キャミー・タング著「戌年」連載小説 プロのドッグトレーナーであるマリ・ムトウは、厄年を迎えている。 犬小屋と訓練所の改築をしながら、いつも不服そうにしている家族と同居することになった。母と姉に言わせれば、犬の毛とよだれかけにまみれる仕事は、家族にとって恥ずべきものだという。彼女は元カレを説得し、数ヶ月間犬を預かってもらうことにした。しかし、彼の兄は、数週間前に彼女が誤って車に追突した、怒り狂ったセキュリティ専門家であることが判明する。 アシュウィン・ケイトウは十分な問題を抱えている。叔母が玄関先に現れ、同居を希望している。彼は彼女にすべてを借りているので、断ることができません。母親が家を出て行った後、ネルおばさんはアシュウィンと弟を引き取り、愛のあるキリスト教の家庭で育てた。しかも、弟のダスティもアパートを追い出され、居場所を求めている。しかし、彼は犬を飼っている。そして、その犬の飼い主は誰だと思いますか? しかし、旧友でオアフ島のノースショアでデイスパを経営する私立探偵のエディサ・ゲレロから依頼を受ける。マリの施設で奇妙な破壊行為があり、3年前に失踪したエディサの妹の財布を発見する。エディサはマリが危険な目に遭っているのではと心配する。警備の専門家であるアシュウィンがすでにマリを知っていることを知ったエディサは、忙しい若い女性を密かに監視することを彼に依頼する。 アシュウィンは、活発でのんびりとしたドッグトレーナーに不本意ながら惹かれていく。彼女は、幸せそうな母親を思い出させる。その母親の裏切りによって、彼は人と距離を置くようになったのだ。マリは、アシュウィンの冷たい外見を見抜き、彼が家族に忠実な男であることを認める。彼は、彼女のキャリア選択を批判するだけの母親や姉とは違う。 マリのバラバラな家庭とアシュウィンのバラバラな家庭の中で、過去を隠そうとする人たちから、彼らの周りに危険が迫ってくるようになる。彼らは、影で動く秘密に光を当てることができるのか? 過去に発表されたパートへのリンクはこちら。 *** 第8章 - 恐ろしくも真っ白な不動産書類 『みんな仲良くできないのかな?』 マリは無用に力を込めて箱に本を投げ入れた。最近、なぜ彼女は人生の中で全員と言い争いをしているのだろう?もしかすると、これは本当に悪いアイデア
Captain's Log, Stardate 01.12.2009
Just read this great article on the New York Times online:
The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating
Go ahead and read it, it’s not long. I’ll wait here until you come back.
I have to say, I’m very heartened by some of the foods on the list. I already eat some of them, although some I don’t like.
For instance, I really don’t care for beets. I mean, really. They’re up there with turnips for me. Just not tasty.
Cabbage and Swiss chard, on the other hand, I eat a lot thanks to the organic co-op we belong to. Our weekly veggie baskets usually have one or the other or both almost the entire year.
Cabbage I love to chop thinly and stir into soups. It adds body to the soup and the cooking gets rid of the more harsh odor of the raw deal.
As a kid, we had them mixed with mayo and a little soy sauce in an Asian-style slaw, but I didn’t care for it too much. (I know it sounds weird, but I grew up with stuff like that.)
Swiss chard is great for those sauté pasta sauces. I chop and stir fry the entire bundle of stalks with garlic and some type of meat like chicken or shrimp and then add maybe marsala wine and a little tomato paste, or red wine, or balsamic vinegar, or just parmesan cheese. Then I toss the pasta with the sauce and I have a low-fat, veggie-rich pasta.
This year, I also discovered I like fresh pumpkin when I started cooking with it versus just eating it in desserts. I made pumpkin soup with Gruyere cheese (Williams-Sonoma cookbook) and that was fantastic, besides being rich in fiber. The key to a good pumpkin soup was in using homemade chicken stock, which was super easy/fast with chicken bones and a pressure cooker I bought on Amazon.com.
Plus pumpkin is so cheap and roasting is way easy, and I just froze the roasted flesh until I wanted to make soup again or maybe use it in a dessert.
Blueberries I like, but they’re a bit expensive, so I don’t eat them much.
How about you? What did you think of the article?
Just read this great article on the New York Times online:
The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating
Go ahead and read it, it’s not long. I’ll wait here until you come back.
I have to say, I’m very heartened by some of the foods on the list. I already eat some of them, although some I don’t like.
For instance, I really don’t care for beets. I mean, really. They’re up there with turnips for me. Just not tasty.
Cabbage and Swiss chard, on the other hand, I eat a lot thanks to the organic co-op we belong to. Our weekly veggie baskets usually have one or the other or both almost the entire year.
Cabbage I love to chop thinly and stir into soups. It adds body to the soup and the cooking gets rid of the more harsh odor of the raw deal.
As a kid, we had them mixed with mayo and a little soy sauce in an Asian-style slaw, but I didn’t care for it too much. (I know it sounds weird, but I grew up with stuff like that.)
Swiss chard is great for those sauté pasta sauces. I chop and stir fry the entire bundle of stalks with garlic and some type of meat like chicken or shrimp and then add maybe marsala wine and a little tomato paste, or red wine, or balsamic vinegar, or just parmesan cheese. Then I toss the pasta with the sauce and I have a low-fat, veggie-rich pasta.
This year, I also discovered I like fresh pumpkin when I started cooking with it versus just eating it in desserts. I made pumpkin soup with Gruyere cheese (Williams-Sonoma cookbook) and that was fantastic, besides being rich in fiber. The key to a good pumpkin soup was in using homemade chicken stock, which was super easy/fast with chicken bones and a pressure cooker I bought on Amazon.com.
Plus pumpkin is so cheap and roasting is way easy, and I just froze the roasted flesh until I wanted to make soup again or maybe use it in a dessert.
Blueberries I like, but they’re a bit expensive, so I don’t eat them much.
How about you? What did you think of the article?
Comments
So, where do the two HUGE pieces of chocolate birthday cake fit in?? YIKES
Problem for me is some of the foods suggested I can't eat due to my thyroid. Cabbage and swiss chard, supposedly reduce thyroid production and now that I'm only down to half of one, can't make it work harder than it already is. Tho I'm very fond of American cole slaw!
I'll pass on the beets and sardines, blech!
And sardines--eee. No thank you.
But all the rest, I like and probably eat when I can. It's hard to find pumpkin seeds here at certain times of the year. I love cabbage in many forms. Love summer slaw, in soups, as a wrap for meatballs, etc. Oh, yeah!
I buy blueberries frozen and throw them into cereal, salads or yogurt.
Anyway, more food. Wow.
Is there a club we can join on Facebook called Women Against Beets?
Winnie, I totally didn't know that about cabbage and chard!
Crystal, my beet-hating fellow goddess, that's why we're friends, babe!
Camy
My diverticulitis keeps me away from pumpkin seeds.
I love cabbage but it makes me toot if I eat too much. Napa is great in when wilted at the last minutes in stir fries.
Pomegranites - they are a fave and I try to get the juice once a month - it's pricey and never seems to be on sale. I found a pomegranite cereal that is filled with fiber and it is not bad.
Sardines - the canned ones are okay but when i really crave them I get them fresh at the asian market and grill them.
Camy
For butternut squash, I like to roast it with a little butter and brown sugar.
Camy