I like comparisons, especially when I’m bored. I am also taking a math class for the first time since 1992, so I’m going to use some math speak. Just because.
1.) Raw vegetables > cooked vegetables
I generally find this to be true, but it’s true X100 in the warmer weather. I think it has something to do with my overall preference for crunchy over slimy. The only major exception I can think of to this rule is onions. Cooked onions = delicious and sweet, while raw onions = “there is a time and a place and it most certainly is not all the time and everywhere”.
2.) Interesting lemonade > regular lemonade
Some recommendations are the blueberry lemonade from the Oxford Spa, the orange blossom lemonade from Sofra, the cerbat at the Baraka Cafe, and the ginger lemonade from Cafe Zing. Also, limeade > interesting lemonade any day.
3.) My extended family members under the age of five > your extended family members under the age of five
I am sorry, but it’s just true. They have awesome names and they call me “Fifi”. Love.
4.) Farmers Markets > supermarkets
I would also like to suggest the documentary “A Crude Awakening” to anyone wanting to know a little more about the oil crisis. Buy local please, it’s the little things that count.
5.) Cherries > strawberries
I used to work with some crazy people who didn’t like fresh cherries. I love you guys, but you are crazy. Also, nectarines > peaches but only because I don’t like the fuzz.
5 seems like a good place to stop.
blueberry lemonade chillin' on my back porch
3 Comments
1) totally with you, though some veggies really need to be cooked (okra, eggplant, and true yams come to mind)
2) please describe cerbat! also, have you tried rosewater lemonade? yum. which makes me think, why haven’t i ever made lavender blueberry lemonade? want. also, last summer i made watermelon lemonade (http://smittenkitchen.com/2009/07/watermelon-lemonade/) but tweaked the recipe by using homemade strawberry-rhubarb simple syrup (just a hint of strawberry). it was, i feel comfortable saying, GENIUS.
3) i might start calling you fifi, though in my mind you are fifolina or fife. and, you haven’t met my cousin’s little ones. oh man.
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4) agreed, 10 times over. and i haven’t seen that, thanks.
5) yes on cherries > strawberries. and i used to feel the same about nectarines over peaches, but when i take the time to peel a peach (non-grocery store varieties are way easier to peel), it’s so, so worth it. while on the subject, i procured some of the best peaches and nectarines of my life at the ferry building market in san francisco. so many varities available! *shudder*
Baraka’s cerbat = lemonade with rose petals and North African spice, so good. Strong and sweet though, I tend to like mine watered down a little bit. And nobody’s called me fifeolina in forever! That’s totally a Rena and Jenny and Kris” nickname for me, love love love.
we should all overlap coordinates sometime soon.