Pumpkin

Pumpkin haunts our woods with the stealth of a panther, possibly learned from the native species, and with the curiosity of a...

She is the matron of our property, watching over the homesteads and catching mice and cockroaches before they crawl below cracks and in between wood panels to play peek-a-boo in the bathroom at 3am while our minds are groggy with twilight snoozing. This calico dashes in on occasion, dodging our legs while we scramble to secure the bird. Other times, Pumpkin just naps all day on the porch on a piece of broken and discarded furniture, beside the pothos that lives outside half the time, with her face gazing ever so daintily out to the east side of the cabin.

Cabin Cooking

This entry was written out, with lengthy lists of which ingredients I used at which intervals and in which chili, but my old computer died and in its wake comes a brand new, aerodynamic, rubber soled, streamlined macbook beside which I hawk the internet from the neighboring bagel shop.

September brought with it lovely weather, at least lovelier than usual, and we have been sleeping with the air unit off, with the windows wide open, with a strong chance that whenever we open the porch door, one of the many wolf spiders cohabitating among the nooks of screen and two-by-fours will crawl in for some homemade cooking.

Each chili is basically luck of the pot, or whatever produce seems to need cooking the most, in one I used turmeric and in another I used chili powder. Remember to put things like carrots and onions in way before pasta and leaf greens. Also I used swiss chard greens and stalks which added a lot of flavor to the broth.