When It Rains It Pours

The rain is taping the top of the air conditioner, I have little curls at my hairline, and I can barely see out the windows from all the rain drops pressed up against the glass. Today is one of those days you camp out on your couch all dry and cozy. None of this could stop me from picking up the last farm share of the season and hitting the farmers market up. It was a messy ordeal, ( my yellow rain boots are no longer waterproof), and roots vegetables are awfully muddy when it rains.

From the farmers market:
Milk
Onions
Peppers
Tomatoes
Apples
Bread

The CSA was off the hook today;
Carrots
Radishes
Kohlrabi
Turnips
Cabbage
Lettuce
Garlic
Mustard Greens
Bok choy
Leeks
When it rains it pours.

Unfortunately for you and me, James took the mini-camera and bounced to Tokyo to eat all the fish in the Pacific Ocean. Since everything is muddy and wet and I'm feeling lethargic I'm not busting out the big-girl digi. My words will have to suffice.

Every time daylight savings time rolls around I get angry at the farmers. I love farmers for providing me with all the goodness the soil can grow, but do they really need or use daylight savings? I have no idea if daylight savings time is soon or why I think about this so much. It really weighs on my mind more often then it should. Today I asked Farmer Steve "Do you use daylight savings? "and he said it is antiquated, useless and not something useful to farmers anymore. I feel vindicated! I knew it! Farmer Steve told me it was useful many years ago when dairy had to be processed and packaged at different facilities every morning. So who does this benefit? According to two people at the CSA and Wiki, daylight savings time is favored by the tourism, recreation, and outdoor entertainment industry. More daylight means more money. People are more likely to BBQ more often and longer, and they will participate in outdoor sports like golf and tennis (the privileged white man sports). Which reminds me I would like to start skiing this winter. So the government is really dictating our sleep patterns and hobbies also. What is next a lobby to block rainfall so as not to disturb the golfers? I suppose I underestimate the power of BBQ and golf over the modern western man. This was really an eye opening morning.

My culinary life is different when James is gone. I only cook Turkish food and Brother and I heap huge spoonfuls of yogurt directly onto the serving plate. It is liberating. I cooked the leeks with carrots in olive oil, a handful of white rice gets thrown into cook with them and I eat it cold, it is sweet and refreshing for an autumn dish. I also made cauliflower moussaka with ground turkey instead of the typical beef or lamb. It was my first time cooking cauliflower and my first time cooking moussaka and I have to say, I make a mean moussaka. Apparently James has been eating sushi for breakfast, lunch and dinner so it seems his choice of food is also a lot different when he is gone. I am just hoping this will lead him to accepting cooked fish for dinner. You'd think a man who can eat sashimi at 6am would be open to eating a cooked swordfish for dinner once in a while, but you would be wrong. A girl can dream right?