poor pig:

That picture below is amazing.  I wish I spent more time in mountains and with dogs.  Also, I thought I would share this photo.  My family doesn't do turkey on Thanksgiving.  This year Dad really wanted a pork roast so that's what we did.  

saturday not-iditarod

There were six of us and four dogs, but two people and one dog took a different route so we split about 30 minutes into the run. We didn't end up finding the lake we were looking for, but someone asked for photos, so here's one: me, Duke, and Maya, searching for a lake.

recipe

ok, this is pretty straightforward BUT, like all of my recipes, there is a secret ingredient.

small tomatoes (cherry or grape - something with flavor)

garlic; ca. 8 cloves 

scallions/shallots/red onions

rosemary (preferably not the spiky kind but the softer kind so it won't get stuck in your teeth)

arugula

cranberries! about 1/2 a cup (this is the secret ingredient)

linguine

feta

1. slice garlic and put in pan with lots of olive oil and rosemary.  leave this in the oven (340 or thereabouts) for about 30 minutes (maybe put a few halved tomatoes in, too, just to make the pan juicier)

2. cut tomatoes in half or quarters

3. chop your onions/shallots/scallions

4. add toms, onion, & cranberries to the pan.  You may need to add some more olive oil.  add a little salt.  Leave in the oven for another 30 minutes or until done (it's done when the garlic is soft).

5. make the linguine, strain, etc.

6. dump everything from the pan onto the pasta, also add the arugula and mix everything around until the arugula wilts down.

7. put pasta on plates and crumble some feta on top

the cranberries make the sauce taste like sun-dried tomatoes, which I don't normally like. Anyway, there are lots of rich flavors and it's really easy to make.

               yum: 

when in rochester...

stand on a porch, in a circle, and blow cigarette smoke towards the street. look across the way and see a parking lot, in an odd shape -- like a serpent curled into a box. flanking it on the left is a church with a tall spire. on the right is an intersection that in the few hours i've stared at it has mostly been empty. a girl who is standing next to me in the circle remarks that she'd like to take a picture of it sometime, and i don't see why she wants to. the cigs run dry quickly, and someone pulls out a key, and we all troop inside.

Wednesday Night Not-Iditarod

eleven people, four dogs, three vehicles to get us out of the city, and one 10km out-and-back that turned into a 16km out-and-back which was manageable because we haven't had fresh snow in a while so the trail was fairly clear but the ground frozen rock solid - my ankles took a number of good twists. the sky was clear, which made it cold, but the stars that much more plentiful. beer and chips when i got home. and so to bed...

bookbindings!

My favorite website.

pyx

Limoges pyx.

from.

A name for a pet...?

Did you know that a pyx is 1) a small round metal receptacle used to carry the Eucharist to the sick and 2) a box used in a mint for deposit of sample coins reserved for testing weight and fineness?

sometimes I wish I had a pet

so I could name it Woody Guthrie.

Basque Dragon

Word:

Enarch, used by David Brooks in his column last Friday: graduate of l’Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA), breeding ground for the top dogs of French government. That's enarch, not eunuch.

Today’s layers:

1. Black t-shirt with little pocket, striped thrift sweater, olive green hooded jacket
2. Greek yogurt, blackberry jam, honey

is pleurisy syd barrett, beatrice potter, or amy winehouse?

elements:

Neasa + Jane + Sarah = stories?

how does one domesticate dragons, anyway?

also, 

what is Calgary?

and who is journalism?

and why is pleurisy?