Jess Liotta 🍄

Renato Guttuso (Italian, 1911–1987)
"La Vucciria", 1974.
Oil on Canvas, 300 × 300 cm.
Palazzo Steri in Palermo, Sicily, Italy.

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Caper the silver sable Silken Windhound sits politely at the end of his purple leash, in line at Portland Nursery after helping me pick out some flower seeds

Please enjoy this timeline cleanse with Caper, charming everyone with his good looks and fine behavior at Portland Nursery today

Even wilder, if things keep moving on the permanent standard time west coast pact we’d be in a different time zone *forever*

Took child to strep test (negative, sigh) which took five-ever so ran late to my own unrelated appointment at a different Kaiser facility; went to the wrong damn office, barely made it to the RIGHT office and got bumped to end of the queue; had to flake on other planned errand. Not my finest day tbh

I’m in no way suggesting they aren’t playing fucky games, BUT that does look like the rash my spouse gets from a preventative pre skin cancer treatment he’s had to do a few times. I forget the name but it’s basically a topical chemo that burns off your top skin layers before any cancer can take hold

Some nice mushrooms :)

Yellowfoot growing next to a mossy stick

A bunch of yellowfoot growing in the moss in a redwood forest

Tons and tons of yellowfoot growing around a rotting stump in Oregon

A giant late season yellowfoot mushroom in (I think) tanoak and madrone leaf litter

Dried Yellowfoot mushrooms, sometimes called winter chanterelles (Craterellus tubaeformis). A lovely little mushroom that fruits in often huge numbers in the PNW (and NorCal coast) from late fall through early spring. They dehydrate nicely especially for later use in soup stock or broth

Oh! but for the broth I pressure cooked a bunch of chicken parts and a huge pile of dried yellowfoot, which is an essentially infinitely renewable resource in Portland

IT’S OUR TIME. EVERYBODY CELEBRATE THE WEDDING THIS MOMENT CREATED www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...

Just boring ol’ shiitakes, but frankly they were the right call here given what I had available! (Fresh morels would have slapped but it’s a touch early sadly)

A bowl of soup with lots of noodles and chopped herbs and a lime wedge, and a rich deep colored broth

“Getting a cold” is currently trending here at the Mushroom Kingdom, so I fought back with this Thai style stewed chicken noodle mushroom soup. Heavy on the galangal, turmeric root, and ginger, with lots of fish sauce and optional chiles. Too soon to say if everyone is healed yet but I’m hopeful

In high school in Sonoma County, a bunch of my classmates all worked as like valet drivers and other odd jobs there. I didn’t learn about its whole deal ‘til way later, which led to some uhhhhh rapid mental adjustments from my previous assumptions

This looks great, imma try it this week!

Jim Dixon’s DIY Dish: Swedish-Style Caramelized Cabbage

(a) I’m gonna need a link to that recipe please and thank you

(b) If any of yall are in the market for another true food alchemy cabbage recipe, @pdxoliveoilguy.bsky.social‘s Swedish caramelized cabbage is a banger. It’s on constant winter rotation in our house www.wweek.com/restaurants/...

Did my therapist put you up to posting this 😒

(I have mine keyed to mega dim on or off on hitting the right side button 3 times fast)

Dimmer than the lowest dim is my favorite accessibility shortcut by a mile

EYB indexes all the ingredients, usually input by users, as well as geographic location/cuisine etc. (I’ve indexed a couple books that weren’t in there yet.) So you can search for East Asian recipes that use eggs or Mexican recipes that use tomatillos or whatever

I have used Eat Your Books for years which is a similar concept and it’s so goddamn useful. I use it several times a week, super worth it

(Miro has an actually very dashing little corner of the mouth uptick scar AND we didn’t have to take a helicopter evac so it worked out fine)

Me either (except after my c section, which Does Not Count). But between my kids we’ve had three stitches incidents, one or two dermabond incidents, and one would have been stitches if we hadn’t been on a boat in the middle of nowhere and so they got mom’s wilderness first aid™️ instead incident

Urgent care is for stitches that you don’t wanna wait 6 hours for but imo that’s about it

It’s amazing how I can’t deliberately install idk, Italian congiuntivo conjugations into my brain, but you bet your ass I still have every word to these stupid GI Joe Fensler Films committed to indelible deep storage after twenty goddamn years

PORK CHOP SANDWICHES?!

Cultured Russian sour cream, extra flavorful but regular sour cream works in a pinch too.

Chashushuli Recipe (Ostri): Spicy Georgian Mushroom Stew A mushroom chashushuli recipe that makes a delicious spicy Georigan stew that is also commonly known as ostri.

Chanterelles work great in Indian curries, like a dry curry of red pepper/paneer/chanterelles.

Finally, I've made riffs on this Georgian stew using chanterelles. This specific recipe needs more fat, eg olive oil/butter, but it's overall pretty solid. nofrillskitchen.com/chashushuli-...

Oh hi yes I have several! My all time best favorite chanterelle recipe is the chanterelles potatoes and smetana from the Kachka cookbook. NYT has it online but it rushes; the cookbook version takes 2-3 hours of simmering. It makes a big difference! A real "more than the sum of parts" gem.

Hotel lobby breakfast burrito delivery plan is going great btw. Important update: I realized that because Tucson I should swap carne asada for machaca (carne seca), this stuff is so good

I’m down to assist in this endeavor

Haha. Alas, probably not. But what they WOULD be brilliant at is the question “what’s relevant near our hotel / this thing we’re doing” for downtime/food, kid runaround spots etc. Lmk if there’s anywhere else you want some solid options besides Paddington station