Tomorrow we make pumpkin pie. PS My turkey turned out great. Grandma Yordy would have been proud, I hope!Thursday, November 27, 2008
Cheers! I am thankful for my Grant family. Mummy, Rupe, Steve, Lorna, Janel, Jackson and Isaiah: it was a great day! Turkey, ham, mac and cheese, rice and peas, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, yam, cranberry sauce, fried plantain, curry shrimp, rolls, and an avocado that rocked my world. Then on to dessert: chocolate babka, strawberries, rum raisin icecream with tia maria, tea, coffee...life is good! When is it reasonable to start thinking about seconds?
Tomorrow we make pumpkin pie. PS My turkey turned out great. Grandma Yordy would have been proud, I hope!
Tomorrow we make pumpkin pie. PS My turkey turned out great. Grandma Yordy would have been proud, I hope!
Thanksgiving Morning
I can't believe I am making my first turkey. It's in the oven now and everything seems to be fine. But for a girl raised on a turkey farm, you'd think I'd be an expert. Grandma Yordy always made the turkeys--we always had more than one--and filled the table with plentiful goodness. I always sat at the kiddie table where we younger cousins had to eat some of grandma's less stellar creations like a pear with clove eyes and cherry nose. But the smell of thanksgiving will never leave me and the happy times with my cousins was the best. I hope I can give that to my boys. Click on http://www.blogofjoan.blogspot.com/ to read my twin's blog about our upbringing on the farm and see a pic of the great Robert N. Yordy, our late grandfather.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Fare thee well Fair Carol B!
Sleeplessness
My insomnia is perplexing. Three nights of being tired but unable to sleep until 2:30 or 3 am. Then when I did fall asleep, Isaiah woke me up and made me go downstairs to get him a banana. He fell asleep holding a banana and I was awake again for an hour. The upside, I'm having some very creative ideas. Some of them seem a little weird in the light of day but overall, they're pretty good.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Multi-colored carrots
Call me obsessed but I went to another farmer's market today. This one in neighboring Claremont. They had multi-colored baby carrots, dozens of orchids, fingerling potatoes, enormous avodacos, home made flat bread, hummous, taboulleh, fresh squeezed orange juice and--you guessed it--a dozen varieties of gorgeous field mushrooms.Who am i kidding? I loved it!
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About Me
- Jean
- 1,971 miles from Nashville where my identical twin lives.
- I was raised on a Mennonite Farm in Illinois. From the cornfields I made my way to inner city Philadelphia to live and work with kids who were the poorest of the poor but the brightest kids in the world. Later I took food and clothing to the homeless and prostitutes on the streets of NYC who opened my eyes to real poverty of spirit. Later I created fundraisers for AIDS patients, taught 2nd language learners about poetry, film and beauty and finally came to higher education to meet some of the most innovative, courageous and funky grads you could ever meet--at a place called Pitzer College. I live for moments of beauty and flashes of enlightenment. Sometimes life is just burnt out ends of smokey days (T.S. Eliot)or an ordinary cup of coffee. And sometimes it's that delicious misty morning overlooking Lake Atitlan in Guatemala in 1984 that I can never get out of my head. Ever. Either way, this story is going some where. Come along, if you like.
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