Dipster: Installment III

I don't brush with toothpaste any more.
   I have not brushed with toothpaste since November 2012. I pull oil every morning for 20 minutes and I brush my teeth with water every night (or, rarely, with oil or baking soda). I floss every night too (a habit I abruptly adopted fervently after Roscivs died).
   After I pull oil, my teeth feel as smooth as they do the afternoon after a dentist visit! I like the results.
   Yet ...
   I have not yet seen the dentist since adopting these oral hygiene methods. I have my biannual visit coming up next month and I wonder what he will say about the health of my teeth and gums. While I do not put first trust in conventional chemical paste and swish methods of attaining or maintaining oral health, I put trust in my dentist's assessment of whether my teeth and gums are healthy.
   If my oral health seems to be suffering I will have to find a new method. If not, huzpaz!

Box #1

7 pounds of vegetables! All harvested this morning! Now in the fridge — or my belly. (The shungiku didn't last an hour. It's all gone. I love that stuff.)

Listed by weight:

mustard greens
   (a variety that I'm not familiar with ... very long, and light green)
leeks
spinach
salad turnips
chard
lettuce
   (red leaf variety)
radishes
shungiku
collards
celery
kale raab
cress

Dance of the Veg'table Fairy

Frabjous day!: this week will see us get our first CSA box of the season! Yum yum yummy yum yum! 

   Same farm as last year :) Last year I was a household of one and ordered a half share and didn't know what to do with it half of the time. This year we are a household of two and ordered a full share and I'll know what to do with it all the time — not because we are two, but because now I am THE VEGETABLE MAVEN.

Some of my favorite, new items last year were ♣ garlic scapes, mustard greens, dill, and chervil.

   I fizz with anticipation. It's so fun to wonder what is going to be in our box. This is my kind of gambling!

Soundtrack: "No Phone" by Cake

I bring you the second installment of how hippie I am: I don't have a cell phone any more. I have a land line that costs me $10 a month from my internet provider.
   I really enjoy this change. My six year old cell phone died in August last year, making it easier for me to unplug in this way.

ADHDancer

Yesterday I saw Circa perform. Circa is a troupe that does body/movement art. It was a good performance!
   I noticed something in the dancers' profiles: six of seven of them mentioned that (s)he was hyperactive as a child. Unusually so. They stuck out: they didn't fit in.

Today, a friend linked to this Onion article. It's incisive — a satiric incision. I'd laugh if I weren't sick with horrorage over kids really being drugged into behaving conveniently.

To Market To Market to Buy a Fat Fish, Home Again Home Again Cook't in a Dish

Yesterday our farmers' market opened! Today we went! We bought smelt — three whole smelt. I simmered them silly and we ate them up. Yum.
   We ate all of them. And I don't mean all three, though that's true; I mean all parts. Fins. Bones. Head. Eyes. Guts. And — because we bought three females — roe.
   Here, Mark Sisson recommends "Tiny whole fish with heads and guts", noting "Anytime you can eat the entire animal, you should."
   (Guess which three items on that list I do not regularly eat?)
   My preparation was inspired by something in The Herbal Palate Cookbook (which was a sore disappointment overall but gave me two great ideas). I used my just-made fish broth and added coconut milk, dried lemongrass, garlic, lime juice, and salt. I used a Thai red curry paste: red chili pepper, garlic, lemongrass, galangal, salt, shallot, spices, kaffir lime. As you can see I fortified some of the flavors.
   Near the end I added pencil-thin asparagus and tiny cuts of broccoli florets.
   Bjørnatron loved it and I will be making it again for sure. Next time maybe I'll add crab. I discovered source for it locally — conveniently, it's on our walk to the market!

The rest of our haul: 2 bags of nettles, 2 bunches of miner's lettuce, and 1 bunch of chives.