One of six apple trees we planted:
Duchess of Oldenburg
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world
John Muir
Rob writes: I’m challenging myself to make stuff I always thought I would make but never did. Today, it’s kimchi. I was attracted to a recipe by a Korean gentleman who wrote about watching his mother make kimchi.
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This is a hands-on process that calls for first massaging the salt into the cabbage.
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Then a triple rinse to wash off the brine.
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Next make the spice paste. Here ginger, garlic, gochugaru, some sugar, and fish sauce.
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Stir that around while the cabbage dries a bit more and add the other vegetables, daikon radish and scallions.
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Time to put on the gloves, add the cabbage, and massage the paste onto every surface of every ingredient.
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Find the recipe here.
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To loosen with all ten fingers held wide and limber
And lift up a patch, dark-green, the kind for lining cemetery baskets,
Thick and cushiony, like an old-fashioned doormat,
The crumbling small hollow sticks on the underside mixed with roots,
And wintergreen berries and leaves still stuck to the top, —
That was moss-gathering.
But something always went out of me when I dug loose those carpets
Of green, or plunged to my elbows in the spongy yellowish moss of the marshes:
And afterwards I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,
As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;
Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,
By pulling off flesh from the living planet;
As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.
Mallow
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