A journey off to Wal-Mart and Maine in order to shoot love arrows for our girlfriends for Valentine’s Day! It’s missing fireworks, but has more than enough swords and hunting bows.
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All Is Love by Karen O & The Kids
Emma and I decided to create a new recipe. I really like rocks so I decided the recipe needed to have some locally grown, sustainable, and organic rocks. We both like kale and quinoa so decided to stick with that family of sounds and make cups; thus kale quinoa cups are born.
6 washed rocks
1/2 cup onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, pressed
1 tbs. olive oil
1/2 cup quinoa
1 cup vegetable broth
1/3 cup cashews
dash cayenne pepper, salt, and sugar
1/2 cup carrots, chopped into 1/8 inch chunks
1/2 cup summer squash, sliced into thin slices
1 tbs. ginger, diced into very small pieces
6 kale leaves
1 tbs. rice wine vinegar
1 tbs. sesame oil
2 tbs. fresh lime juice
Pre-heat the oven to 325. Cook the onions and garlic with olive oil in a medium sauce pan then add the quinoa and vegetable broth to the mix. Quinoa should take around 20 minutes to cook fully. Roast the cashews lightly, then add the cayenne pepper, salt and sugar. Cut up the toasted nuts and add them to the quinoa. Combine the carrots, summer squash, and ginger in a small frying pan on medium heat, cook for 7 minutes and then add to the quinoa.
Now cut up the kale leaves so that they fit into a bowl shape inside a cupcake pan; this may take some experimentation. Make sure to remove as much of the stalk as possible for taste reasons. Spray the the pan with some oil before putting the leaves in. Fold the leaves in and then add the rocks on top in order to maintain shape. Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes or until the leaves start to get fragile at the tips. While the kale is baking, stir together the lime juice, rice wine, sesame oil, and dash of cayenne pepper; this is your sauce. Remove the rocks and then spoon the quinoa mixture into the kale cups. Pour the lime sauce on top of the cups to taste. Bake in the oven an additional 7-9 minutes. Remove the cups from the pan and then enjoy!
I’m still going strong on my New Year’s Resolution to make an adventure video every week! I’m 7.7% done with the project. SCORE!
Adventure 3: Not Hot Nahant
I decided to go to with Sarah to the beach during a snowstorm because she put out the offer, like any good friend would. It was gorgeous.
Adventure 4: Are you cummingtonite?
So I’m a geologist. Geologists really like puns. Ergo summa cumma laude I really like puns. The best geology pun world in the whole universe is the fact that there is a mineral cummingtonite, which leads to the obvious, “Are you cummingtonite???” jokes, ergo I go to Cummington, MA to search for this awesomely named mineral at its birthplace.
I set off searching for winter this morning because it’s been mysteriously missing lately. There was a wet rain falling on a few inches of snow that fell over night, but it didn’t look like it had long to live so I headed out West to my old haunts around Groton. I explored some of the abandoned streets and homes from my high school days, but still everything was too wet and not quite “snowy” enough so I set off North stopping in Townsend then heading into southern New Hampshire on Rte 124. Crossing state lines somehow changed everything… and there was real snow that wasn’t melting away! I somehow wandered further and accidentally ended up at the foot of Mount Monadnock so I climbed it (partially). Today I learned that it’s nice to have your own car cause you can just fill it up with all your useful adventuring stuff as long as nobody else every needs to sit in your car.
