5.2.10

enjoyitwhileitlasts cookies

dear ............,

nothing lasts, so i've been enjoying life lately with the knowledge that it won't ever be exactly like this ever again. the weathers nice, the garden's growing, the house is peaceful, there are new fun projects going on, we've been having art day every weekend and cooking the best food i've ever eaten.

here is a brief menu from the last 3 weekends:

fried eggs and onions. grilled buffalo steak with tamatillo verde sauce, asparagus, grilled pineapple and polenta. peanut butter cookies with apricot jam. polenta cakes with salsa. coconut french toast with marionberry syrup.

grilled flank steak rubbed in roasted pablano, jalapeno, garlic, cilantro, and lime. chard with mustard seed and tomatoes, dashed in vinegar. sauteed onions and mushrooms and grilled asparagus.

chicken roasted with potatoes, carrots, yams, onions, garlic and brussel sprouts and reduced in white wine, broth, and butter and covered in "sauce" (not gravy. we do not call it that. we are not barbarians) and almond orange cookies with candied orange peel and cream whipped with fresh orange juice.

we eat. and draw, and write stories, and make bath salts and sugar scrubs, and write songs, and watch tv in the attic theater, and eat, and walk through gardens to beaches, and make t-shirts, and listen to good music, and make new music, and eat, and sit on the porch, and garden, and explore new places, and lay around dolores, and go to concerts, and laugh, and take photos, and sleep in real piles, and talk, and eat.....

we've been going through about a pound of butter a weekend. nothing is lame and everything is awesome.

you should come visit.

xo

m*