Thursday, March 19, 2026

I guess I had stuff to talk about

the food dept
SAYS 

the Alabama hot slaw from the moosewood cookbook*

*it something like lunch at the moosewood or something like that it's my favorite one it's all soups & salads

is great on fish tacos 
& as a side
& on po boys

I guess 
moosewood makes me KINDA a hippy-ish
WHAT ---girlie

I remember seeing the broccoli forest cookbook 
on one of the shows when I was a kid

I'm pretty sure the author 
COOKED something 

& I was CHARMED by it somehow 
JUST attracted to the CONCEPT which was WHAT 

MAYBE 
there was an omelette recipe 
I was super into
OMELETTES

I'm not 💯 that I ever actually had the broccoli forest -- I think I did but it seems equally likely that WHEN you actually got old enough to GET yourself a cookbook 

I THINK you BOUGHT the LUNCH one

it was KINDA beautiful 
because the stories
HOW THIS 
BECAME 
a beloved dish, the person who brought the RECIPE 

& it was great because it was 
VERY SHARING 
they made it 
SO I felt
LIKE 
I had this WHOLE SENSE of the place 

I ENJOY a good cookbook

I KINDA think 
the broccoli forest was just one woman
BUT 
in the ensuing years 
the group had kinda worked it's way back in
& I think when I went to buy
BROCCOLI 

I had heard the scuttlebutt 
which was like MAYBE 
she didn't really have the rights to use
MOOSEWOOD 

I think I looked at whatever was available 
at THAT time 
but then subsequently
there are many
MORE 

I got some of those 
I should probably look at again
I got em thrift cheap on eBay 

& the STEW one
had a page ripped out 
& I MIGHT 

have bought a second copy
& been disappointed 
that it wasn't 
ACTUALLY 
the BEST 
RECIPE in the book 

OR 
that was a STORY I TOLD myself 
to KEEP myself FROM 
buying a second 
COPY 

I'm honestly not sure 
BUT 
my attempt to lay odds might be
don't bet against 
there being 
TWO books

it might not make sense, but just don't 


there's tai chi in a park I haven't been to 
BUT 
it's near things I know 
it's at a TIME 
when
TRAFFIC will be unavailable 
OR
a time TOO early 

I thought tai chi in the park SOUNDS fun 

then I'm all LIKE 
well then do you have other THINGS in the AREA 
I don't want to drive in traffic 

THREE we need to leave by three and have three hours of something planned in the AREA 

OR 
morning 

OR
I MEAN 
alternatively 

freak out at the IDEA of the park

there's a school of tai chi in the AREA that when I looked it UP
SEEMED 
to ONLY have free classes in parks

SO
MAYBE 
the school is one on one instruction 
idk
I think it might be awesome 
BUT 
I feel like I'm missing 
SOMETHING 

I have no 
CONTEXT
for
I MEAN 
do they program the park
I guess they DO
I went to the
PARK
website & looked at the calendar 
SO
do they pay the school 
OR
is it like a community thing
BUT 
if you like THIS we can show you MORE 

for an undisclosed amount


OH
it's late
SLEEP now
I LOVE you VERY much sweetheart 🫶