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Adventure Begins in the Kitchen

Homemade Pops

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Homemade Popsicle

It’s hot, hot, hot time again!  That hot kinda time when all you want to eat is super cold chicken salad and even colder popsicles.  It’s totally here.  And I’m totally down with it.

Popsicle Ingredients

I stumbled upon this recipe when looking for simple popsicle combos.  I swapped out pineapple juice with a cup of frozen mango.  And then I only used a cup of canned coconut milk because sometimes I… can’t read so good.  Also, I bet they meant this kind of coconut milk.

Homemade Popsicles

Even though these pops turned out more banana-y and less coconut/mango-y than I was hoping for, they were still guiltlessly refreshing after a 100-degree afternoon run.  I imagine my next take will have coconut extract, frozen pineapple and… maybe some rum.

Being Playful

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I had a completely different plan tonight.  One that went something like skipping a workout, heading to Sound & Cinema at the Long Center, and braving a crowd.  And then I didn’t want to do it.  I wanted to swim.  And then I wanted Dickie’s spaghetti and the comfort of their house in our neighborhood.  I filled him in on the plan I planned and walked the long way, stopping at my favorite gas station to pick up some tall boys to go with dinner.

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I thought a lot of thoughts during this walk.  I thought about why we stop playing and, specifically, when I stopped playing.  I thought about how the younger kids on my block would knock on my door after school and I’d let the dog out and we’d all run around through our yards until we were Florida sweaty.  And then I thought about the point in which that became unappealing and I began to say no.  The point when I had other things to do, fourteen year-old things to do.

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And then I thought about my life since moving to Austin and the friendships here that have become the strongest.  And until this long thinking walk, I thought we’d all become so close because we’re dreamers and do-ers and we find joy in one another’s dreaming and doing.  But tonight it became so, so clear why I’ve fallen fast in love with my friends in Austin and the city itself – I started playing again.

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And Austin makes a darn good playground.

Green Tomato, Kale & Goat Cheese Frittata

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Green Tomato Frittata

The ability to schedule a Greenling Local Box delivery for the day after you return from vacation is a good, good thing.  Not touching the veggies and hoping they’re still good a week later is a totally different story.  But finding out the veggies that you were most excited about working with, the green tomatos, were still usable a week later…  More good.

Green Tomatoes

Being a tomato disliker for almost three decades, it came as no surprise when I realized I had no idea what to do with these things.  Would they even taste like red tomatoes?  No clue.  I turned to Google.

Fried Green Tomatoes

I used this NY Times recipe as my guide, using kale and goat cheese in lieu of herbs.  The green tomatoes were much more tart than I was expecting, even though the article described them as acidic.  But the surprise was welcomed when I tasted how nicely the tart matched up with the goat cheese.