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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2007-01-10 12:20 am

I gave my love a cherry that had no stone

My poem "Crossing the Line," which is about and dedicated to my mother, is now online at Goblin Fruit. Hello, internet publication!

From a recipe salvaged from one of the numberless back issues of Gourmet that were recently put out for recycling, my father and I made negimaki—like sushi, only with scallions and flank steak—last night. They were delicious. We couldn't find mirin for the marinade in the local liquor store, but that was the only hitch. Pounding the flank steak to a thickness of one-sixteenth of an inch was also peculiarly therapeutic. Our house smelled like a Japanese restaurant until this morning, when my mother made pear cake.

I had spam today from Jove Scroggins.

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2007-01-10 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
:) I enjoy the fact that Epi has a few decades of recipes to put at my fingertips, but old magazines are one of my joys. I was so bummed when they put the National Geographic Magazine CD's out without the old ads in them. How will I know how these people lived in the 1920's and '50's and '70's without their advertisements?

[identity profile] thewriteratwork.livejournal.com 2007-01-10 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I *love* the old ads in National Geographic. As I kid, I lived for the camera ads (and of course, the brand escapes me) -- they featured a different animal every month. I had a huge cache of '70s Nat Geos that I would pour through on rainy days and winter vacations...*happy sigh*

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2007-01-10 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Those were the Minolta ads! With the gorillas/hummingbirds/bats. They were great.

[identity profile] thewriteratwork.livejournal.com 2007-01-10 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
YES!!! They were so cool -- they always seemed to feature some small, furred animal I'd never heard of, and I'd be in swoons at the coolness of it.