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| Tuesday's dinner: eggplant salad, squash, corn, and Ethiopian flatbread. |
The eggplant is the Indian eggplant salad from page 48 of The Enchanted Broccoli Forest by Mollie Katzen. It's a very excellent vegetarian cookbook and that particular recipe is delicious. I broke it out to help handle the eggplants coming out of the garden. So far I've only had to compost one that rotted before I could eat it, but they are starting to build up and I need to apply myself. It's far to easy to have an apple, some bread, and cheese for dinner which isn't terrible nutritionally but probably leaves my short of my five servings of fruit and veggies a day. This dinner had three servings all by itself though and when you add that to the blueberries and oatmeal for breakfast (the blueberries were from Canada by way of Costco but they were really good with an almost huckleberry flavor) I'm doing pretty well.
The other thing I'll be eating a lot of for a while is the squash. That's the one crop that did fabulously in the garden this year. I've got 10 butternut squash sitting in my big basket and I bet at least that many more still in the garden. I even bought a heavy duty vegetable peeler at Eastern Market to help deal with them. Fortunately I really like squash so this should not be a problem.
Here's my other really excellent dinner plate of recent days.
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| Sunday's dinner: A Cherokee Purple tomato with chevre, lettuce salad, and Alaska salmon. |
Of course what's not pictured is the leftover chocolate cake I had for breakfast. I make a layer cake, vanilla cupcakes, and chocolate cookies for the bake sale at St Augustine's end-of-summer fair. That was Saturday and it was also the SW Art Fest. We spent a while tabling about the community garden project. It was a fabulous day. Here's a couple of pictures I took down by the church so that you can see how nice it was.
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| Looking across the street to Arena Stage |
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| St. Augustine's, if you look closely there's an airplane flying out of DCA |
As a bonus for reading to the end of this rather rambling post, here's a provocative NY Times article arguing that bike helmets are bad for cycling. Basically the author is making the case that requiring helmets is a major barrier to cycling becoming normalized and the risks of brain injury from falling off a bike are no greater than the risk of falling off ladders or slipping in the shower. Requiring helmets for biking makes a relatively safe activity (statistically) appear much more dangerous so people just don't do it. Leading of course to the greater dangers of automobile congestion, air pollution, obesity, and heart disease.
So what do you think? To helmet or not to helmet?
1 comment:
While I disagree with the columnist that biking helmetless isn't dangerous, I actually shamefacedly agree with him that guilt-tripping people about helmets is a bar to people biking. Back when helmets first came into vogue, my parents well-intentionedly went out and bought me one. And I wore it a couple times. I agreed, after all, that safety-wise, it was totally a no-brainer. But I hated it so much, I just stopped biking. I didn't get on a bike again for about 15 years, until I inherited a bike from a fellow student, but not the helmet to go with it. Suddenly, I was biking everywhere again! So healthy! Such a great way to get around for the carless! If you did give me a helmet, though, I'm sure that back in the shed it would have gone. It's a hair thing. If you have long hair, you can't just toss a helmet on, you have to plan for it, with your hairdo. And then it's hot, and you wind up with helmet hair. I realize that this is no excuse, and I'm playing dice with my life. And I feel dreadfully guilty about it. But it doesn't really change the irrational calculation that means biking with a helmet is something I just can't be bothered with, and I'd rather not trouble with bikes at all than do the helmet thing.
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