Comments on: Pull Up A Chair… http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/15/pull-up-a-chair-5/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:23:28 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: susan http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/15/pull-up-a-chair-5/#comment-191362 susan Sun, 16 Jul 2006 13:16:13 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/15/pull-up-a-chair-5/#comment-191362 <p>Morning All,</p> <p>I know this is the day after, but I wanted to thank everyone for sharing ideas, poems, books, recipes, and joy !</p> <p>Thank you Christy, I love this Saturday thread.</p> <p>And thankyou carolyn urban for reminding me to put butt to earth.</p> Morning All,

I know this is the day after, but I wanted to thank everyone for sharing ideas, poems, books, recipes, and joy !

Thank you Christy, I love this Saturday thread.

And thankyou carolyn urban for reminding me to put butt to earth.

]]> By: bob h http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/15/pull-up-a-chair-5/#comment-191315 bob h Sun, 16 Jul 2006 12:06:43 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/15/pull-up-a-chair-5/#comment-191315 <p>I think my garden is worth about 10 points on my blood pressure levels. But this year, in the swampy Northeast, it has been too hot and too rainy to do much, and I am behind the curve.</p> I think my garden is worth about 10 points on my blood pressure levels. But this year, in the swampy Northeast, it has been too hot and too rainy to do much, and I am behind the curve.

]]> By: meta http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/15/pull-up-a-chair-5/#comment-190947 meta Sun, 16 Jul 2006 00:30:59 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/15/pull-up-a-chair-5/#comment-190947 <p>What a lovely thread, people! I’m doing my usual showing up late after work, but just wanted to pass along a delicous Spanish tapa. I had it in a lovely Spanish restaurant and I couldn’t get it out of my mind. It’s a Pear and Bocorones Salad. Delicious if you like this sort of thing.<br /> Bocorones are fresh white unsalted anchovies marinated in oil with a bit of vinegar. I find them here at a local cheese shop, and I know they’re available at fine grocers as well.<br /> This isn’t really a recipe per se, but rather a list of ingredients for you to play with. Vary the amount of each ingredient according to your own palate.</p> <p>Bocorones and Fresh Pear Salad</p> <p>arugula or watercress or field greens<br /> fresh comice pear, sliced<br /> white onion, very thinly sliced<br /> parmesan or manchego or parrano, shaved<br /> bocorones<br /> olive oil<br /> rice wine vinegar</p> <p>Fix a nice plate - beginning with the fresh greens, start stacking a tight little nest with the remaining ingredients. Drizzle with olive oil and rice wine vinegar. Season to taste.<br /> Delicious with a white Rioja.</p> What a lovely thread, people! I’m doing my usual showing up late after work, but just wanted to pass along a delicous Spanish tapa. I had it in a lovely Spanish restaurant and I couldn’t get it out of my mind. It’s a Pear and Bocorones Salad. Delicious if you like this sort of thing.
Bocorones are fresh white unsalted anchovies marinated in oil with a bit of vinegar. I find them here at a local cheese shop, and I know they’re available at fine grocers as well.
This isn’t really a recipe per se, but rather a list of ingredients for you to play with. Vary the amount of each ingredient according to your own palate.

Bocorones and Fresh Pear Salad

arugula or watercress or field greens
fresh comice pear, sliced
white onion, very thinly sliced
parmesan or manchego or parrano, shaved
bocorones
olive oil
rice wine vinegar

Fix a nice plate – beginning with the fresh greens, start stacking a tight little nest with the remaining ingredients. Drizzle with olive oil and rice wine vinegar. Season to taste.
Delicious with a white Rioja.

]]> By: egregious http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/15/pull-up-a-chair-5/#comment-190823 egregious Sat, 15 Jul 2006 22:36:15 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/15/pull-up-a-chair-5/#comment-190823 <p>Is Lotus around?</p> <p>L, are you saying your friend’s SISTER doesn’t even know where she is? Time to call in the law in that case.</p> Is Lotus around?

L, are you saying your friend’s SISTER doesn’t even know where she is? Time to call in the law in that case.

]]> By: Mommybrain http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/15/pull-up-a-chair-5/#comment-190791 Mommybrain Sat, 15 Jul 2006 22:01:26 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/15/pull-up-a-chair-5/#comment-190791 <p>Yummy summer breakfast (and sometimes lunch):</p> <p>Fresh blueberries, plain or frozen, for those really hot days<br /> Sliced strawberries, peaches, nectarines or other fruit or berries<br /> Favorite cereal - mine is Kashi Strawberry Fields or Special K Red Berries<br /> Plain yogurt<br /> Honey</p> <p>Stir. Or not. Enjoy.</p> Yummy summer breakfast (and sometimes lunch):

Fresh blueberries, plain or frozen, for those really hot days
Sliced strawberries, peaches, nectarines or other fruit or berries
Favorite cereal – mine is Kashi Strawberry Fields or Special K Red Berries
Plain yogurt
Honey

Stir. Or not. Enjoy.

