Breakfast, Anyone?

George gave me a little basket of apricots from his tree (sorry, Jen! eat all the fruit you can handle next week!) and we had some leftover sourdough bread from last night, so this morning we had warm apricots over french toast with creme fraiche. Here's how you make Creme Fraiche. (Again, my apologies to Karen for leaving off all of the proper accents. It is too much of a pain. My only complaint in 20 years of mac use is that they don't use ASCI codes. That and the failure to communicate with PCs until recently. Yes, that. But that was it.) Eh-hem. Anyway, here is how you make Creme Fraiche:

1/4 c buttermilk
2 c (or whatever you have) heavy cream
Put together in a container. Leave on top of refrigerator or on counter overnight. Stir. Put in fridge.
Do not pay five bucks for creme fraiche again. It is great on waffles with real maple syrup.


After breakfast, I remembered that I heard on the radio that a huge amount of garlic is being grown in CHINA for U.S. distribution. Not for California! I thought. Gilroy, California is the garlic capital of the world. Sure-e-damn-nuff, I checked the ORGANIC garlic label and it was grown in flipping CHINA. You gotta watch your labels. Just because it says organic, does not mean that it wasn't grown in the second most polluted country in the world and FLOWN all the way here. Or put on a container ship. Either way, something like that can take a bite out of one's righteousness. You've got to watch that Trader Joe's. I think a lot of people think that Trader Joe's goes out of its way to make things wholesome, organic and good for you, but what they go out of their way to do is make things cheap, fill a market niche, and above all, make money. As the saying goes, always reserve a little skepticism for anyone who's trying to sell you something, no matter how nice they are. (Ok, maybe there isn't a saying exactly like that.) There is nothing wrong with making money, just don't let them lull you into a false sense of security.