{"id":3294,"date":"2011-05-22T17:54:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T22:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2011-05-22T18:48:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T23:48:58","slug":"tempus-fugit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/tempus-fugit\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempus fugit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"286\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gtkhn1NgCXw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And speaking of how time flies &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was the going-away party for one of my librarian friends. He&#8217;s moving back east &#8211; he&#8217;s also from Pittsburgh &#8211; to work at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longwoodgardens.org\/\">Longwood Gardens<\/a>, a botanical park in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, built with DuPont money. I&#8217;m starting to worry that it&#8217;s the beginning of an exodus; it&#8217;s looking like he&#8217;s not going to be the only one of my friends moving to that part of the world. My BFF, Rach, just got engaged to her out of town boyfriend. He&#8217;s the head of the art department <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunyulster.edu\/faculty_staff\/index.jsp\">SUNY Ulster<\/a>. They haven&#8217;t set a date, but I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re going to continue the long-distance thing till he retires, which won&#8217;t be for at least 10 years. Meanwhile, Rachael&#8217;s sister&#8217;s in Albany, her little brother&#8217;s in Pittsburgh, and mom has retired to Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>The going-away party was at this fabulous country house. I&#8217;d been there only once before, for the 50th birthday party for the guy who&#8217;s leaving&#8217;s now ex. I made a big platter of deviled eggs, arranged in a nest of sprouts and micro greens. I also made the appetizer where you spread creamy cheese on foucaccia, and top it with pesto &amp; roasted red peppers. I used bought pizza crusts, a mix of mascarpone, goat &amp; cream cheese, and the last of jar of last summer&#8217;s pesto from the freezer. The guest of honor wanted a strawberry cake. I considered two recipes &#8211; one from a soul food restaurant, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saveur.com\/article\/Recipes\/Strawberry-Cake\">published in Saveur<\/a>, with strawberry jam and extract &#8211; not a fresh strawberry in sight; and this one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicurious.com\/recipes\/food\/views\/Yogurt-Cake-with-Currant-Raspberry-Sauce-354477\">from Gourmet<\/a>, a yogurt cake with a white glaze, and a raspberry current sauce. The sauce was supposed to be cooked and sieved; I skipped the cooking, and mashed strawberries with sugar and a squish of lime juice and decorated the top of the cake with strawberry halves.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I made a brunch: Blueberry pancakes, Bacon &amp; sausage &amp; vegetarian sausage, <a href=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/asparagussalad.jpg\">that asparagus salad<\/a> I&#8217;ve been obsessing over, cooked asparagus salad with a mayonaise-y dressing, grated hard boiled egg, toasty, garlic-y breadcrumbs. This time I even had chives to sprinkle over, because I got a nice bunch in my first CSA box, along with soem of the asparagus. And rhubarb &#8211; I made rhubarb sauce, as an additional pancake topping and\/or Greek yogurt with rhubarb sauce &#8211; yum.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures? no pictures, they all got away except for the funeral home sign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And speaking of how time flies &#8230;. Yesterday was the going-away party for one of my librarian friends. He&#8217;s moving back east &#8211; he&#8217;s also from Pittsburgh &#8211; to work at Longwood Gardens, a botanical park in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, built with DuPont money. I&#8217;m starting to worry that it&#8217;s the beginning of an exodus; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,194,206],"class_list":["post-3294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brunch","tag-parties","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3306,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions\/3306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}