]]> By: katecontinued http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/15/pull-up-a-chair-5/#comment-190789 katecontinued Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:59:03 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/15/pull-up-a-chair-5/#comment-190789 <p>Thanks for your comments, Susan. Is Maine one of those states that give you credit for a rain barrel? I have lately heard of these being used in Illinois for yards. Did you know that 30% or more of our water use is for lawncare? Wow</p> <p>I need to find out more about this in California.</p> Thanks for your comments, Susan. Is Maine one of those states that give you credit for a rain barrel? I have lately heard of these being used in Illinois for yards. Did you know that 30% or more of our water use is for lawncare? Wow

I need to find out more about this in California.

]]> By: jan http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/15/pull-up-a-chair-5/#comment-190784 jan Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:56:16 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/15/pull-up-a-chair-5/#comment-190784 <p>Christie, Jane and the Peanut.. For those down days:) FDL is a garden of your creation and all who visit are enriched by the experience. Lots of hugs for the peanut…</p> Christie, Jane and the Peanut.. For those down days:) FDL is a garden of your creation and all who visit are enriched by the experience. Lots of hugs for the peanut…

]]> By: lotus http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/15/pull-up-a-chair-5/#comment-190731 lotus Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:14:12 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/15/pull-up-a-chair-5/#comment-190731 <p>susan, CFS = Chelsea Flower Show.</p> <p>What a thread this is — pleasure everywhere! Boy, do we need it today. Thank you, everybody.</p> susan, CFS = Chelsea Flower Show.

What a thread this is — pleasure everywhere! Boy, do we need it today. Thank you, everybody.

]]> By: susan http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/15/pull-up-a-chair-5/#comment-190718 susan Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:01:39 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/15/pull-up-a-chair-5/#comment-190718 <p>Hi katecontinued, I had never heard of Diarmuid Gavin. Thanks for the tip. </p> <p>I hope you build your green roof ! It sounds very ambitious. If I had had a green roof this spring it would have ended up quite a soggy sorry mess. This being Maine. I suppose such things work out much better in Southern California.</p> <p>What is the CFS?</p> Hi katecontinued, I had never heard of Diarmuid Gavin. Thanks for the tip.

I hope you build your green roof ! It sounds very ambitious. If I had had a green roof this spring it would have ended up quite a soggy sorry mess. This being Maine. I suppose such things work out much better in Southern California.

What is the CFS?

]]> By: ironranger http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/15/pull-up-a-chair-5/#comment-190714 ironranger Sat, 15 Jul 2006 20:53:57 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/15/pull-up-a-chair-5/#comment-190714 <p>Just got back. Had to do some heavy duty garden watering…dry, dry, dry..think it was close to 95 today which is not the norm (whatever that is anymore) for this area. I still prefer the mercury thermometer vs satellite. AND fill in AGAIN a couple of flower bed spots that one very, very hairy dog keeps digging up looking for cool spots. Sigh. I give up trying to replant this year.<br /> prairiesunshine: I will contact you when seeds are ready. Lupines are one of my favorites. They are related to the pea family w/seed pods. The 1st year I collected seeds, I had paper grocery store bags full sitting in my dining room waiting for me to do something with them. On a sunny day I heard this noise like popping corn that I couldn’t figure out the cause at first. When the seeds got warm in the sun, the pods just start popping open & I had seeds scattered all around. Hilarious mother nature. The plant has long taproot just like a carrot.<br /> Margot: I’m still working on getting a nice spread of gentians established so won’t have much for seeds yet. I need to check w/ the gal that gave me seeds originally to see if her field still has gentians.<br /> ck: ironranger is an ironranger from near Lake Vermilion so I know where Zim is.. I’m sure we went to t-ball & peewee baseball games there when our kids doing that..that time is a blur..marathon practice & game running.</p> Just got back. Had to do some heavy duty garden watering…dry, dry, dry..think it was close to 95 today which is not the norm (whatever that is anymore) for this area. I still prefer the mercury thermometer vs satellite. AND fill in AGAIN a couple of flower bed spots that one very, very hairy dog keeps digging up looking for cool spots. Sigh. I give up trying to replant this year.
prairiesunshine: I will contact you when seeds are ready. Lupines are one of my favorites. They are related to the pea family w/seed pods. The 1st year I collected seeds, I had paper grocery store bags full sitting in my dining room waiting for me to do something with them. On a sunny day I heard this noise like popping corn that I couldn’t figure out the cause at first. When the seeds got warm in the sun, the pods just start popping open & I had seeds scattered all around. Hilarious mother nature. The plant has long taproot just like a carrot.
Margot: I’m still working on getting a nice spread of gentians established so won’t have much for seeds yet. I need to check w/ the gal that gave me seeds originally to see if her field still has gentians.
ck: ironranger is an ironranger from near Lake Vermilion so I know where Zim is.. I’m sure we went to t-ball & peewee baseball games there when our kids doing that..that time is a blur..marathon practice & game running.

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