a reminder:

Monday at my place -- a harvest feast!

Join us to celebrate Rosh Hashana, Mabon (the Autumnal Equinox), and New England at Harvest-time.

Monday, October 3, 2005
Address: Lasell Avenue, Northampton
Time: 4:00 p.m. until late – come whenever, stay ‘til whenever

Apples & new autumn Honey (from the apiary down the street)
Challah with raisins & without
"Really Good Soup" * (Veg Soup w/Matzo Balls)
Seven-Vegetable Couscous
Rice Noodles with Thai Veg. & Sesame
Carrot and Sweet Potato Tzimmes
Spicy Egyptian Eggplant
Stuffed Artichokes
Keftikes de Prassa – Leek Fritters
Carrot Curry (a traditional Indian Rosh Hashana dish)
Great-Grandma’s Honey Cake**

Honey Porter & Hefeweizen for abundance
Lots of wine for simcha! Sadly, no mead.

All recipes are vegan (except, for the truly insane, those with “honey” in the title)

Drop-in guests are welcome. Bring someone on short notice! Bring two!
We will have enough food to feed several small armies.

* Per Kristen the Housemate
**It's not my great-grandma's, though I'm sure she made it.

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The beginnings of the vegetable soup:



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Mycorrhizae

When you dig up a tree,
keep some soil around the roots,
webby strands
wrap the taproot, the calm anchor, reach
horizontal through duff and toad dung,
damp mould. Things move so
discreetly sometimes,
I didn't even notice.
A tiger's ear flares in shade,
was that the water molecule's
elemental split? The sleight of hand
described on page twenty? No, not exactly,
you prop a shingle barrier up
to shelter a wind-torn cabbage sprout.
Strawberries edge the bed, an upside down
pot keeps rain from the post hole,
another adage proved: plant
at the new moon,
a stitch in time saves nine,
if you must leave, don't
go bare, take some dirt with you.

-- Talvikki Ansel