1. Back home.
I got caught up on my writing, almost,
and uploaded the pictures I took in Harwich and posted them. It made me
very happy that several friends enjoyed the pictures.
2. I bought a ton of kale the other day at
Costco and I never got around to making the chicken soup I was going to put it
in, but today I found a tasty kale lentil potato soup recipe, cooked it up, and
every sample I tasted was terrific. As I
was making this soup, I thought of comments I've read about kale being a fad
food. I smiled. For me, the kale fad began back in about 1981 when Dan and
Betsy Newell invited me over for dinner and served up the kale they were
growing in their backyard garden. I've
enjoyed it ever since. Oh! And chard, too.
3. The Deke had a dental appointment in Bowie at
about the least convenient time imaginable to drive there. Our Subaru was one of about a million other
cars traveling the suburban labyrinth between Greenbelt and Bowie. I dropped
the Deke off and, knowing I'd accidentally left a stove burner on simmer
underneath the lentil soup, I made my way back to Greenbelt to turn the burner
off.
I endured the stop and go Beltway traffic and then threaded my way through
the suburban labyrinth again to pick the Deke up.
We crawled back
to Greenbelt on the Beltway and decided to relax by driving on to Beltsville,
normally ten minutes from Greenbelt, but about a half an hour this evening.
The effort was
worth it.
The Deke worked
her way through a pint of the heavenly and hoppy Flying Dog Imperial IPA called
The Truth and I savored the piney start and citrusy second verse and slightly
sweet and pleasingly bitter finale of Great Divide's Titan IPA.
For dinner, we
split a burger called the Walking Dead, a pepper crusted chunk of ground beef
dressed with blue cheese and mushrooms -- a burger too big for either of us and
perfect to share. We added an order of tasty truffle fries. Soon the memory of
crawling our way to Bowie and back disappeared into a lovely, hedonistic fog.
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