Last weekend was HOT in Cambridge, and even stove top cooking was painful. Anticipating a similarly hot week ahead, this week was featured lots of salads: a black bean and corn salsa to use the 8 ears of corn and some of the tomatoes I got from my half of a Red Fire Farm CSA Food Share, a shell pasta + caprese salad that made good use of fresh basil (and more of the tomatoes!), standard lettuce side-salads and a veggie-full cheesy polenta I whipped up on Wednesday night when I finished the salsa.
The best of the week's meals? The salsa, hands-down. Check it out for yourself here: http://www.food.com/recipe/black-bean-and-corn-salad-dip-66294
29 July 2011
28 July 2011
in the sky
This week, I learned that an asteroid has been named for my friend Michele, who we lost this past spring. While it's dubious I'll ever find asteroid 15338 myself perusing the night sky (it's one of the many asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter), I'm glad it's up there.
26 July 2011
Back to Blogging!
I have to apologize. It's been almost 13 months since I wrote my last post from Cambridge, England. The back posts I promised from the UK (and travels during that time) aren't coming--although many of them got polished up and put together in a photobook I finally ordered last weekend.
All in all, I'm doing well. I'm now a second year graduate student. Maybe as a result of a stressful (and very busy) first year, my daily life has seemed less exciting than it was when I was living abroad. Weeks have been lab-o-rific and the occasional weekend trips I take are to visit people, not places. My day-to-day stories just don't have that 'zing' that makes me want to blog.
That said, I'm re-starting this blog a more eclectic format. Posts will include what's been on the stove (or in the oven) this week and some occasional posts about the corners of the technological, scientific, artistic, and physical (Cambridge-MA-centric) world that are presently occupying my thoughts. No regular posting is promised, but I plan to be a bit more active than I've been in the last 13 months ^_^
Happy reading!
All in all, I'm doing well. I'm now a second year graduate student. Maybe as a result of a stressful (and very busy) first year, my daily life has seemed less exciting than it was when I was living abroad. Weeks have been lab-o-rific and the occasional weekend trips I take are to visit people, not places. My day-to-day stories just don't have that 'zing' that makes me want to blog.
That said, I'm re-starting this blog a more eclectic format. Posts will include what's been on the stove (or in the oven) this week and some occasional posts about the corners of the technological, scientific, artistic, and physical (Cambridge-MA-centric) world that are presently occupying my thoughts. No regular posting is promised, but I plan to be a bit more active than I've been in the last 13 months ^_^
Happy reading!
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