awesome day!

[2eclipse]

i've been doing really well this week.
not exactly sure why, but i'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth.

yesterday i preserved limes (and 1 lemon)
i sliced them into sixths ALMOST all the way through, packed them with salt and stuck them in a boiled container with salt and lemon&lime juice.
they will sit for 2 weeks before they are ready. they should keep for a year.
if you will remember, amy got in trouble for having pickled limes in school in little women.
i am very interested to see if they are truly fantastic. i love sour things, so i expect they will be good.
ross and i successfully resolved conflict re: what kind of humidifier we will get with no one's ego bruised and made margharitas and had chipotle and re-watched batman begins. i am looking forward to the new one.

ross's surgery is tomorrow. not sure what time yet. i am having an emotional conflict about whether i am more worried about him, or more happy to have a day off...but it isn't bothering me too much. just enough for me to pay attention.

Comments

[ashoe.livejournal.com]

Nerd moment!

I read this: "if you will remember, amy got in trouble for having pickled limes in school in little women."

and immediately thought, wait, wasn't it regular limes? Hmm..I should check.

Yay little women. :)

Yay for you for preserving limes & lemons. I read a thing recently that said there's a lemon shortage going on because of crop issues.

I am thinking the good thoughts for the upcoming Anderson surgeries!

[wanderingbastet.livejournal.com]

Hah! I had exactly the same thought! I remember the bit about the lime, but don't recall that it was a pickled lime... And now I'm intensely curious both whether it was indeed a pickled lime, and how such a thing might taste. I've only ever tasted pickled, well, pickles, so of course now I'm trying to figure out how to combine the taste of a pickle with that of a lime (which of course isn't how pickling works, which I know intellectually)...

[ashoe.livejournal.com]

*hi fives*

[wanderingbastet.livejournal.com]

Yay girly literature geek solidarity! :D

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

truly.
and yeah for pickled limes!

[wanderingbastet.livejournal.com]

It *is* in fact pickled limes in the book! A google search revealed the chapter online (yay public domain books), and confirmed. Gotta love the internet - always ready with an answer long before I would've had time to go home and check my copy of the book. :-D

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

yup, although i think she only specifically refers to them as pickled once or twice. the rest of the time she just calls them limes.

[wanderingbastet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the first mention is of pickled, and there's another several paragraphs later, but otherwise it's just "limes." So ashoe and I can probably be forgiven for not remembering. ;-)

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

of course you can.
the only reason i remember is because i am a nut for sour things and immediately started drooling over the idea.

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

they are pickled, although i don't think she calls them that more than once or twice.
i didn't know about the lemon/lime shortage. i got this idea in part from the book and in part from a radio program on how to make them.
thank you for your well-wishes. i'm sure i'll be on the blog while i'm recovering if i am not too stoned....or maybe it will be more if i AM stoned...hard to say.