Hiatus

So, it turns out that moving cross-country to a sublet w/ a pathetic batterie de cuisine slows down my already pretty glacial blogging pace. Nevertheless, last night I prevailed over the tiny cutting board and tinier pot for the following:

- De-case and break up and fry 3 so-called Hot Italian sausages in a bit of butter. (Not spicy at all.)
- Remove sausage pieces, dump in 5 halved/smashed garlic cloves and 1 coarsely chopped white onion.
- Stir occasionally and allow to get golden while chopping up 6 or so golf ball-sized red-skinned potatoes and the same volume tomatoes. Add tomatoes to pot, let get a bit juicy, add potatoes and some water.
- When potatoes are beginning to soften, add a bage of pre-chopped kale from Trader Joe's. If you are (for example) doing all this in a 2-quart pot, you will have to add a handful, let it start to wilt, stir it under, and then add the next handful.
- Cover and let cook a bit longer while you sit on the couch and eat potato chips and drink red wine.
- Put some - stew? ragout? - in a bowl, top w/ some sausage pieces and chiffonaded basil, salt and pepper with abandon, eat. Then do your dishes with nothing that can be said to resemble either a real sponge or an adequate quantity of dishsoap and, for approximately the millionth time, remind yourself to put those things on the shopping list.

(Of course, thrilled to be in CA, sublet has a couple drawbacks but overall is an excellent landing pad/launch point, work is all very new and fairly challenging but worth it.)