Tuesday, November 13, 2012

The weekend, briefly

sage, waiting
{sage, waiting}

saturday coffee
{saturday coffee}

harvesting
{harvesting}

slicing
{slicing}

rose hips
{rose hips}

arranging
{arranging}

pomegrantes
{pomegranates}

I'm in full on Thanksgiving planning mode, which is one of my favorite places to be. I picked the sage we'll be using and I'm crossing my fingers that I can keep it alive for a week and a half. It's the Cleveland sage I love and once you use it you can't go back to the grocery store varieties. I'm babying it and refreshing the water every day.

The pomegranates came in a little late this year, but they're gorgeous. They're so readily available now, but I still think of them as precious and I wait for them all year. I don't think we're going to manage to make jelly this year, so I can eat them with impunity. You know you've picked a good pomegranate when you accidentally drop it and it splits wide open and spills juice all over the floor.

I'm doing recipe development for a holiday cocktail that will hopefully involve cranberries, ginger and bourbon. It's slow going because I can only test 2 or 3 drinks before I'm no longer an impartial judge. I'm an extremely amateur mixologist.

Rose hips and roses go together so well and I can't decide which is more beautiful - the flowers themselves or the traces they leave behind. The hips look just like scaled down pomegranates and I love them.

15 comments:

  1. Love all the pictures. Looks like a peaceful weekend of planning.

    Memoirs & Mochas

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  2. holy god, is it only a week and a half 'til thanksgiving now? i have been a tornado of incompetence this season.

    i am deeply jealous of your pomegranates - so beautiful! i'm a sucker for most harvest-y decorations (bring it on, gourds!), but pomegranates rule them all.

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  3. Sounds like a killer drink. Can't wait til you perfect it and share!

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  4. Ah, to live in LA and have a pomegranate tree! ...just slays me. So lucky.

    Swedes make a lovely rosehip soup (nyponsoppa)---but my favorite thing to do with them is actually rosehip ice cream. It ends up tasting similar to key lime, but it turns the ice cream a lovely pink color!

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  5. well, here you go again with all of this california goodness. i might have to go on an afternoon pomegranate hunt.

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  6. I am beyond jealous you have a pomegranate tree. They're my favorite!

    Alyssa
    The Glossy Life

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  7. we had pomegranates on public trees at our old place. you make me want to have one...

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  8. mmm. this post is getting me excited about the start of the holidays.

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  9. I'm sure this is redundant being that your entire blog is entitiled "Heart of Light," but your photos are always so bright & happy...they always lift my spirits when I read. Thank you!

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  10. i love that you're cocktail taste-testing for the perfect one. what better way to spend a saturday afternoon (and encourage a late afternoon nap!)

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  11. You are so awesome, I should have insisted that we hung out when I was in the City of Angels or at the very least invited myself to Thanksgiving!

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  12. One of the best bartenders in Atlanta said that when he's working on a new cocktail recipe he perfects the non-alcoholic portion first then starts in with the alcohol, so he can test more/longer. Might help you out? Either way I'm looking forward to the recipe!

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    1. That is exponentially more smart than my method (but also possibly less fun?). I'm not sure I really mastered the recipe but I'll report back soon!

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