The Days Of Wyrd

The hot weather doesn't deter me from cooking.  I think good food is just as important when it's hot, as any other time, maybe even more.  The heat seems to deplete more than water, nutrients, minerals, blah blah.  Eating good stuff just seems to make me feel a whole lot better.  Makes the family happy too.

So I'm on a bit of a cooking frenzy.  Tonight we had hamburgers with lots of fresh tomatoes, home-grown lettuce and onions to pile on top.  And some home-made bread to make things really special.  For dessert:  Hot apple crisp from the apple pie filling I canned last year.  With real home-made whipped cream and extra vanilla.   

Here's my recipe.

Apple Crisp 

1 Quart Jar Apple Pie Filling

1 cup brown sugar, packed (I use white sugar and add a couple tsp of black strap mollasses.)
1/2 cup flour (white or wheat, whichever)
1/2 cup rolled oats
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
6 Tbs butter 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Heat apple pie filling slowly on low heat.  You don't want too cook it into gush, just heat it up a bit.  Butter a baking pan, I like to use a glass pyrex pan that is approx. 11 X 7, and set aside.  If you like your apple crisp a little deeper use an 8 X 8.

In a bowl, mix all the dry ingredients together until well mixed.  Then cut in the butter until the mix is crumbly.

Put your heated pie mix in the prepared pan and sprinkle the dry topping all over it.  Bake for about 30 -35 minutes. 

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After the sun started to go down, it cooled to 90 degrees on the porch.  I have been watering constantly today.  Not only is this heat dangerous for plants, but it also poses a massive threat to us used-to-cool-weather coastal beings.  Thank goodness I have trees and plants, it turns my zone into a balmy jungle region instead of a desert wasteland. 

I kept the house closed up today, (mostly because kitty got herself in another scrap and had an abscess, requiring her to have a drain put in, meaning no outside), and the ceiling fan on.  Everytime I thought I was going to die from the heat, I just went outside, where it was 20 degrees hotter.  I cannot imagine that tomorrow will be even hotter.  Is this possible? 

It's a perfect evening for that walk on Sunset Beach. 

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Because it's my last of two real workdays.  I'm exceedingly lucky however, even my work is fun.  And it's not the only REAL work I do.  Just the part of work which I actually have to leave home for. 

Anyway.

Mother's day recap:  I got a truckload of gorgeous compost.  I also sent a truckload of compost to my mommy.  Derek's present to us both was to unload said compost.  Considering the tropical weather we are having, the dirt came just in time.  Soon you will be seeing pictures of my gardening antics.  And that's not a lie, like it was the last time, when I said I would give you my bread recipe later in the week and I did not.  But don't worry.  You will get that too.  Promise.

And just to show you I mean business, here's a pretty picture for you.

I have no idea who any of these people are. 

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A 4.3 earthquake 63 miles west of Eureka California.

There was also a 5.1 145 Km from southwest of Kodiak, Alaska, earlier today.

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It's been a cold and windy blowhole on the coast.  Big, cold destructive blasts of North Pole wind make it impossible to be outside and be happy.  Last night we actually had ice on our car windshields.  Bleah.

The basil I put out too early just shriveled up and croaked.  But did that teach me?  Heck no.  I'm still putting things out.  It's my sink or swim program.  It's also the only way I can empty out my crammed full greenhouses.  So I can start some more things.  Stop looking at me that way.

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