Whew tiring day today.
I ventured out to the farmer’s market again and I was embarrassed because I went a half hour early and the people told me I couldn’t buy anything because they weren’t open…wow I’m a noob. Anyway, this week was an orange week…odd I know. I bought a couple of beautiful yellow/orange bell peppers, orange cauliflower, orange cherry tomatoes, and some yellow raspberries. I’m think of doing stir-fry tomorrow so I’ll try to take a picture of the cauliflower. Nathan totally thinks I’m becoming like the woman on Splendid Table on NPR or PRI (not sure which one) because I’m always talking about how beautiful and vibrant food is. At least I haven’t started making those noises that often sound a bit too bedroom like for our hearing tastes. On a random note, I think I have some gene that makes me prone to crying while cutting onions, hence the blog name oniontears. I was really proud of myself because I’ve built a small immunity to white onions and thought that yellow onions would be milder. But no…maybe it was just this particular onion but I was crying for 15 minutes and had to sit in front of the fan to dry my eyes because my hands were all oniony.
Look how pretty. I treked all over santa cruz with my goodies and went to petsmart and the local market AND I made it all the way up the hill without stopping. I must admit that I’ve gained some good muscle…I remember when I had to be on the lowest gear because I couldn’t get my butt up smaller hills. So I’m happy.
Made some tortilla soup for dinner which I really love. I watched the movie this weekend while knitting and I got so hungry thinking about it that I made some. Nathan says he likes the TVP in it but I think seitan might be better. I used 4 serrano peppers and it was spicy but I was hoping it would be hotter. I really don’t like using jalepenos which are about the only hot pepper I can find at the local markets. Personally, I feel like they have a very distinctive taste that isn’t always suitable for dishes. Maybe it’s in my head but I love using serrano, or anaheim, or small peppers that have a bit of a bite. Although now that I think about it I don’t think anahiem peppers are very hot but I like them. Anyway, I also tried making home-made tortillas but I really need to buy a cast iron pan because I have to oil my pan which gave the dough a greasy surface. I ended up just slicing a regular flour tortilla and fried it for the toppings. I’m proud of Nathan because he always knows that cebolla means onion probably because he likes this one taqueria and I guess he just picked it up while listening to the cooks. It’s interesting also because he probably picked up on the words because he’s a vegan and always listens to make sure that the cooks don’t add ‘crema’ or ‘queso’. So I guess being a vegan has helped him learn a bit of spanish haha.
And lastly, I thought I’d post a picture of our cactus. We still haven’t named him though. Nothing has stuck so far but I’m sure we’ll get a good one eventually. He’s a trooper…he’s been knocked over like 3 times because these people were playing soccer in our driveway/courtyard and we were a bit concerned that his roots had been messed up. But he’s happy and healthy with little babies on the way. I don’t know if that means he is actually a ’she’ but oh well…
