I live with my Mom and Dad and their weimaraner "Spencer". My Dad has multi infarct dementia

We all come from Vermont and we grew up during the 60's and 70's. One of our favorite things is cooking and so we try and stay sane by writing about cooking. I have an old cookbook from Rutland VT called "Out of Vermont Kitchens that we are going to try and cook from and see what the food tastes like.

The cookbook has some prepared foods in some of the recipes. But we will try and adapt them perhaps to modern cusine.

We also try other recipes but will dive into our Vermont roots as often as we can.

Marion Ballou Smith
The daughter of Orris and Margaret (Mageen) Ballou, Marion Ballou Smith grew up in Rutland, Vermont, graduated from Mount Holyoke College (1914), and taught botany and mathematics. In 1927 she married Esme A.C. Smith, a businessman in Rutland. Active in local business and civic affairs, Smith was the co-compiler, with Alice Chaffee Bowker and Ruth Sutton, of a fund-raising cookbook entitled Out of Vermont Kitchens, published in 1939, to benefit the Trinity Mission of Trinity Church in Rutland, and the Women's Service League of St. Paul's Church in Burlington, Vermont.

2.02.2010

Planning the garden

I am missing the fresh vegetables from our garden. I'm one of those salad-eat'in ladies that looks at the salad offerings on a menu before anything else. This is the part of the winter where the salads get made with greens from scary places in California flatlands where the air is seasoned with bug sprays or even worse, chemically green Chilean fields.

I bought some hydroponic red-leaf lettuce while in Ithaca last week and its slightly better than the stuff we get from Wegmans or Sams but I'm still missing the lettuce and greens from the garden. There was still life in the leaves. These winter lettuces from far away have so little taste.

I've got so many ideas for this coming season. I think more ideas than I have time. Plus I'm not sure what's going to be happening with my father's health. But I've got to sit down and order seeds, think about where I'm going to plant them and if I'm going to have my farmers market canopy happening this coming summer.

I am going to try and get involved with Rep Eric Massa's re-election and hopefully protest the Supreme Court decision to allow corporations to fund their choice of candidates and buy their way into office. The Supreme Court never saw any of the Terminator movies I guess.

Dad sat down to breakfast and poured almost an entire pitcher of maple syrup into his coffee. I think its better to just feed him easy food like cold cereal and toast and not entrees that require condiments like maple syrup. He can't seem to put associated things together now. He can't find the cupboard or the container for the donuts we buy him anymore. Spencer points at the cupboard while drooling on the kitchen tiles to give him a hint but he doesn't get it.
Posted by Kimberly at 9:00 AM

2 comments:

Matt Sutkoski said...

Re: The garden. All gardeners are more ambitious than reality, but that's part of the fun. If you don't have time and a few weeds grow, so what? Do you think Martha Stewart or someone like that really cares?

Re: Corporations and campaign finance, Heard a scary thought. The Supreme Court ruled that in terms of the First Amendment, a corporation is a "person." So it follows they'd be persons under all the amendments. So under the second amendment, they have the right to bear arms. Would that mean Exxon Mobil could have a private army?

February 2, 2010 at 7:40 PM
Kimberly said...

Thats a terrible thought! But Blackwater proves you right.

February 4, 2010 at 7:27 PM

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