Category: Living

Pairing Braise and Salad

Made a root veggie (rutabaga, carrots, potatoes, onions) with lamb braise. Tomatoes, tomato paste, and paprika made it rather monochromatic. Plating(!), and the shaved fennel and supremed orange salad by Dwight. Leftovers for dinner on Tuesday.

Categorized as Cook

Market Day

Well-maintained industrial ruins towered above while I waited in a socially distanced line at Mill City Farmers Market.

Standing up to Pillow Guy

No time to post today. Having way too much fun following my, er, nemesis, Senga Oberon ⁦@OberonSenga⁩ helping people back to the light

Categorized as Resist

Have Truck Will Cycle

Cycled with a friend, as I do every week when it’s dry and warm enough. We rode on a rail trail from a former train depot in Hopkins to Excelsior and back. I laughed the first time he appeared with this truck, but it’s great for transporting bikes, includ

Categorized as Cycle

Rising Above

On my multimodal jaunt (shared bicycles and walking), an artist took the opportunity for self-expression on some of the plywood that is temporarily ubiquitous in our community.

Categorized as Arts

National Guard in Minneapolis

Greeted National Guardsmen on my walk through the Minneapolis North Loop to a block where, in 1934, strikers were shot at by the police. Most were shot in the back, 67 were injured, two died. Martial law was declared, and the National Guard was deployed.

Mushy Peas

Picked up ethnic foods at Lands End Pasty Company in the Dinkytown neighborhood of Minneapolis: Cornish pasties, sausage rolls, and, drum roll please, a can of mushy peas. Takes me back to my childhood.

Categorized as Eat