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Sat, Jun 21, 2008

Midsummer 2008

Posted at 8:08 pm MDT to Weather

The summer solstice was historically called Midsummer because the solstices and equinoxes used to be considered the middles of the seasons, not the beginnings of them. May Day was the old beginning of summer.

Today was a slow day at the Farmers' Market, but the weather was beautiful.

Nanette's strawberries were in, for the first time this season. Store strawberries taste like plastic by comparison, even the organic ones. I think the store ones must be picked too early so they will survive shipping.

I asked the people at the Laudisio booth if they could make me a dairy-free pizza, and they were really nice about it. They loaded it with veggies and some sausage, making sure I could have everything before they added it. The flavor was a little strange without cheese, and stuff tended to fall off the crust without cheese to glue it on, but the pizza was delicious. It's hard to beat pizza crust baked in a wood-fired brick oven.

I may be begining to recover some balance... I'm beginning to be able to watch cooking shows again.

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