baby and other factors are eclipsing convention-going at the moment.

once isaiah is a little older, i really, really want to make it to readercon. is readercon held in apple season???

~b.

Re: the core of the issue

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

I don't think so. I think it's held mid-July. Maybe Boston will bid for a WFC--that's about the right time for apples. Well, as good as a con as is available, I think.

About A Boy

[blerkie.livejournal.com]

Great movie - rented it here while my family was visiting. Robby and Sarah are still quoting "She's not keen on him! SHE'S ONLY KEEN ON ME!!"