If you put kale in your smoothies, you'd better believe you can add tender greens, too. In fact, greens like mesclun and soft lettuces are sweeter than kale, and combine well with fruits and herbs. We'd steer clear of arugula, though—it can be assertively peppery.That linked to "The Greenest Smoothie," which is one of those too-many-ingredients recipes. And there's one ingredient — frozen banana — that I think takes over a week of prep time if you haven't already ripened bananas and squirreled them away in the freezer. But I do come away with the idea that ginger and frozen pineapple could go in there. Matcha? Hmm. Why? I suspect Bon Appetit of needing to be special, not normal, and I just want normal.
I think I'm going to blend all that mesclun with some fresh orange juice, because orange juice is what I happen to have in the house. Isn't that the point of smoothies — using up your leftovers? Thought of like that, the blender seems like a garbage disposal. Noisy manufacturers of sludge.
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Send Meade to sell them at the farmer's market and check his computer for Ashley Madison while he is there. :)
What Would Bourdain Do?
Random mescaline drops in people's unlocked cars. You might be able to catch 'em as they don't usually start locking their car doors until the squash start ripening.
Tank has a protein shake almost every day. Protein powder, some combo of banana (not frozen) and frozen strawberries, peaches, mango and/or cherries, 2% milk, water, Splenda. If using fresh fruit, substitute ice cubes for water.
No green stuff. Green stuff makes the whole thing look like green baby shit - not inviting.
Kale was not a good idea.
I like floating flowers in a wide top bowl with leaves around. Maybe you could use mesclun instead of leaves or small ferns. You could have a garlic mustard flower. And some tomato flowers. Later on wild carrots. After all they have cauliflower as decoration in pots on the mall in DC.
People are using the kale plants as landscaping decoration. They're fairly hardy. A couple of years ago I saw some that had survived early frosts and snows and were still "blooming" at Christmans.
We go through a lot of bananas, so we keep a lot of bananas in the house. But given how quickly they turn on you, at least once a week one goes in the freezer. There are so many uses for over-ripe bananas--banana oatmeal, smoothies, banana bread--that sometimes we do it on purpose. It's important to have a bag of bananas in the freezer at all times.
"We go through a lot of bananas, so we keep a lot of bananas in the house. But given how quickly they turn on you, at least once a week one goes in the freezer. There are so many uses for over-ripe bananas..."
I won't eat them at all until they are very ripe, so they have to sit on the counter for a week before they're any use for me. I can always salvage them by freezing them, but I just don't normally pick them up in the store because it's such a long time line.
"People are using the kale plants as landscaping decoration...."
Meade has done that (in other years). This year he's got a presentation of mesclun/basil that we call "sushi." I'll get a picture of it so you can see why the name is right.
The squirrel is showing more simple appreciation for life than Anthony Bourdain just did.
-LWL
The squirrel doesn't need to travel the world, compulsively looking for new tastes to satiate the hole in the self of wanting more.
Respect the squirrel.
-LWL
Foe the squirrel survival is enough.
The kindness of a banana is magic.
Appreciate magic; don't expect it.
Don't become addicted to it.
Failed junkie.
-LWL
The squirrels in DC are very tame. You could try it there.
Once you get into the frozen banana idea you always have frozen bananas. Buy a bunch of bananas. Before you finish them the last two are overripe. Peel and freeze those. Buy the next bunch of bananas.
Good detail, Henry. Peel first, then freeze. Otherwise they're useless.
Frozen bananas need to be dipped in chocolate.
Our freezer is a mess of things squirreled away. Frozen bananas. Frozen ginger. Frozen chicken bones, for making chicken broth. Frozen ends of onions, leeks, celery tops, and stems of fresh herbs, for making vegetable broth. Tubes of freezer cookies, made for us by the great grammy.
That squirrel is in Vienna.
Squirrels don't have the brainpower to think of committing suicide. They don't even have the wits to think of not bothering to get food and just to waste away because what is the point of all this skittering around collecting nuts? They don't even think of scampering to another spot on the globe to see if the nuts taste different somewhere out there. And they don't think of throwing themselves off a high limb and ending it all. I have seen from my window squirrels falling from high in a tree. They hit the ground and immediately get up and run. Run run run. Get get get. It never stops until death snatches them. They don't go hurling themselves into the arms of death. It's just not a squirrel concept. I know. I read their mind from my vantage point here at the computer in front of the big window looking out on the trees.
