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My friend Yvonne gifted me 18 duck eggs last week. I live
alone, this is excessive even for a man who thinks carbonara is an appetizer. A day later my neighbor dropped off some misshapen chanterelles. After one
exceedingly rich mushroom omelet – and it wasn’t the tablespoon of butter I cooked it
in, I still have 16 eggs. Duck eggs are usually a little bigger than chicken
eggs, The taste isn’t ducky or strong, but they are rich. Just imagine if you
cracked open an egg and it was all yolk. I pretty much wish I could paint my
walls that saffron/gold color and I could and with 18, now 16 eggs I probably
have enough to do it in tempera.
Some of the eggs will get used for tonight’s dinner of
Chicken Paprikash/Paprikas Csirke or for a select few Paprikas Tofuke. Although, rich and velvety, the sauce doesn’t use egg – it's sour cream and stock. Rather the
eggs will be mixed into nokedli, the Hungarian analog to spätzle. The rest of
the eggs will get mixed into an apple-scented pastry cream for dessert.
NPR beat me to the punch: A few days ago I saw thus rather
appalling headline on the Kaiser Health website Indoor
Cooking Kills 2 Million Annually. I made a note, wanted to do some research
and write about it later this week. Instead, my newsenemies over at Public
Radio filed
this report today and then despite cliched expectations didn’t break into once to ask for money in exchange
for a totebag and promising to unchain Steve Inskeep from his microphone at the end of the pledge drive - well
played NPR, well played.
Oh yeah, this.
Finally, this is probably the last post I will compose on
this computer. After 9 years, 2 computers and one new hard drive later, the macbook era is over.
While people were lining up to buy the new iphone last week, I remembered Steve
Jobs by ordering my first Dell. My smarter-than-me phone has changed the way that
I use computers – where once a laptop meant portable and accessible, in the era
of email on my mobile, a mac laptop just means expensive. Even if I find
the mac air the sexiest piece of machinery ever built, I can’t justify the
$1000+ when all I really want is to have a portable computer that I can use in my two
favorite writing places in bed or on the couch.
But this mac, now 5 years old, we have accomplished so much together, I have been opening it up everyday for 2 months wondering if this will be the day it freezes up and dies hating to let go despite the slow processing and the labored noise coming from the processor. It’s stupid to have a sentimental attachment to a processor
and an airport card, but this is the computer that I have composed 99% of these blog posts, written a book proposal, done job billing on - that's right I got paid using this mac. With so much
history, I don’t know if I should frame it or give it to Free Geek.
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