We've been walking with Joey to work every morning at 5:30. I love being up and watching the sun wake up and Joey and I have the best talks. I was laughing, thinking about all the random things we talk about. We talk about everything from Norwegian Death Metal to genetically modified foods. We also vent about life's little frustrations. We've really been able to connect more. I feel like I learn something new about him every day now.
The blackberries are ripe and Lu always has to have a bunch of them. Then of course, she has to say good morning to the chickens and horsies and moo-cows. The pigs are gone. They went to the fair and never came back.
I have to walk up a huge hill to get home. It makes me huff and puff.
When we get home, Lu usually asks for "eggy dop soup," or as they say in Human, "Egg Drop Soup."
When we get home, Lu usually asks for "eggy dop soup," or as they say in Human, "Egg Drop Soup."
Eggy Dop Soup
serves 2-3
about 3 c. chicken broth (homemade makes it 1000 times better)
a few handfuls of Swiss chard (or spinach, kale, etc.)
a few cloves of garlic, sliced
a T. or two of Tamari or dark soy sauce
salt and pepper
1 egg per person
Heat broth and Tamari, salt and pepper in pot on stove. Add chard and garlic before it boils. Put eggs in a bowl and beat lightly until combined. When broth is boiling, turn heat off and pour in eggs. Stir in circular motion to make "threads." I eat mine with a little squirt of Sri Racha hot sauce. Lu does not.
This has been a really great way for me to get Lu to eat dark greens. And I am always feeding her bone broths to help strengthen her teeth and overall immune system. And of course eggs are filled with wondrous goodness for all!
I took a little break from the 7 Habits book to get deep into Full Moon Feast.
serves 2-3
about 3 c. chicken broth (homemade makes it 1000 times better)
a few handfuls of Swiss chard (or spinach, kale, etc.)
a few cloves of garlic, sliced
a T. or two of Tamari or dark soy sauce
salt and pepper
1 egg per person
Heat broth and Tamari, salt and pepper in pot on stove. Add chard and garlic before it boils. Put eggs in a bowl and beat lightly until combined. When broth is boiling, turn heat off and pour in eggs. Stir in circular motion to make "threads." I eat mine with a little squirt of Sri Racha hot sauce. Lu does not.
This has been a really great way for me to get Lu to eat dark greens. And I am always feeding her bone broths to help strengthen her teeth and overall immune system. And of course eggs are filled with wondrous goodness for all!
I took a little break from the 7 Habits book to get deep into Full Moon Feast.
I bought it a while ago and skimmed through it a bit and tried some of the recipes, but I started reading it all the way through a few days ago and am almost done. I think you have to be ready for a book. If someone makes you read a book or you're pressured into it, you're just not going to get much out of it. But anyway, I was ready to read it and I really liked it a lot. Basically, the book is divided into chapters that are named after each moon. The moon names are names that ancient peoples called that particular moon. For instance, this Saturday, we are about to have the Corn Moon, when ancient people would begin to harvest their grain. So in each chapter, she talks about different issues surrounding food, with an overall theme that we should go back to some of the ways of our ancestors because it would be better for our health and the environment. In the Corn Moon chapter, she talks about how important corn was to Native Americans and how screwed up the corn industry has become. This isn't really news to me, but she does a great job laying out all the problems.
It's interesting how things go in cycles, isn't it? Of course, the moon has it's cycles, the seasons have their cycles, and ancient people (heck, even people 100 years ago) realized that and worked with the cycles of nature. Cycles are constant. They are a gift. They are predictable and constant, but when you screw with them, you begin a new cycle. We don't think about that today. Ancient people realized this. Take corn, for example. We decided to subsidize corm farmers to grow more corn. (OK, I don't even know where to jump in on the cycle here.) Big agriculture business decided to cash in on this. Now we have more corn than we know what to do with. But we can sell it for cheap now, so we can feed animals with it, and this is cheaper than grazing. So that starts a cycle of unhealthy and cruelly treated animals. We can also use it to sweeten sodas and pretty much all your packaged foods. This starts a cycle of bad health in humans. It's even cheaper for Mexico to buy corn from us than it is for them to grow it themselves, as they have been doing for hundreds of years. So this starts the cycle of joblessness and emigrating to the USA, where we need cheap labor for all the corn farms! Of course, I'm not even touching on genetically engineered corn. A lot of people think that this is no big deal, because "there are no studies" that show GM corn is unhealthy, but do we really need a study to tell us that it's a bad idea to eat corn that repels insects? Can't we just use good old common sense?
We have created a lot of crazy effed up cycles in the past 100 years. I hope we can figure out how to get back to respecting the earth's cycles.
It's interesting how things go in cycles, isn't it? Of course, the moon has it's cycles, the seasons have their cycles, and ancient people (heck, even people 100 years ago) realized that and worked with the cycles of nature. Cycles are constant. They are a gift. They are predictable and constant, but when you screw with them, you begin a new cycle. We don't think about that today. Ancient people realized this. Take corn, for example. We decided to subsidize corm farmers to grow more corn. (OK, I don't even know where to jump in on the cycle here.) Big agriculture business decided to cash in on this. Now we have more corn than we know what to do with. But we can sell it for cheap now, so we can feed animals with it, and this is cheaper than grazing. So that starts a cycle of unhealthy and cruelly treated animals. We can also use it to sweeten sodas and pretty much all your packaged foods. This starts a cycle of bad health in humans. It's even cheaper for Mexico to buy corn from us than it is for them to grow it themselves, as they have been doing for hundreds of years. So this starts the cycle of joblessness and emigrating to the USA, where we need cheap labor for all the corn farms! Of course, I'm not even touching on genetically engineered corn. A lot of people think that this is no big deal, because "there are no studies" that show GM corn is unhealthy, but do we really need a study to tell us that it's a bad idea to eat corn that repels insects? Can't we just use good old common sense?
We have created a lot of crazy effed up cycles in the past 100 years. I hope we can figure out how to get back to respecting the earth's cycles.
