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Food drop-off log, July 2011

9 July:
400 grams of homemade tagliatelle, dried in wound circular forms, piled in a large white plastic bowl

July 12:
twelve tomatoes
sixteen overripe peaches
a watermelon weighing eleven kilograms

July 14:
two bottles of chickpeas cooked in broth with tomatoes and celery stalks

July 21:
bean soup in a white porcelain tureen with a broken handle, covered with an aluminum lid, in a white plastic shopping bag

July 27:
200 grams of homemade tagliatelle, dried hanging over the back of a chair, in a reused perforated bread bag
366 grams of beef fillets from the supermarket, shrink-wrapped on a white polystyrene tray, with the instruction to eat them immediately "lest they loose their blood"

July 29:
thirteen fried zucchini blossoms, on a reused polystyrene tray, green and brown decomposed organic material visible through the perforations in its surface
tomato-based meat sauce with various unidentifiable ingredients in the white porcelain tureen with a broken handle, covered with an aluminum lid, in a plastic SISA produce bag; nine meatballs with zucchini chunks, cooked without salt, four in the sauce in the tureen, the remaining five loosely and partially wrapped in a reused sheet of aluminum foil

8 responses:

Lost in Sicily said...

One question for you: do you actually eat these donations? :) PS happy to see you are posting again!

Karen said...

Haha, yes and no! Some of it gets tossed, some of it gets eaten by N, and I eat a little of it (typically the fruit.)

J.Doe said...

How long did it take you to eat an 11 kilogram watermelon? It would take me a few days and I love watermelon.

Karen said...

We still have about 5 kg of it left. We would have finished it in a few days if it hadn't been for all the peaches. My MIL has been here and she bought peaches nearly every day. We like peaches better.

Fern Driscoll said...

Your drop-off logs crack me up. That's an awful lot of watermelon! Do you have an ice-cream maker? Watermelon ice is good...

Megan in Liguria said...

Ciao Karen - Love reading your blog and love the warm rose background color. Would you mind telling me what color it is or the RGB numbers. Would be a great color in one of our rooms. I know a very random request but just love the color!

Megan in Liguria :)

Karen said...

Megan, sorry I've taken so long to answer you. (In my defense, it's August.) The rgb code is: #cca799. (I've been thinking of painting our bedroom a similar color, though slightly browner, so I didn't think it was a random or strange request at all.)

Megan in Liguria said...

Grazie Karen! Think it would be a lovely color for a room...