Kitchen Triplets

from Townsend, TN - Vacation - Summer 2007



* I brought

1. a basil plant,
   
2. a grater,
   
3. a pepper mill.

* I wished for

1. cayenne pepper,
   
2. Gruyère,
   
3. more than two working electric burners.

* I bought

1. parchment paper,
   
2. a reamer,
   
3. a fine-mesh strainer.

* I discovered

1. an electric can opener,
   
2. a filthy cast-iron skillet (which I bleached and re-seasoned),
   
3. a soufflé dish.
   

* I prepared tons of

1. okra (fried mostly but also stewed with tomatoes and orange peppers),
   
2. gougères (sans Gruyère),
   
3. (Kenneth having requested them because Lurline always served him a surfeit) Tollhouse chocolate-chip cookies.

We had okra almost every night. When someone asks me where I'd like to establish my career, I plan to tell them, "Any place where local okra is plentiful and reasonably priced."*

*Willy St. Co-op currently has too-big okra for $6/lb. No dice. I can find it at the Saturday Farmers Market, but I have to go very early...