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When Stephanie and I were at Beulahland the other day, they had this thing that looked like a blueberry pie but with crumb topping in the place of the top crust. It was bizarre - if you're going to go to the trouble of making crust, you might as well go all the way and make a real pie. Crumb topping is for people like me who can't be bothered with rolling out pie crust and just make fruit crisps instead. I love these because you can whip them up in five minutes, they taste as good as a pie, and they are virtually impossible to screw up. I usually use granny smith apples, but today I actually tried something new (alert the press) and used a mix of random fruits I had laying around: red apples, apricots, frozen blueberries, raisins. It was the bomb. I even did it vegan-style with earth balance "buttery sticks." Here is the basic recipe. Quantities aren't really important, you just use however much fruit it takes to fill whatever pan you have, and you can reduce the sugar and butter and it's still yummy. I really want to try this with fresh blueberries or blackberries, since it's summer and all.
Summer also means drinking outside in the afternoon - there's nothing finer. That's why we were at Beulahland looking at the weird pie thing, we were there ordering rum and pineapple juice to drink outside in the sun. Rum and pineapple juice is my new favorite summer cocktail, it's like a stripped-down cheapo pina colada. Then later we were at the Nightlight after I crashed her car* drinking sweet, complicated, coffee-flavored drinks, again outside in the sun, and when Stephanie was inside peeing the ice cream truck drove by, and I flagged him down and got a strawberry shortcake bar and a neopolitan ice cream sandwich. Stephanie then came outside and was like, "Shoshanna! I knew it!" This is why I love summer vacation, and also why I am glad it will only last a week.
*Really, it was more like a tap than a crash. And it wasn't that I was drunk, it was because I don't know how to drive. Working on that.
Three things that happened today:
1. I lost my cell phone.
2. I rode my bike a lot.
3. We (I) made cookies from a tube for Kevin's work potluck and I ate several.