"Once you get into the frozen banana idea you always have frozen bananas. Buy a bunch of bananas. Before you finish them the last two are overripe. Peel and freeze those. Buy the next bunch of bananas."
I've done that but sometimes I get tired of being a cog in an endless assembly line of banana processing. I'm all Um… (pause) It’s a lot to… (pause) A lot to process. I mean… (pause) Uh… (long pause) I — I can’t even… (pause) I… (long pause) I… (long pause) I mean, I — I… (pause) I — I — I can’t… (chuckles) I can’t… I can’t… I can’t put it into words. I — I — I don’t know what the words are.
Hitler discovers he has no frozen bananas.
"It never stops until death snatches them. They don't go hurling themselves into the arms of death. It's just not a squirrel concept."
Much of the modern man of the First World takes survival as a given. As the default, from which to expect more and more and more.
It is not a given, it is a Gift.
Run run run. Get get get.
We get the ability to breathe breathe breathe.
Thousands of years of our forebearers struggling and surviving culminated in us being able to live without the constant worry of basic survival. Without the constant presence of hunger.
The modern man's suicide is the individual saying that civilization ends with me.
Failed junkie.
-LWL
Isn't failed junkie on George Carlin's list of oxymorons?
Didn't Voltaire write about this very thing? When one has mesclun growing in one's own back yard, where is the need to travel? Travel leads to despair which leads to suicide. /sarc.
You know, I was scrolling down the page, and the headline raced by, and I misread 'mesclun' as 'racism' LOL.
Anyway: rotten bananas: Banana Bread. No need to put it in a blender though!
So now I'm at this conference, trying not to laugh at the idea of a garden with an overflowing supply of racism.
It's my Professor Suing Nyu moment.
Look up grilled salads. You might be able to grill it. It might work well in a grilled peach salad.
Giant, burgundy asparagus popped up at our new house this spring. We love asparagus so that was great. After a month or two of asparagal abundance, however, we were done with asparagus and let the plants become bushes, collecting energy for next year.
But given how quickly they turn on you
Perfidious fruit.
I've found that mixing some fruit juices cancels out their flavors.
It's a good thing squirrels can't read. They'd be totally bummed out by reading your appraisal of their life. It should be noted that you have no idea of the exhilarating fun of jumping from one branch to the other. They routinely perform acrobatic feats that no Olympic gymnast would ever attempt. It's a short life, but it has its compensations.
I'm trying to find a place for a fig tree, but I may have to find a small one to avoid blocking my west windows. The only other place with decent sun is the small front lawn.
I planted a Formosa azalea last year, my first new plant in over 20 years, but I put it in the wrong spot--too much winter sun and not enough wind protection. They're beautiful but marginally hardy here. What was I thinking?
I may have to hire Meade.
I predict the next article Ann links to will be about how one woman's Salad Fatigue led to drug abuse, promiscuity, and a stint in a mental institution.
Because Salad Fatigue is Real.
ALP, thank you for increasing awareness of Salad Fatigue. For most women it is an affliction kept hidden, festering, only to explode into an eventual arugula-filled rage. Some have dealt with it as I have, by eschewing lettuce--and arugula--in favor of cucumbers and cherry tomatoes.
Ralph L -- Where do you live? I bury my fig trees in leaves each Winter and wait each Spring for them to grow back from the roots. I have planted Celeste and Brown Turkey and lose a tree every few years. That's in mid-state Massachusetts.
Fig trees like sun and hate mistrals.
Henry, you must not be afraid of the finite nature of life if you're growing figs in New England. I'm in the NC piedmont. The one my mother planted 40 years ago outside DC died to the ground once or twice when young, but now it's over two stories tall, too tall to reach the figs--and owned by others.
Which of your varieties has the sweetest fruit?
Sadly, only the Celeste has born fruit. It was delicious, but I don't even get fruit every year.
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