Much gratitude for the free food from Bounty and Soul each week when a truck comes right to the parking lot at the apartment complex. Most of it is past it's prime, but perfectly good still, and organic a lot of the time.
While I'm celebrating food, this was a few weeks ago at the Veranda Restaurant with a cup of "Charleston She Crab" soup and a half a roast beef sandwich. They make fabulous soups. As you can see, I wouldn't stop to take a photo till I'd eaten half of it.
The toaster oven cooked a pound of salmon in a foil pillow, then I added a sauce and panko on top for the final browning...and had 5 dinners from it.
And just to go back in time a bit, to a picnic lunch...French style.
And related to food, how about making some beautiful pottery?
Julian_and_Maria_Martinez_decorating_potter,_c.1912
OK, I did tend to go off on a tangent...
Sharing with Sepia Saturday -
But I can't find a thing that looks like the prompt that Alan came up with this week. One guy helping by holding tools, while the other works on a motorcycle. Not in my folders, nope, nothing close!
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...often I've seen Maria Martinez's pottery on the Antique Roadshow.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that, since it is kind of rare. Of course other family members also made it.
DeleteIt’s kinda wonderful that a truck comes by with free food.
ReplyDeleteOur Asheville area Manna Food Bank distributes to various sites, including the Bounty and Soul places...they provide boxes of food at at least 3 drive through places, as well as this truck which goes all week, several site drop-offs a day. Great re-distribution of food that would otherwise go to waste. There are also catering businesses and restaurants which donate to another organization which makes up free meals and takes them to various low income places to distribute. I'm so grateful to be able to receive a weeks worth of groceries in this way.
DeleteThat Maria pottery is wonderful. I never knew how she achieved that black on black, thanks.
ReplyDeleteIt is extraordinary isn't it! Hours and hours of smoothing the surface to a mirror shine.
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ReplyDeleteThe bread looks good, it is nice to have the food items delivered to your building.
The pottery is pretty! Take care, enjoy your day and happy weekend.
Thanks Eileen. This week I don't seem to have any critters to offer your meme on Saturday. So sorry, so I'll just be lurking and reading other's posts.
DeleteGrandson August did a pottery piece in his week at art camp and he showed us how smooth it was and said he'd used a spoon. And now I have a sort of explanation!
ReplyDeleteIt was very, very smooth and shiny.
These pots were pit fired, by Maria Martinez, (and my attempt also) so the smoothing of the surface was the only way to get it shiny, no glaze!
DeleteMaybe you did go off on a tangent, but it is a lovely tangent. The pottery is beautiful, & the food looks delish'. The picture of the salmon in the toaster/oven is interesting but you wouldn't catch salmon in my new toaster/oven. Unfortunately, my taste buds do not relish salmon. I know it's super good for you & so many people think salmon is a special treat. But I just don't like it. Oh well. But I did just get a new toaster/oven. It's different than most, having an actual pop-up toaster on top of the oven part which makes perfect evenly toasted toast. And it has a long wide slot for either two normal sized pieces of bread side-by-side, or a long piece of bread such as sourdough which I love, or bagels & such. I'm delighted with it. But salmon will never grace the oven. :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a cool sounding toaster oven. I love mine. And I love salmon. I tried different glazes, and maple pecan is probably my favorite! But that's why there's chocolate and strawberry ice cream, isn't it? I don't like strawberry!
Deletemaria's black pottery is so remarkable! I love it, I had a few pieces but sold them when my "stuff" was getting too stuffy! sorry for that. Can't afford it now. Your bread looks GREAT!
ReplyDeleteOh my, the stuff that has gone through our hands in our lifetime! I need to make more bread. Perhaps this Sunday...the only day I haven't got lots of things scheduled, yet!
DeleteMaria Martinez's work is inspiring.
ReplyDeleteAs are the words on the platter...
"live by the sun, feel by the moon".
They are good ways to live, both the simple beautiful pottery, and dealing with our planet in the light of our two main sources, but there are still stars!
DeleteWhat a wonderful service to have to help people enjoy healthy food and deliver it to their neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteThere are a few paid people working with Bounty and Soul, but most are volunteers. They finally got the truck with the side that opens last year. Before that, they would carry crates of things to tables we put out. At other sites they just hand out boxes of food already prepared and have cars drive through.
DeleteThat bread looks terrific! And your free veggies--what a delight!
ReplyDeleteThanks, I need to make more bread soon. The veggies are always eaten by the end of the week, and last Monday I missed the truck because I went out to lunch. I finally went to a grocery store yesterday!
DeleteHow wonderful to have the food bank come to you! That she-crab soup looks delicious. Of course you wanted to eat it when it was hot!
ReplyDeleteAs Aunt Miriam's rules say, you don't have to match on Sepia Saturday! Back in December I spent a day at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. They had special exhibits on craftwork from Japan, China, and India that was filled with art/craft from ancient times. For many pieces I was astounded at how these artist created such beautiful things without the aid of modern tools or materials. I suspect it was the same process then as now of learning by doing and following a teacher's example.
ReplyDeleteI do love museums as a way to share the art of many cultures. It only disturbs me when I see artifacts that were stollen from sites that were being explored by western Europeans. A lot of effort is being made these days to repatriate the art to the people where it was originally made, especially for Native Americans.
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