Just bought Heidi Swanson’s super natural every day book and I have already cooked several inspirations from it: Granola, Farro soup, Spelt biscuits. My local shopping store, one of three big ones, is closing and they have had a markdown on some very gourmet items I have taken advantage of: All kinds of grains including Spelt flour I just made biscuits from. Red Bhutan rice I put in my weekly soup which includes Farro which is new to me. Then I bought nice shampoo and lotion too. Andronico’s on Telegraph, sad and all the closing, that a supermarket has so much inventory too. Boggling, all the items I would never have noticed due to their prices, it would have been a one item purchase if it came to that.
These are crazy orange segment thickened w/ butter, turbinado, ginger root, spelt and topped w/ chopped almonds, chocolate, orange slivers on my experimenting w/ TJoe’s puff pastry.
Went to San Francisco last week and visited the De Young and was zipping through the shows just looking at what interested me. Then one of the guards told me to look at the art on the ceiling, Sam, my old neighbor working at the DeYoung! That made my day/week/year. He actually showed me more details in the exhibits, it was jaw dropping his presence, just being there looking at him tell me about all that has been happening in his life since his family and him moved away years ago. I helped save his house I believe, years ago, typed up a note for him for a communication, sat in his tiny house attic, children all over the house. I even was there the time of his mom’s passing at his house, everyone coming by bringing food. I want to say more yet the feeling I can only convey is the feeling and emotion seeing into another person’s life on a deeper soulful level, only overwhelming if you try to hold on, you can only keep on taking it all in. I saw a lot, more than the art, or was it the art that prepared me? Observe, observe, then experience in real life!
