1. The next book I'm reading from Leah Sottile's list is American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & The Oklahoma City Bombing. The author's, Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck, earned the trust of McVeigh and in April of 1999 he talked to them for about 75 hours. He told his story. McVeigh (nor anyone else) was compensated financially for his cooperation and McVeigh had no rights of approval. He confessed to the bombings. He told his story. Michel and Herbeck also interviewed about 150 people ranging from childhood friends to the psychiatrist who testified in McVeigh's defense at trial as they researched McVeigh's life and the bombing itself.
I've just started this book.
Michel and Herbeck are establishing that McVeigh's western New York small town family is unremarkable.
If they write about something out of the ordinary in McVeigh's growing up years, I'll convey it in this blog.
2. I used to write short essays on this blog.
Some of those pieces were in response to prompts Christy, Carol, and I gave each other as Sibling Assignments. Others grew out of prompts from a project that ended about eleven years ago called Sunday Scribblings.
I've begun to go back and look at prompts the two women who ran Sunday Scribblings used to give us participants.
I don't know if I'll follow through, but after Sidnee messaged me, asking about my writing routine, it got me thinking that writing those somewhat longer than 3BTs posts all those years ago was fun and that I might enjoy returning to being guided by the old Sunday Scribbling prompts.
3. When we lived in Greenbelt, Maryland, I got on a really enjoyable eggplant jag.
I loved (yes loved!) going to the Greenbelt Co-op or to Mom's Organic Market in College Park and picking out eggplants.
I have returned to repeating this eggplant extravaganza by shopping at Pilgrim's Market whenever I'm in CdA -- mostly on my way home from kidney maintenance at Sacred Heart.
Today, I decided to do something with the eggplant that I purchased at Pilgrim's over the weekend.
I wondered if I could find a recipe or figure something out combining eggplant and pasta.
Well, thanks to the magic of the World Wide Web, I found a very simple recipe for eggplant pasta sauce.
It intrigued me.
So, I chopped up red and white onion and cubed the eggplant.
I did something I've never done before: I boiled the eggplant cubes for about five minutes while I sautéed the onion.
I added the boiled eggplant cubes to the onion, in the wok, and sautéed them together for another couple of minutes or so.
I then set up the blender, transferred the onion and eggplant into the blender, added some half and half, and blended it. I added a little eggplant water to the emerging sauce to thin it out a bit.
I tasted it.
The only seasoning I'd used was salt and pepper.
Then I experienced a revelation -- not quite divine, but a good one!
This sauce would taste even better with clams.
I opened a can of clams, poured the juice into the sauce, poured the sauce into a storage container, and sprinkled the clams over the top of the sauce.
Upon Debbie's arrival, I heated the sauce, boiled some Garofalo pasta, and set out some shaved and grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese.
It worked.
I mean it REALLY worked!
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