Homemade Paw Paw Ice Cream

You will need:
1 1/2 cups cream
1 1/2 cups half and half
3/4 cup sugar
1/8 tsp salt
3 paw paws, mashed
Bowl
Whisk
Ice cream maker

Paw paws are a fruit that grow on trees. They have a lot of seeds and taste like a banana but have the texture of a mango. Making ice cream is easy! You don't need to heat anything with this recipe. Just whisk the ingredients together until the sugar has dissolved and then freeze your base in an ice cream maker according to the instructions. There are ice cream makers that allow you to make as little as 1 pint of ice cream at a time.

Paw Paw Ice Cream

The Flies

The flies land on all the food
They have fecal paws and a short lifespan
They lay eggs

They have eight legs, two of which they rub together
Three are for support
and the others are for things like grooming and changing contacts
flitting in and out of their field of vision.

They're on a mission and your shuga is the prize.
Misunderstood for years and years
You probably won't believe your ears:
They float, build hope
and help with things like cakes and pies.

The Flies

If you laughed all the time, you probably would
If you talked like you owned it, you probably could
The good news is it's easy; all you have to do is try
There's a lot in the way when enough for today
is enough for the rest of your life

The Bassist

The Fields

Cool spools
Coiled cold loops
Matches moment passing in evaporation 
drooping thickly sweetened fruits
dropping into high grasses.

Jointed rashes hover in roots
washed through laces of a dreary calculus 
towards dissolution.

Semper in absentes felicior aestus amantes.
A distance lightly littered
by a moon scooping stars without pause
Scientifically, because of gravity, of course.

The Fields

The Jackal

The Jackal has a sad, lonesome pout.
It opens its mouth wide and shivers, then prances aimlessly towards something for breakfast. It's missing several teeth.

It only has a dollar, which doesn't buy much.
It settles on a piece of cake, but isn't very happy that there isn't any meat in it.

It lays against the ground and bits of sharp gravel poke into its ribs. Its eyes brush gently through the surrounding landscape, after awhile deciding it needs to keep moving.

Its gaze becomes shared with a mischievous rabbit which tumbles wildly out of its burrow into the jackal's slack jaws. The rabbit likes being tickled. The jackal bites into a fresh kill, delighted with its good fortune.

It picks and paws at leisure through the better part of it as night begins to approach. It shuffles to its feet and exits to an overcast sky with a few stars. The dirt is handsome and makes the Jackal faster. It looks right, then left and back behind.

The Jackal

https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/simple-ribollita
https://www.recipetineats.com/easy-yeast-bread-recipe-no-knead/

This is literally the easiest bread recipe ever. Never done it before? Start here. It's... unbelievably, almost identical to something you'd find in a bakery. The main components for the soup are negotiable. Pesto = a bunch of basil and maybe some parsley in a blender with a big handful of parmesan and a few cloves of garlic, drowned in olive oil until you have a thin paste. Pine nuts are optional, which would technically make it a "pistou" instead of a "pesto" I suppose. It goes in the soup at the end. Ok?

Maybe you don't like the idea of having chlorinated water or iodized salt destroying your yeast. Use something else instead. What a great idea! A warm place is something room temperature or above, which is where you want it hiding out for 2 or 3 hours. If you let it rise in the same bowl you mixed it in, it will stick, so get creative. Let it rest for 10 minutes like the directions say.

You need:
3 cups of bread flour
Instant yeast packet
130 degree F water
A large bowl or two
Plastic wrap
Non-iodized salt
A dutch oven
An oven at 450 degrees F
Parchment paper
A thermometer to check the temperature of the water

You also need:
A large can of whole tomatoes
A large bunch of kale
2 cans of butter beans
3 carrots
1 onion
A few cloves of garlic
Olive oil
Salt and pepper
More water

A chef's knife
A vegetable peeler
A cooling rack
A cutting board
A towel or pot holder
Something to eat soup with
And lastly, some patience

Homemade bread and Ribollita

The Long Walk

Lemon isn't an imaginative flavor
but in this case it makes sense.
It weighs a ton when they bring them in
because they're all picked together. That's the best way to do it.
Someone probably goes through the trees and finds the ones that are a little too green
to help pass the time on the way to the store. I'm not sure.
Either way it's a nice surprise and there's a puzzle on the back of the box.
Why would you want it any other way.

The Long Walk

https://archive.org/details/inferno_202106

Cosi n' andammo infino alla lumiera, 
parlando cose, che il tacere è bello, 
sì com' era il parlar colà dov' era.

Swiss Chard And Bacon Quesadillas

https://openai.com/chatgpt
https://openai.com/dall-e-3

The Last Delivery

The Coins

Furry, shackled shadows in the street
Broken, fragile, weak and cheap
Illustriously dusted green shoots of crocuses
unlace from the ground
breathing hidden meaning they can keep.

Gumby pops out of the cornfield for a conversation.
He's friendly after all.

His eyes are like glassy marbles
and I realize something isn't right.
He drags his feet through the rocks,
grabs the stalks with both fists and rips them upwards.
They pop and snap as he curses God
and scrapes the salt from his skin
to follow the road home for a warm bath.

Gavin Hitchins