Sunday April 21st
Cecile sent an email earlier in the week inviting campus residents to a cookout today, on the menu was kuru fasulye, literally dry beans. I walked up the hill just before noon with uncooked rice and a pot for assembly at Alex and Lisa's house. While Lisa got the fire started outside, I cooked the rice and some English toffee inside. When they were ready, I went out and helped Cengis cut up the onions, tomatoes, red and skinny green peppers. Meanwhile the beans were cooking in a little bit of water in a giant copper pot on the fire.
Cutting up the vegetables for the beans. |
Alex fanning the flames under the beans while they cooked in a giant copper pot. |
Alex and Fernando stir in preparation to add the green, skinny (hot) peppers. |
Lisa adds the beans back in |
Charlie was added after the beans came to a good boil. He adds flavor and is a solution to the campus cat problems. |
Macbeth was quoted several times. Especially relevant was the "nose of Turk" line. |
Act IV, Scene 1 from Macbeth (1606)
by William Shakespeare
All: Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
WITCH 3: Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf;
Witches' mummy, maw and gulf
of the ravin'd salt-sea shark;
Root of hemlock digg'd in the dark;
Liver of blaspheming Jew;
Gall of goat and slips of yew
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse;
Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips;
All: Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
WITCH 3: Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf;
Witches' mummy, maw and gulf
of the ravin'd salt-sea shark;
Root of hemlock digg'd in the dark;
Liver of blaspheming Jew;
Gall of goat and slips of yew
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse;
Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips;
It is spring and the trees are blooming children. They are so ripe they fall from the branches. |
Children add sugar and spice, but adding them also provides a solution to the campus children problem. |
This recipe called for just two children, but the recipe is easily scaled up. |
The beans stewed for an hour or so and served over rice they were magnificent! |
The weather even turned out nice enough to eat outside. |
Cengis masterminded this event but his children were too young for stewing, maybe next year. |
Thanks Sue for making the fire place! |