Today I turned the calendar over to August. Tonight I am baking a plum torte. Since I try to cook and bake seasonally, I feel like I’m measuring time with that cake. Cooking and sharing and tasting, I hope, will help me remember to appreciate time and not let it pass by unnoticed.
The plums, part of this week’s CSA box, are local, and the first of the year. They follow blueberries, and I’ve already made blueberry jam, blueberry syrup, blueberry sauce and I’m thinking about blueberry ice cream. But it’s time to move on…
I’ve always liked calendars, and I take real pleasure every December in choosing one for each member of the family. My schedule is on Google, but the calendar still hangs on the kitchen wall. For the last few years my kitchen calendar has featured old advertisements for food and drinks. It’s fun to see the fanciful and stylish ways that food has been marketed. Time measured by the season is so much more appealing than weeks and months.
Tomorrow I’ll share the torte with friends. I hope they also appreciate that berry season is over and done with, melons are coming in, and this is the perfect time for plums. We’ll hang out at the lake, and then the weekend will be over and I’ll need to pay attention to what day it is.
It’s sure to be a good day for cake.
I hope it was a wonderful day for cake by the lake.