August 11, 2011
What Heat Wave? No, Seriously.
The obligatory summer salad shot, fancied up with a newly discovered circular cropping tool.
Everything in this salad—lettuce, carrot, cherry tomatoes, lemon cucumber and celery (minus the cheese and inadvertently slightly undercooked egg)—came from my garden.
The catch? This is it. This is The Salad of the Year. The Only Salad of the Year. Why? Well, let’s see if I can explain with another photograph (perhaps not cropped with the circular tool which has revealed itself to be supremely tacky). See the tree with the white blooms?
Today is, what, August 11? That tree usually blooms in April. By way of further illustration, I had the heat on three weeks ago.
I am consoled by the fact that the salad was delicious. And that, with enough lettuce, you can pad any food to make it look big.
Posted by Ryan at August 11, 2011 06:56 PM1. Circular cropping tool? Tell me more.
B. I cannot help but notice that you are posting more. Could this be a sign of things to come? I hope so -- I've missed you.
I went outside today and though, wow, what a great day! Fall must be coming. (And the car's thermometer read 106.)
Posted by: Kitten on August 11, 2011 08:54 PMI understand. Our weather has bounced all over the place this summer, but we have had both scary warm (triple digits in Boston with normal Boston humidity is disgusting) and plenty of days where it didn't break 70 degrees. Climate change in our area is way more like climate yo-yo.
Posted by: Seanna Lea on August 12, 2011 02:52 AMYou can, of course, resow lettuce seeds and continue to harvest salad greens. Since they're a cool weather crop, they can even stand the occasional light frost.
Posted by: Mel on August 12, 2011 06:19 AMWhat Mel said about salad greens.
We must have stolen the heat from you. I had to run my a/c for two weeks in a row and I can't remember the last time it was so hot!
Posted by: Kristen on August 12, 2011 09:47 AMI feel ya. I was running the heat in June, which is unheard of in these parts. I know most of the country is baking this summer but it's been quite nice here in NorCal this year.
Oh, and I have a love/hate thing with the round cropping tool. :?
xo
Posted by: Cookie on August 12, 2011 02:16 PM