Brown Butter Plum Crumble
I know there’s nothing as cliché as parents bemoaning how quickly time flies by, but goodness! We’re cycling through prime fruit seasons left and right these days. This past weekend the farmers’ market folks here bid adieu to their peach supplier, and amongst all the ‘see you next may!’ I was left scratching my head. Its not that I expected that living in Georgia would be peach season in perpetuity, I guess I just thought we’d have them a bit longer. Aside from momentary fits of separation anxiety in which I contemplate driving to South Carolina, to make desperate grabs at their still booming crop, I’m a little bit grateful to turn our attention towards other fruits. We’re distracting ourselves from the vacuum peach season has left by turning our attention to blackberries, nectarines and yes, plums.
Fattoush Salad
“I don’t ever want to take for granted that I live in a place with such great Lebanese food,” at the time it was a seemingly insignificant statement. It came from a friend during one of our regular gossipy lunches where we coached each other to be become better people. There were boys to dismiss, travels to hash out and dreams to realize. While much of the future was uncertain, it was a forgone conclusion that we wouldn’t be in that place forever, we’d grow up, we’d move on, our world was expanding. And months later we were indeed spreading out, to Columbus, DC, summer camp in Michigan. But six years later its the thought of savoring Toledo’s Lebanese food that has stuck with me wherever I go (and the friendship, thankfully).
Olive Oil Gazpacho
In the movie about my life, scenes from last weekend would be one of those montages of dueling extremes, bouncing back and forth between action and inaction, carefree laughs and near tears, basically fun, and well, misery. It would begin with a scene of me dropping D at the airport, him lugging his bags onto an airplane. It would then follow that plane as it climbed into the air and then slowly pan over to the sun- an intense and menacing looking sun at high noon.
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