swimming
We just walked 6 blocks, swam in the ocean, and walked home again! How amazing is that?? It's easy to forget that there's an ocean there, but occasionally I can smell it, and today, with it 90 and humid, it sounded like a great idea. Delightful! It was great how the water temperature was in layers, and you could float out on top of the water (hooray for extra buoyancy!) where it was warm, then stretch down and find it icy cold at about knee level.
It was interesting to realize that the common metric that cooking-lessons use when talking about how to brine meat to make it taste delicious, is "the brine should be flavorful, and about as salty as the ocean" - and in reality, it was only today that I got a good picture of how salty the ocean really is. Looks like I'll be using more salt next time we do a brine.
All that, and it's about a 5 minute walk from our door.
It was interesting to realize that the common metric that cooking-lessons use when talking about how to brine meat to make it taste delicious, is "the brine should be flavorful, and about as salty as the ocean" - and in reality, it was only today that I got a good picture of how salty the ocean really is. Looks like I'll be using more salt next time we do a brine.
All that, and it's about a 5 minute walk from our door.