sunday night, for whatever reason, i didn't sleep very well, and was up awake in the middle of the night for four hours, so i slept in late until about 10. i don't usually have any teaching on mondays, so i decided to go pick raspberries, as the ones in our neighbors' yard (that overhang the fence) are ripe. it took me awhile to get organized & up and ready, so i don't think i reached the orchard until high noon. it was really hot out that day, and it took me two hours to fill the two buckets i had. i think it's near the beginning of the season, and it took a bit of searching to find properly ripe berries. anyway, i picked around 12 pounds, & spent the rest of the day washing & freezing them. i was so so sore the next day, so i think it'll be a while before i pick again. i still need to get blueberries, and it would be nice to have lots of peaches or nectarines...
i LOVE summer fruit!
the rest of the week has been pretty uneventful. i've just been busy with teaching, and trying to get the rest of the house set up for the nursery. i tried out the chocolate chip cookie recipe last night, the one that was recently published in the new york times. the cookies turned out really well, but they're huge! 3.5 ounces of cookie dough per cookie - looked like a lacrosse sized ball of dough, but the texture is great. the key is letting the dough sit for at least 24 hours in the refrigerator before cooking, along with sprinkling each cookie with sea salt before baking.
today i have no students, and it will be a pampering day...
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