Not too much to say tonight. Now that my semester is over, I began my summer French cuisine experiment. I cooked with fava beans for the first time, making a scrumptious frittata and a green bean salad. I’m trying to balance my desire to cook French with Jana’s mission to source most of our food as close to home as possible. We bought the two different varieties of beans directly from local farmers, and I included mint from Jana’s garden in the frittata. Even GameBoy praised the veggie-dominated meal. I’ve spent so much of my life trying smother the natural flavors of the earth–it was an epiphany to actually enjoy the texture of the fava beans, the richness of the manchego cheese (imported from sheep in Spain, so not local, but worth it), and the subtle aftertaste of the mint.
I scaled my commitments down last week to recover from end of the semester burn-out, but now I’m looking forward to returning to Bury the Chains and to my fiction writing. Now that I’ve switched web hosting providers, I’m antsy to podcast again. (Jana too!) I plan to record my next piece of fiction, a tale of a forbidden love between a Mormon missionary and an English teacher in Japan (with just a hint of magical realism). This story won a little contest at UCI a few years back, so at least a couple of people liked it. 
Tired now. More tomorrow!
3 responses so far ↓
1 Chris Rusch // Jun 4, 2007 at 11:29 am
I have always wanted to try my hand at writing fiction. But a couple of years ago I experienced fiction burnout. Since then the only work of fiction that I have read is the Da Vinci Code. However a couple of weeks ago I did purchase Orson Card’s first two books in his Alvin Maker series. The premise of the book seemed interesting. It seemed like Card was asking, how do I write about folk magic and Mormonism without loosing my membership. Unfortunately those books have taken a back seat to Jon Meecham’s American Gospel which is one of the most exciting things that I have read in a long time. Good luck with the fiction writing.
2 nee // Jun 4, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Hello, Clarice. Fava beans, eh? Did you serve them with a nice Chianti?
3 John // Jun 4, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Chris, I loved the first two Alvin Maker books. They’re even more fun for Mormons, because you can find so many of Card’s inspirations.
Nee, it took me three seconds to catch the reference. Then I was all rotlfl!
And just a bit grossed out.
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