postcard

[boxofdelights]

I got a postcard from seascribe today! It is from Montreal, a view of the Old Port and downtown, from her recent trip to Canada. I think the fall colors in the background must be the Mont Royal Park, but I am not familiar enough with Montreal to identify images. Mungo says his dorm backs up to Mont Royal. The house feels empty, emptier and stranger than I had thought. I don't know how to shop! I buy delicious foods and three days later they are still here! Mungo and I were in Montreal for only a short time last fall, and ate many delicious foods but not poutine. According to Ray Kowalski, in this epistolary fic which is also from scribe and seascribe's trip to Canada, that was a mistake.

I am still attempting to post every day in September, even though my first day spilled over into the second. I thought I had lots of ideas but I keep blanking. Got any suggestions?

Comments

[seascribble]

I LOVE Montreal, I hope he enjoys it there and has fun at the school. If you ever go to visit him, you should have poutine. I basically was Ray Kowalski in that particular instance. *g*

[malkingrey]

Poutine is wonderful heart-attack food. The part of New Hampshire I live in is close enough to the Canadian border that it's in what you might call the Poutine Zone -- go another two small towns south along Route 3, and you're out of it -- so I don't have to go to Montreal to get my fix.

Montreal is full of wonderful food, though; if you haven't been already, next time you're there check out Juliette et Chocolat. They specialize in hot chocolate, but not as Nestle's Instant or Swiss Miss know it.

[umadoshi]

Juliette et Chocolat is amazing. I've only been to Montreal a few times, but was fortunate enough to discover it on my very first visit.

[amaebi]

I am scawed of poutine.

[boxofdelights]

So is Simon. He loves French fries, but the thing as a whole did not appeal.

On the food still being in the kitchen

[kathmandu]

In the short term, you can cook in the accustomed quantities and then freeze in single-serving containers, so it'll keep until you feel like eating it (or like not cooking that night).

If the problem is fresh fruit sitting out, put it in the fridge; it'll last ~ a week longer. If it's going by faster than you eat it, cook and freeze as above.

In the near-medium term, probably a lot of things that were 'buy every time' are now 'check inventory, buy if almost out'.

You probably know all that already. I just have a strong advice reflex.

It is an adjustment.

I lived with my mother and younger sibling for several years after college (we're on good terms; I got a job in the same town and didn't want to move out when I could have company and provide help with the sibling).
When I wound up alone in that apartment, I stopped eating fruit. It wasn't intentional, or even conscious. I would buy lovely fresh fruit as usual, bring it home, and then not eat it. Eventually it went moldy and I threw it out, then scrubbed the fruit-bowl and bought more, because I love fruit. Repeat several times.

Once I caught on to the pattern, I switched to buying only frozen or canned fruit, so it could keep until I actually did feel like eating it. Took about a year before the stealth emotional reaction wore off and I was actually eating fruit consistently.

[jesse_the_k]

My only suggestion is also a love letter to your tag: "don't be interesting just post" but in my experience you're always interesting so just post.

But here are some random prompts:
- fave childhood food
- your first pet
- stuff about college. Did you go? would you go again? did you learn useful stuff? what do you still want to learn? and most importantly, have you offloaded all the books and papers from then?