ORChick's Not-a-Journal

[ORChick]

I couldn't continue if there were nothing to read. When we moved to this small city in Oregon DH and I had 2 absolute requirements - a few smaller ones too, but these 2 would have been deal breakers. There had to be a decent art center in the area (he is an artist - painter and ceramic sculptor), and the library had to be good. Both these requirements were met, and so we proceeded to look for a house. There are a few things missing here - the restaurant situation is really, really bad, but, so, I just cook more; that's OK - but at least the books and art are relatively nearby.

One of the most frustrating trips I ever took was to Japan some years ago. It was a great trip; so many interesting things to see, and do, and eat. I loved it! But ... I couldn't even sound out the street signs, or the billboards. Even in a strange (to me) language my eyes are always looking for things to read - and I couldn't do that in Japan :/. So frustrating!

 

[rathbone]

Yes. I read when I don't even realize I'm reading.

 

[Denim Deb]

I'll read anything that's in front of me-even if it's upside down and/or backwards. :/

 

[rathbone]

So the question is: what are we all reading right now?
I personally am not. Well I am sort of reading bits of books to help my students and reading books to my children but i am not yet settled on a book. I am wishing for animal vegetable mineral or something else by kingsolver.

 

[ORChick]

This time of year I spend a lot of my reading time reading through cookbooks - it just seems like a good thing to do on a cold evening . But I have a small stack of other books next to the couch. I am slowly working through a book on the life of Genghis Khan, loaned to me by my brother (he loans me the strangest books, but I am usually happy that I made the effort once I get through them ). I am also reading a library book about some of Oregon's history, and another called "Seeds of Deception", about GMO foods. And I haven't started it yet, but there is a book about Japanese picture brides coming to San Francisco that I need to read for my Japanese Book Club.

 

[Denim Deb]

Right now? I'm reading today's replies to most of the threads.

 

[ORChick]

My hens are slowly coming back *on-line*, and I'm getting around 3-4 eggs a day from the 10 of them. DH is laid up with a broken ankle, and seems to feel the need for more hot breakfasts than usual (because he is expending so much energy? Or maybe just for the comfort factor; this 3 months of non-weight bearing is getting really old ... and still another 4-5 weeks to go - sigh), but even so the eggs are starting to pile up. So I left a dozen with one of my neighbours today, as a thank you for the many times she has told me that she likes to hear the roosters crow! The next extra dozen will go to the other neighbour, for the same reason. How lucky for me to have 2 neighbours who almost insisited that I get a rooster when I first got chickens (And nobody else lives close enough that I worry about bothering them)

 

[Denim Deb]

OK, I want your neighbors!

 

[ORChick]

OK, I want your neighbors!

Sorry, can't have them They are worth gold, and not just because of the roosters.

 

[ORChick]

I have mentioned before that my DH was raised in Germany, and has quite different taste memories, and food prejudices from me. After almost 4 decades in the US, with me cooking for him , he has changed somewhat, but there are still a few sticking points. Corn, for instance. He likes corn well enough, but somewhere deep in his subconscious corn is still equated with pig food . He doesn't like cornbread, though if I bake it in Grandmother's cast iron corn stick pan ... well, that is a different thing entirely . Its because of the crispy crusty bits; he likes that. But I haven't been able to win him over to regular cornbread. Or, maybe now I have? I made some chicken chile last night, and did some corn bread in one of my cast iron skillets. I like cornbread, so I thought that maybe this time he could just deal with it . This evening we finished off the chile, and, lacking cornbread, I made biscuits (called them scones, as it goes over better). The only comment I got was "no more cornbread?"
Even after almost 38 years this guy can still surprise me