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Jul. 23rd, 2005 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikHike, hike, hiketty hike.
So after finding that the open Taiji practice with another teacher from the same lineage as our very first Chen teacher had apparently been entirely taken over by the Walk for the Cure, Craig and I went over the first bit of Deception Creek trail. (Nope, not Grieder Lake. Quick vote, and we decided to go somewhere we hadn't been before.) So, after a quick stop by the Sultan Cafe, away we went.
We only went, oh, maybe two and a half miles or so up. It's not the most distinctive hike -- big trees, tumbling water, ferns, swamp lily and mushrooms and Douglas squirrels are pretty much the norm, really. But it is a nice hike. With the most extraordinary thick, green moss in the lower sections. The trees had moss, the rocks had moss, the ground has moss, even the stones sticking up out of the creek had little moss toupees. A couple of miles mostly of gentle up, and my knee was a little sore (the ankle doesn't hurt much, but it's instability does get to my knee after long enough on rough ground) and Craig was worried about mosquitos, so we headed back. (I wasn't worried about mosquitos on my own behalf. No self respecting mosquito will so much as glance in my direction if Craig's around.)
It felt a little more like a walk in the woods than a hike, really, but enough moving around that I feel nicely sleepy and relaxed, now. And I am teaching tomorrow, so if I fried my knee I'd regret it later.
Getting home, I attempted quiche. The crust needed work (generally my crusts need work, and I was in too much of a rush to properly chill the dough) but otherwise it was pretty much just what I was trying for. Which is to say it was a nice mass of carmelized onions, and sauteed peppers, and a few different kinds of squash (sauteeing these all reduced their moisture so they didn't make the quiche watery -- which was the theory, and happily it worked out in practice) with a little bit of savory custard to hold it all together. We didn't have any regular milk, and I wasn't going to use all cream, so I added buttermilk, and the tartness of the buttermilk set off the veggies beautifully.
I'm not usually a big fan of eggs, but these were fresh from the market this morning. Maybe they'll do something for my blood iron levels, which have been kind of low recently.
So after finding that the open Taiji practice with another teacher from the same lineage as our very first Chen teacher had apparently been entirely taken over by the Walk for the Cure, Craig and I went over the first bit of Deception Creek trail. (Nope, not Grieder Lake. Quick vote, and we decided to go somewhere we hadn't been before.) So, after a quick stop by the Sultan Cafe, away we went.
We only went, oh, maybe two and a half miles or so up. It's not the most distinctive hike -- big trees, tumbling water, ferns, swamp lily and mushrooms and Douglas squirrels are pretty much the norm, really. But it is a nice hike. With the most extraordinary thick, green moss in the lower sections. The trees had moss, the rocks had moss, the ground has moss, even the stones sticking up out of the creek had little moss toupees. A couple of miles mostly of gentle up, and my knee was a little sore (the ankle doesn't hurt much, but it's instability does get to my knee after long enough on rough ground) and Craig was worried about mosquitos, so we headed back. (I wasn't worried about mosquitos on my own behalf. No self respecting mosquito will so much as glance in my direction if Craig's around.)
It felt a little more like a walk in the woods than a hike, really, but enough moving around that I feel nicely sleepy and relaxed, now. And I am teaching tomorrow, so if I fried my knee I'd regret it later.
Getting home, I attempted quiche. The crust needed work (generally my crusts need work, and I was in too much of a rush to properly chill the dough) but otherwise it was pretty much just what I was trying for. Which is to say it was a nice mass of carmelized onions, and sauteed peppers, and a few different kinds of squash (sauteeing these all reduced their moisture so they didn't make the quiche watery -- which was the theory, and happily it worked out in practice) with a little bit of savory custard to hold it all together. We didn't have any regular milk, and I wasn't going to use all cream, so I added buttermilk, and the tartness of the buttermilk set off the veggies beautifully.
I'm not usually a big fan of eggs, but these were fresh from the market this morning. Maybe they'll do something for my blood iron levels, which have been kind of low recently.
