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The skies have barely cleared for a week now and it all feels like sorrow a bit. But that's okay in Autumn.

Good weekend so far. Yesterday, we finally started putting things up on the wall in the renovated 2nd floor including an awesome Indonesian knick-knacky kind of shelf from a garage sale which now holds three sea shells and a trippy Alice in Wonderland magnifying clock from another garage sale. In the bedroom, we've put up the enormous beautiful Chinese fan with painted storks bought at a third garage sale. Do you sense a pattern?

Then I got together for the first time in months with [livejournal.com profile] snowmit who is incredible fun to hang out with. He helped me pick out a good PS2 game for my nephew's birthday today and then we had excellent Indian food and talked about how we're handling this thing called life. There are many things I value about my friendship with the 'mit but one of the most important is his ability to help you see situations clearly and de-neuroticize the choices you have to make. Then we went to Kitchen Stuff Plus and passed judgement on the worth of various gadgets. Good times.

Today I made GREEN TOMATO CHUTNEY with half of my green tomatos. The recipe is from the old version of the Joy of Cooking (early 60s):

GREEN TOMATO (OR APPLE) CHUTNEY

>Please read up about safe canning and preserves before you poison someone.

Simmer until the fruit is tender:

  • 1 seeded chopped lemon

  • 1 skinned chopped garlic clove (I used 2)

  • 5 cups firm peeled chopped apples or green tomatos

  • 2 1/4 cups brown sugar

  • 1 1/2 cups seeded raisins

  • 3 oz. chopped crystallized ginger, or 3/4 cup fresh ginger root (I used 1/2 cup grated fresh)

  • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt

  • 1/4 teaspoon cayenne (I used nearly a tsp)

  • 2 cups cider vinegar

  • Optional (but I did it): 2 chopped red peppers, seeds and membranes removed


Put chutney in sterile jars and seal them.

MMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Re: PS2

Date: 2006-10-23 05:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mentalmakeup.livejournal.com
Hates may placate me.

Re: PS2

Date: 2006-10-23 05:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talktooloose.livejournal.com
Your Freudian slip is showing.

Re: PS2

Date: 2006-10-23 05:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mentalmakeup.livejournal.com
ACK ok I wrote that literally five minutes after waking up, during which time I am a complete disaster! I thought 'hats may placate me' would be funny-sounding. If it's any consolation, I almost typed 'hats my placate me' just there.

Re: PS2

Date: 2006-10-23 05:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talktooloose.livejournal.com
*grinning*

I'm very slow today (sleeeeeepy) and I stared at that comment for a good ten seconds before I understood what the hell it was supposed to say.

For the record, the game was Tony Whatchamacallit: Underground

Re: PS2

Date: 2006-10-23 05:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mentalmakeup.livejournal.com
HAWK, old man, Tony HAWK. :)

Re: PS2

Date: 2006-10-23 06:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mentalmakeup.livejournal.com
Tony Hawk is only like four years younger than you.

Re: PS2

Date: 2006-10-23 07:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talktooloose.livejournal.com
He's a real person? Oh, cool.

I'm the best age in the world. Born in my year were Johnny Depp, Rick Rubin, the X-Men, Tori Amos, Jet Li, George Michael, John Cameron Mitchell, Mike Myers and Sir Mix-a-Lot. Anthony Keidis and Flea are a few months older than me from the end of '62.

Re: PS2

Date: 2006-10-23 07:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mentalmakeup.livejournal.com
OH YEAH? Well I got Clay Aiken and Kevin Federline and... what looks to be a lot of porn stars... damnit.

OH OH AUDREY TAUTOU AND NELLY FURTADO OH SNAP

Re: PS2

Date: 2006-10-23 11:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nyahnyahnyah.livejournal.com
DO NOT BE A HAT H8TER.

Dude, I so have the perfect hat for tea-ing. I will bring it, and you will bow down before me.

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