Onions, Eggplant, and Throwing Stones
I made caramelized onions. I cut a red onion into very small slices, and soaked them in sugar water overnight in the fridge. I used raw sugar. It stunk up my fridge. I then dehydrated, and they taste great. But very strong.
I also figured out that if you just marinate eggplant in water and spices overnight and then dehydrate it works just fine. All the instructions with eggplant says to 'rub the spices into the eggplant' (after it soaked in salt). That is pretty labour intensive. And the eggplant turned out too strong. So I just soak in salt, changed water, added spices, soaked (marinated) and then dehydrated. Yummy.
On a non-food related note - It is officially non-summer, I am more often than not opting to do my indoor exercise rather than go out into the cold. My favorite indoor exercise is to dance to a particular song. Its a Grateful Dead song called 'Throwing Stones'. I think its great for exercising because it has a tribal beat, lots of drums, many changes so its not repetitive. I don't do anything particular, kinda a mixture of dancing, dead dancing, jazz ballet, morris dancing, jumping jacks, ballet, skipping, etc... I just keep my body moving for the whole song. Actually, I play it twice for a total of almost 15 minutes. I get my heart rate up.
I like this song for the words also, and I find they get me agitated which is a good for exercising. Its an activist song - talks about our beautiful world (or so it looks from space) and the problems in it (a closer look reveals the human race).
The words are
Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
Dizzy with eternity.
Paint it with a skin of sky, brush in some clouds and sea
Call it home for you and me.
A peaceful place or so it looks from space
A closer look reveals the human race.
Full of hope, full of grace, is the human face.
But afraid, we may our home to waste.
There’s a fear down here we can’t forget hasn’t got a name just yet
Always awake, always around singing ashes to ashes all fall down.
Now watch as the ball revolves and the nighttime calls
And again the hunt begins and again the bloodwind calls
By and by again, the morning sun will rise
But the darkness never goes from some men’s eyes.
It strolls the sidewalks and it rolls the streets
Stalking turf, dividing up meat.
Nightmare spook, piece of heat, you and me, you and me.
Click, flashblade in ghetto night. rudie’s looking for a fight.
Rat cat alley roll them bones. need that cash to feed that jones
And the politicians throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes all fall down.
Commissars and pin-striped bosses role the dice
Any way they fall guess who gets to pay the price.
Money green or proletarian gray, selling guns instead of food today.
So the kids they dance, they shake their bones
While the politicians throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes all fall down.
Heartless powers try to tell us what to think
If the spirit’s sleeping, then the flesh is ink.
History’s page, it is thusly carved in stone
The future’s here, we are it, we are on our own.
If the game is lost then we’re all the same
No one left to place or take the blame.
We will leave this place an empty stone
Or this shinning ball of blue we can call our home
So the kids they dance, they shake their bones
While the politicians are throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes all fall down.
Shipping powders back and forth
Singing black goes south while white comes north
And the whole world full of petty wars
Singing I got mine and you got yours.
And the current fashions set the pace.
Lose your step, fall out of grace.
And the radical he rant and rage, singing someone got to turn the page
And the rich man in his summer home,
Singing just leave well enough alone
But his pants are down, his cover’s blown
And the politicians are throwing stones
So the kids they dance they shake their bones
Cause it’s all too clear we’re on our own
Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
It’s dizzying, the possibilities. ashes, ashes all fall down.