§ Happy Easter

This was my first week back at work after a blissfully long spring break. It was honestly nice to see my students again—do I wish I had another week off, though? Absolutely.

§ I harvested and ate the oyster mushrooms I planted last week—they grew so much faster than I expected them to!

§ For the second time in just over a year, our washing machine suddenly decided to stop working. Home appliance shopping is always a pleasure.

§ Throughout the process of building my greenhouse, I keep going back to the daydream of owning some giant tract of land where I can build and experiment without concern for permits and zoning and neighbors. The freedom and space to create was one of the biggest motivators for me as I was moving back here from Chicago; it feels good to finally take advantage of that and I look forward to doing more.

I still want to visit Ryan Trecartin’s rural amusement park.

§ Links

§ Recipes

  • Spring orecchiette pasta with burrata
    • Really good but quite difficult to make well with brittle gluten free pasta. I’ll certainly try again another time with a different brand of pasta.
  • Moroccan chicken bowl
  • Mushroom pesto pasta
    • This is how I ended up using most of the aforementioned mushrooms. It was good, but perhaps it was not the best way to showcase them—the pesto was pretty overpowering.