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‘cool drink of water, such a sweet surprise’

Posted by petunia 1 Aug 2010

this evening, like a calm and civilized adult (and to counterbalance the rest of the weekend’s adventures) i stayed in and experimented with the bounty of fresh cherries i had sitting in the fridge.

so, introuducing –  roasted sweet cherries with a warm vanilla sauce!

it went like this:

1.  preheat your oven to 450 degrees.  throw a bunch of cherries into a pie pan.

2.  combine 2 tablespoons brown sugar, a pinch of kosher salt, and a dash of pepper.  sprinkle on top of the cherries, so it looks like this:

3.  roast ‘em for about ten minutes. pull them out, and pour 1/4 of a cup of the liquor of your choice over top.  i used a mixture of amaretto and pomegranate liqueur.   put back in the oven and pull out after about five minutes and the liquid is bubbling:

4.  serve warm:

5.  if desired, top with warm vanilla sauce.  i used a german packet sauce mix i had by dr oetker, but, it’s not too hard to make from scratch.

6.  enjoy and mmmmmmmm.  happy summer!

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‘let alone stop it’

Posted by aubrey 27 Jul 2010

After four dense and cathartic posts, I’ve shrunk away again. Here’s why: I’m finally outlining a play that’s been percolating for years. And if I can figure out how to stage it, it might be one of the most different, exciting, meaningful, personal projects I’ve undertaken in years. Needless to say, I’m really fucking excited.

So I may shrink back away for a couple of weeks–I’m not sure how working this play out will impact my posting here. But I’ll be looking for readers soon, and you should let me know if & as you’re available to read it & offer your thoughts. You can reach me at aubreyh at gmail.

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‘a quiet revelation’

Posted by petunia

how embarrassing that i have been so terribly delinquent in the last week after making such a huge declaration to be back on here and writing just a few weeks before that.  embarked on what now feels like a whirlwind comeback/reunion tour as i blaze through dc, nyc, now richmond, then back to dc again, all in a week and a half.  it’s been exhausting but amazing.  have seen sooo many friends – jill & matt, carter, jenny, sara, cheri, jane, and jesse and tracey  tomorrow and wednesday.  i really feel like my batteries have been recharged, especially making my way through each of these cities in which i used to live and somehow realizing that those times were then and have led me to the place i am now.  it brings to me a real sense of peace i think i have been missing.

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i know, i know

Posted by tripp 25 Jul 2010

I know where I am and what to expect: I’m in a Starbucks on a Sunday afternoon, editing. But when did it become the place to have really loud cellphone conversations? Or loud Skype conversations with your headset?

I have 2 people, one on each side of me, speaking loudly. Is it really that difficult to keep your voice down or go outside?

Any yes, yes, I should go to the library, I know.

Hey, you kids! Get off my lawn!

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‘the dimming of the day’

Posted by aubrey 22 Jul 2010

Where the evening sky’s embers turn to ash is where you can find my love for you. Somewhere, in the muddle between aching vermilion and dying grey, I am there, gasping for the air our fire needs. And I know that you are there, too, in the space between our eager evening promises and our morning memory lapses. I know that you are with me when I reconsider, because you do, too.

In my work, I try not to talk about love. Supporters say “love is love,” and talk about their weddings, children, Thanksgivings, how things could change, how they could be valued and understood. It’s how they feel it; it is the loss they know; it makes sense to them.

But I say it is about surefootedness, about knowing that the ground beneath each of us will stay stable, and that we won’t feel the steady rumble of tectonic betrayal. That we don’t have to be the sad strangers suspended on display in the atmosphere, while the heavy blanket of gravity keeps everyone else earthbound and steady. That is the reason I shudder at shadows and flinch at touch, the reason I won’t call the doctor, the reason I confide in lawyers like priests. That is the reason I wake up so early and think so hard. That is the loss I feel. That makes sense to me.

And it makes sense to you, too. And that’s why I can’t do without you.

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the looks or the lifestyle

Posted by tripp 20 Jul 2010

I like to throw up a new design of MoG every so often, about once a year on average. I’ve designed 95% of them over the years because: 1. the site used to run on my own code, so I didn’t have a choice and 2. it was half of what I did for a living, so it seemed lame to not.

The current design (right this second) is one I dreamed up a while ago and took forever to actually get around to implementing. I never finished it either, which was a shame. But the cities you’ve been looking at for years are San Francisco and Boston. I was in one place; R was in the other.

But it doesn’t seem right anymore; she’s sitting three feet from me. Even worse, my free time recently has been nothing but finishing writing my latest novel. I don’t have energy right now to redesign the site. And there are about one zillion WordPress templates out there that can work. I’m kinda digging the P2 theme with a few tweaks.

Thoughts? Or others that look more interesting?

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‘i’m just going to hold my breath’

Posted by petunia

i stopped whining pretty quickly after that last post and decided that if given the clean bill of health by the surgeon today, i was officially off homebound life in a big way.  so, happily, the doc gave me the green light, and i have thus decided a few days in NYC are just what, well, the doctor ordered.  a couple phone calls, emails, online bus reservations, and voila – in 2 days i’ll be in new york.  ahhhhhhh.

my incision and i met each other unmasked for the first time today.  i have to admit, the way it looks fascinates me, especially its texture:

thanks to todd’s fascination with them and the influence of padma lakshmi‘s acceptance of her scar, i am not as freaked out as i once might have been.

i also look forward to telling anyone who may ask that my scar is the result of being stabbed in the back during a particularly tempestuous knife fight.

from wounds to….cooking?  sorry, i know that’s kind of awful.  it’s also kind of characteristic, which says a hell of a lot about this girl.  shrug.  but part of my getting ready to get out of town was using up a basket of produce that would otherwise go bad.  one of my favorite things in cooking is to have a particular ingredient i want to work with, and to work backwards to see what it is i can make with it.  today’s crop yielded loaves of banana bread, zucchini bread, and these funny little crumbly bars called squash hermits.

i lifted the original recipe from delicious living magazine and made my own modifications.  they come out looking like brownies, which made me screw up my face for a moment upon taking my first experimental bite.  however, after a moment my mouth settled into to tasting the interesting flavors and texture of this odd little concoction.  since my tastes tend to run more toward the bad-for-you end of the culinary spectrum, i am so pleased to have made something that doesn’t make me feel guilty for indulging.

Squash Hermits

1/4 cup white flour

1 1/2 cups whole-wheat flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

dash black pepper

6 tablespoons butter, room temperature

2 medium-sized yellow squash, puréed

3/4 cup molasses

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

1/2 cup sunflower seeds

1 cup dried cranberries

  1. In separate bowls, combine dry ingredients and wet ingredients. Mix together.
  2. Stir in chopped nuts and fruits and spread onto greased baking sheet.
  3. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
  4. Let cool; cut into squares.

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