marvellas

marvellas are heirloom tomatoes
coral red with delicate pale golden streaks
they are pretty and sweet / thin skinned &
not too many seeds

the marvella plant immediately produced two big green tomatoes
big like big as a softball / green as the green giant with no sign of red

hmmm i thought the plant would not produce any other tomatoes until the first two big ones were picked and / yes / eaten

Fried Green Tomatoes :

tomatoes need to be firm and crisp / slice into 1/4 or even 1/2 inch slices

dip in flour / dip in egg/water or egg/milk bath / dip in panko crumms

heat peanut oil hot not smoking / i like a large iron frying pan for fried green tomatoes

fry til crisp and golden on one side / turn and do the other

season with salt and pepper / whatever

our neighbors had never had a fried green tomato before

didnt know what he was missing

and yes after i picked the two big green ones the plant put out dozens more and they turned out to be these pretty pastel coloured Marvellas

how marvelous

tanka time for tomato world

(tanka : five lines with 5,7,5,7.7 syllables)

Tomatoes 2006 Part One

(5) tomato fatigue
(7) flourishing beyond belief
(5) can you name them all ?
(7) sun gold, thessalonika
(7) marvella, genovese*


Tomatoes 2006 Part Two

(5) big beef, early girl
(7) sugar snap, sweet one hundreds
(5) golden strawberry
(7) the neighbors' and the grandkid's
(7) green zebra, wait, that's only

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

*genovese in italian pronounciation : gen O vay zay

the authentic apology

not politician speak :

so sorry You were offended

(not my fault, bub, if you were offended)

authentic :

i was rude
i was an efn asshole
i dont expect you to forgive me

so dont make me feel worse by being gracious and understanding

heh

the Telephone Jones

a phonejones person
will answer the phone
no matter what
will jump out of a tub
or shower or put down
fork with luscious morsel
even interrupt love making
(yes, i have seen it happen_)


thank goodness for cell phones


phonejones person can be in touch every moment / hands free / ear piece firmly planted

and will call with every momentous bit of trivial minutiae / whether you are interested or not

but of course you are interested because you are the enabler and so you answer the phonejones summons because now it is your habit too / your addiction too / and because you have discovered that even when you dont answer and the phonejoneser leaves a message on your machine that the phonejoneser will just keep calling and leaving more messages and cannot wait for you to return its call so then your machine is all loaded up with messages / usually the same one "we havent talked for a while"

subtlety doesnt curb the onslaught / changing your number or heaving the answer machine out the window not appropriate at this time / time for the enabler to crack / lose her cool / lose her
control / hit the wall and turn into a raging a.....e

there

i said it and i am glad

and

that's my story and i'm sticking to it

PEACHES

peach season in se utah

breakfast :

handful grape nuts
handful homemade granola
(rather seedy and nutty)

a fresh peach

her skin slipped off and her seed removed
(she is a freestone)

she is golden rich juicy in a word PEACHY

with sunshine

skim milk or 2% milk or whole milk or soy milk or half n half to moisten the cereals and to

adorn the peach : un po di creme fraiche or a dab of sour cream or a drool of heavy cream

whew

one more thing to do before i die

make shrimp scallop bisque with the stuff in the freezer

oh yeah oh sure oh okay

any minute now

KitterZ the Perfect Cat, Part Two

kitterz the guest kitty settles in
she has climbed every tree
sat on every roof
(buildings and cars)
crouches in the open windows
at night keeping an eye on the locals

some of the locals are designated pets
others are feral who have been kindly
trapped and neutered and returned to
the neighborhood that trapped them
who are committed to continuing care
if needed

our community is a no kill zone for any animals that can be adopted, fostered, or returned to the wild (yeah, like deer and bears)

so ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

KitterZ "dad" came to get her the other day as he is in town for the week / she came when she heard his voice call her name / she headed for a door / one of the things she likes about my house are all the exits / one from every room / i like this too / smile

he took her away anyway / backing up to her travel cage so she wdnt see / hah

a couple of days later he called / she was relentlessly clamoring at him / demanding ! he said

she wont leave him alone ~ ~~ !!

next morning he brought her back

~~~~~~~~~


for "KitterZ the Perfect Cat" click on June 2006 in the Archive on the left / June 29

it's well, well water

our new water feature

~~~~~~gurgle~~~~~~~

we now have a livestock water trough

in the orchard

filled with well water

nice clean oasis water

warmed by the desert sun

it is so big / i dont know how many gallons / many many gallons

deep

when you sit on the bottom the water is up to your neck

you cd drown in this trough

but that wd be icky for whomever found you


(Mrs. Foley is standing by with a towel)

the 3 R's of self-torture

Regrets
Recriminations
Remorse

wallow wallow wallow

regret / oh i wish i hadnt done it / thought it / said it

recriminations / well you did / so whine and cry and boo freaking hoo

remorse / see how long you can indulge in feeling bad about yourself and then do it some more