Beating the Heat
 

Forecast to be 100F+ today here in SoCal. As opposed to that bad
news, the pool is 78F, and breakfast was enhanced by the backyard.
Picked oranges and squeezed them for juice. Picked a lemon and some
basil leaves, and an Early Girl tomato. For some reason these early
tomatoes are growing only to about golf ball size. Taste good,
though. I sauteed some mushrooms with a sprinkle of lemon juice, then
added the chiffonade of basil and the diced tomato and the beaten
eggs. In a moment, tasty omelets. Would have been good without the
mushrooms, too. Later on there'll be fresh lemonade. I like
summer. -aem

Beating the Heat
 

aem wrote:
>
> Forecast to be 100F+ today here in SoCal. As opposed to that bad
> news, the pool is 78F, and breakfast was enhanced by the backyard.
> Picked oranges and squeezed them for juice. Picked a lemon and some
> basil leaves, and an Early Girl tomato. For some reason these early
> tomatoes are growing only to about golf ball size. Taste good,
> though. I sauteed some mushrooms with a sprinkle of lemon juice, then
> added the chiffonade of basil and the diced tomato and the beaten
> eggs. In a moment, tasty omelets. Would have been good without the
> mushrooms, too. Later on there'll be fresh lemonade. I like
> summer. -aem

This morning, I was in the Oriental food store
that recently opened near me, and I saw something
I've never seen before. It was a dried, nearly
spherical fruit about the size of a golf ball.

A few Google searches tracked down what it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siraitia_grosvenorii

According to this, one of its uses is to make
a "cooling drink" for use during hot weather.

I didn't buy any because I didn't know what
it was at the time, but maybe I will the next
time I'm there. There was a warning on the
package to boil it for 10 minutes before
consuming.

Beating the Heat
 

On 2008-06-20, Mark Thorson > wrote:
> it was at the time, but maybe I will the next
> time I'm there.

Leave out the tiger penis and maybe you won't be such a dick.

nb

Beating the Heat
 

Mark Thorson wrote:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siraitia_grosvenorii
>
> According to this, one of its uses is to make a "cooling drink" for use
> during hot weather.
>
> I didn't buy any because I didn't know what it was at the time, but
> maybe I will the next time I'm there. There was a warning on the
> package to boil it for 10 minutes before consuming.

That's why it's a cooling drink. You drink it while it's cooling. :)


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Beating the Heat
 

aem wrote:
> Forecast to be 100F+ today here in SoCal. As opposed to that bad
> news, the pool is 78F, and breakfast was enhanced by the backyard.
> Picked oranges and squeezed them for juice. Picked a lemon and some
> basil leaves, and an Early Girl tomato. For some reason these early
> tomatoes are growing only to about golf ball size. Taste good,
> though. I sauteed some mushrooms with a sprinkle of lemon juice, then
> added the chiffonade of basil and the diced tomato and the beaten
> eggs. In a moment, tasty omelets. Would have been good without the
> mushrooms, too. Later on there'll be fresh lemonade. I like
> summer. -aem

for me, only the fresh produce & fruit make the summer liveable. the
temp will probably be around 105f, here in azusa. i kicked on the air
when the thermometer hit 85f inside of the mobile.

OB food, i'm making up a batch of chopped liver. i don't like chicken
liver, so i'm using beef got it fried up, and the next step is to
saute the onions, pulse the hardboiled eggs in the cuisinart, add
kosher salt, a small bit of beef fat, and mix together.

harriet & critters...all of us are hiding from the heat.