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Chowing Down in Chanty Town
G:
Some nice people are moving away from Greenbelt, to NY. We went to
Katie and Renny's (and Lilian and Elias) going away party on Saturday
at Matt and Mimi's house. Us three residents of Chez Ginohn were the
first to arrive. I made a nut loaf that turned out to have needed more
time in the oven but was still pretty good. Veggie dogs and burgers
plus marinated tofu were grilled, on a separate grill from the corpses.
Katie always makes extremely delicious food. Simple sesame peanut
noodles she made were my favorite dish there. There were lots of kids
running around and lots of nice folks who I don't see enough. It poured
down rain shortly before we left. Chris came down from Philly that
evening.
J: I went on a
big hunt on Saturday
morning, just me and my
plastic grocery bag. The weather was hot and steamy, the woods felt
like a
rain forest—complete with sounds of approaching thunder—during the
whole hike. The mosquitoes stuck to my
skin and drowned in my sweat. I hiked for almost an hour before finding
some mushroom tracks. Initially I was looking for oyster
mushrooms but I
switched to chanterelles after seeing a few babies and strays. Most of
mushroom hunting has to do with knowing the favorite habitat and season
of each common variety. Occasionally the weather or the mushrooms
themselves will drop hints, then it's just a matter of knowing where
most of them live and what they like to grow on or near. Once I knew
that I was hunting for chanties it only took another hour searching
through chanty town to find the mother load. I picked a bag full,
brought them home and cooked them all in a big iron pan with basil,
yum. I ate a lot of them
then
put the rest in the fridge for later.
Sadly, later never came. Chris accidentally took them when
he left to go back to Pennsyltucky on Monday, thinking the plastic
container held
his leftover noodle dish he had eaten in DC. He called me later to
apologize, and also to add that the mushrooms were out-of-this-world
delicious. I was glad he enjoyed them, but it wasn't a fair trade. I
couldn't eat his hand-made
noodle dish because it had chicken corpses in it. Oh well, I'm hoping
to find more chanterelles in the woods soon.
On
Sunday night Renee had a birthday party for herself and Gina. I ate a
lot of really good food, met some people and had fun watching Izolda,
Gina, Maurwyn (sp?), Lori, and Jeff as they rotated positions and
"danced" to
Dance Dance Revolution. Later when no one was watching Rich and I tried
sitting on the mats and
hitting the pads with our hands, which worked as well for me as using
my feet (that is, not at all). It's an exhausting game and I'm as out
of shape
as I've ever been. I left the party early to get some sleep before work
the next day. Gina and Lori stayed and played a big game of Celebrities.
On Wikipedia
there's an excellent page about the late, great Jimmy Doohan, AKA
Scotty. I saw him give a talk once at NASA, with a lot of laughs and a
great question and answer period at the end. He came off as very
confident, charming, with some humility as well. He was truly a
renaissance man and a very likable fellow, and so say all of us. I'll
miss him and I didn't even know him.
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