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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Saturday, June 23, 2012

I've had some drama with my comments section so I thought I'd bring you up to speed.

At first, I had both word verification and I had to "modify" the comments, which means they are emailed to me and then I chose to publish them or not.

Then folks with smartphones were having trouble commenting because of the word verification. So I took it all away and people could comment all willy nilly.

Then the only comments I got were like 73028 spam comments and it really freaked me out. So now we're at the no word verification but you have to wait for me to publish it. So when your comment doesn't show up immediately it's because it is waiting in my inbox for me to publish it. I'd like to keep all the spam about new Nike shoes and random Asian phrases off of my blog. Just wanted to let y'all know, and with that said...please keep the comments coming! That's how I know people are actually reading this mindless junk I'm writing. Thanks!!!

Thursday, June 21, 2012

so i cooked a rutabaga...

Yeah, we can go ahead and add that to the list of things that I never thought I'd ~~say~~ err...type. How did this come about, you may be wondering? Well we decided to join a CSA with our friends Matt and Anna. Which basically means that you give a certain amount of money to a local farm and they in turn give you fresh produce each week (ours lasts from the beginning of June to November). I've been wanting to do one of these for years and I'm thankful our friends gave us a little push. It's really a great thing because the produce is 1) local 2)super fresh and 3) organic (our farm is, not all farms are). And it's pretty economical. So one of the fun/quirky parts of this deal is that you get whatever they are growing which brings us to last week...we got a rutabaga. Never have I even held one nor did I know how to cook it. So of course I went to my bestie, Google, for help. And I decided to prepare it this way. It was...interesting. It was kind of a pain to peel. The taste was good, they are similar to potatoes. Except there were these weird stringy things because I don't think I completely peeled it? Needless to say, it was interesting to cook and taste it but I think I'll stick to potatoes for that type of starch. However, if we get another rutabaga thrown our way I'm not opposed to cooking it again.

Now we have some beets, do y'all eat them? If so, how do you cook them?