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

[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.