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The Cat That Ate Shiitakes
Aug. 11th, 2005 11:31 amRemember a few weeks ago when I mentioned spending a great Sat evening with bobtshirt and his wife Michelle delightfully doctoring up a foul example of cheap office art? The crazy cat poster? Well, guess what I ran into yesterday. The cat picture lives! Its hanging on the wall of the textbook offices in the student stores!
I went to the farmers market in Carrboro yesterday and it is amazingly great. Go on Wednesdays, not Saturday. Saturday there are too many tourists-types bumping into people and the prices are higher. On Wed, traffic is low and occasionally the farmers throw in freebies because they don't want to carry stuff home. The current reason I'm so glowing about the farmers market right now is more specific, however. There was a guy with heaps of organically grown shiitake mushrooms. Cheap! I was a bit shocked by the 10 dollars a pound so I only grabbed a handful. 75 cents for a nice handful and a lovely stir fry. If he has more I'm getting a few handfuls next time. I've never had the pleasure of cooking with very fresh shiitakes before, and they were lovely. Velvety, buttery, mmmm.... Not morels, but really good nonetheless. I want more.
We watched a terrible movie last night: The Cars That Ate Paris. If you have an urge to watch it, just save yourself the bother and read Animal Farm. It'll be more pleasant, I assure you. And if you make a movie featuring an anti-hero as the main feature, please make sure he is cute, at least.
Now I must be a busy bee and get some things done. Yesterday I spent 3 hours on a GIS tutorial (one of the few perks of paying my tuition is that I get access to ESRIs incredibly expensive Arc courses) and it kinda wiped my proposal revision plans. Back at it!
I went to the farmers market in Carrboro yesterday and it is amazingly great. Go on Wednesdays, not Saturday. Saturday there are too many tourists-types bumping into people and the prices are higher. On Wed, traffic is low and occasionally the farmers throw in freebies because they don't want to carry stuff home. The current reason I'm so glowing about the farmers market right now is more specific, however. There was a guy with heaps of organically grown shiitake mushrooms. Cheap! I was a bit shocked by the 10 dollars a pound so I only grabbed a handful. 75 cents for a nice handful and a lovely stir fry. If he has more I'm getting a few handfuls next time. I've never had the pleasure of cooking with very fresh shiitakes before, and they were lovely. Velvety, buttery, mmmm.... Not morels, but really good nonetheless. I want more.
We watched a terrible movie last night: The Cars That Ate Paris. If you have an urge to watch it, just save yourself the bother and read Animal Farm. It'll be more pleasant, I assure you. And if you make a movie featuring an anti-hero as the main feature, please make sure he is cute, at least.
Now I must be a busy bee and get some things done. Yesterday I spent 3 hours on a GIS tutorial (one of the few perks of paying my tuition is that I get access to ESRIs incredibly expensive Arc courses) and it kinda wiped my proposal revision plans. Back at it!
