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Sunday, January 28, 2007

Eat your vegetables

Especially you, Fitzie! After reading a fantastic article on the bad seeds, Shopgirlove just had to throw away her last dime at her local Whole Paycheck. (Just kidding, love you, hire me.) Five hours later...soup for 100! And such a soup. A thing of beauty. Truly. Winter needs soup, the short days, the cold, the overarching weariness of it all. Greens and beans. Tubers and tomatoes. Andouille sausage for depth. Chicken stock, olive oil, and butter for the tongue. Marjoram to remind you that spring is just around the corner. Leeks, onions, and garlic because I have no plans tonight.
That and a giant martini.
Shopgirlove is looking forward to Jane Eyre part two. Most girls I know talk about the Cinderella complex. But most girls I know seem to suffer from an eyrean complex: we shall work hard and do our duty, a man in a position of power will notice how hard we work and how well we do our duties and we shall be rewarded. More and more, I identify with the woman in the tower.
By the way, these people deserve a Congressional Medal of Honor. And a MacArthur genius grant. Seriously.

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