I had planned to write on eagles this week as there are a couple nesting near here, but I realized the 4th weekend was coming up and instead it was compulsory that I post on the eating plans. We always do our Seafood Boil on the 4th and this will be no exception. I have a fabulous recipe for the boil and we often will do this in the huge kettle over an open wood fire. It appears the weather will cooperate. The above is a favorite of my son John. The bowl and stand were given to me by my father for just such a meal.
We will also have a mushroom/bacon/swiss cheese frittata with garden tarragon most likely cooked over the wood fire, but the big excitement:
I’m looking forward to introducing my family to a fabulous German pancake, cooked in the enormous cast iron skillet and served with butter and powdered sugar and lemon. I tried it out last weekend myself and it was a thing of beauty (pictures to be posted next week), rising up like a Yorkshire pudding and texturally reminiscent of a sopapilla or a slightly eggier elephant ear. The trial was to die for and am hoping my family concurs.
Also new:
We will also do tacos two ways: Choropollo (Chicken with Chorizo sausage) and Tacos Carnitas which will be served with slow grilled pulled pork, greens, various chilis, scallions, cilantro and salsa verde, all green for the Carnitas– both new recipes I am trying out on the crew. Pictures and recipes will appear in the new memoir/cookbook I am working on, some of which will also be posted soon.
Ruminations on all this and the eagles next week. Happy 4th all.
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I love words so I write them. I’ve been doing that since I was old enough to read. I am a published literary writer and I was an adjunct English professor at Northern Michigan University for many years. I write and live and love off the grid on 35 acres and a trout stream in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with my son, Joshua, who has Down Syndrome, and with an English Shepherd dog named Maggie, and with my husband when he can make it here which isn’t often. This blog started out being about my work, and it will continue to be. ( I’m working on a novel about premonitions and dreams.) But this blog is also about living off the grid and about my experimentation with diet—most recently the Carnivore Diet. I started on the Ketogenic diet, but have moved into Carnivore. How long, I don’t know. But I’ve become interest in the effects of diet on not just my health, but on creativity. And I’m interested in the effects of the diet on my dreams.
Ah, dreams... The day before my son was born, my mother “dreamed” or was told my son would have Down Syndrome, something she told my brother ahead of time. I’ve never known what to make of that. So I’m interested in prophetic dreams, lucid dreaming, creativity and dreams, night terrors. Who isn't interested in that? I’m interested in Freud (more Jung) and Einstein’s theories of time and how their ideas inform my dreams. I’m interested in mining a deeper relationship with a dream world not confined to daytime experiences, and how the night might inform a more fully imagined daytime “reality.” And vice-versa. Which is the dream?? I’m exploring dreams of all sorts. Come explore with me…
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