summertime, and the livin' is easy

We're having our usual Bay Area heat wave now that "summer" is nearly over. It's a wonderful thing, although it makes me very lazy, indeed. Yes, even lazier than usual. C'est vrai. Shocking, I know.

Last weekend I found some red currants in a supermarket in Berkeley. I hadn't eaten these in 15 years or so. When I was a kid, we'd get to pick them from our grandmother's garden and just nibble away. The trick is to take a strand of them, stick the whole thing in your mouth, and pull- they all pop right off the delicate stems and explode in your mouth.

These currants, grown in Oregon or Washington, were a bit sourer than I remembered, but it didn't lessen the crazy nostalgia factor.