Cast: Matt. Emma. Sveta, MoKs board member from Russia who has been staying with us while she silkscreens her heart out. Sandy, our new co-resident from New York via Wisconsin who makes drawings and sculpture, has already swam across Mooste Lake and can clean the hell out of a kitchen. Mosquitos, usual.
Setting: Field next to MoKs Bear-Graffiti Barn. Matt made a table out of some tree stumps and an old door he found. Hooked up battery powered speakers to computer playlist. In honor of performance art and nerdism, we have been playing "Ouilipod," where a random word is put into the search bracket of ITunes and we listen to the results. For this go around, Matt put in "woman," "grass," and "sunshine," I beleive, and made a shuffle of the total results.
Menu: Braised pork (the last of Piggy!), black beans (grown by a woman we met in Tartu), cabbage salad, quick pickles (cucumber, onion, garlic, carrot, radish), Estonian cheese (Voru Juust), rice, Dippi-infused sour cream (Sveta's party specialty: essentially a garlic powder and dehydrated vegetables mixture that you pour into sour cream. I love it...), fried fish that we had caught in the lake earlier in the day, homemade tortillas with hand-rendered lard, and good old Estonian beer.
We finished the night with a lovely "tee pee" campfire that Sandy expertly arranged, a present from Amsterdam and some fucked up marshmallows. Two nights before Karolina and I made some wonderful homemade marshmallows that we flavored with sea buckthorn juice and sadly were consumed without any documentaion. This batch did not turn out properly, as the gelatine separated and created a double-layer jelly sweet - quite delicious but incorrect. We flavored half this batch with strawberry and half with brandy and lemon. Recipe to follow upon further success story.
2 comments:
sooooo beautiful! and looks yummy too. can we have a repeat in portland?
i might cry. are you bringing an express dish when you come to chicago?
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