Shikaakwa
It’s ramps season!! ^_^ We found a lovely bunch of them at the Logan Square Farmers Market popup in Unity Park this weekend.
I knew it was ramps season because the four patches of secret ramps I have planted in my neighborhood are up! I’m leaving them mostly alone and hoping that they establish themselves and slowly spread. If anyone else in Chicago (or elsewhere!) wants to stealthily fill their parkways and vacant lots with ramps, here’s where I get my bare root plants and seeds!
Niles is cooking some ramps into a pan of hash browns as I type this, and it smells amazing. I’m going to make myself a batch of duck egg mayonnaise tomorrow and mix some roasted ramps into it. I’m going to slice up some of the leaves and add them to some lunchtime salads too.
Upcoming Things:
This weekend, Corinne Mucha and I were over at Sara Varon’s place, learning how to use her risograph machine. I made prints of a sign that the amazing Helen Rosner commissioned me to paint for her bathroom many years ago. I only have a few of these so far, so for now if you want one, come find me in person!
• I will be at the Art Mart at Federales Logan Square next Saturday, May 3, from noon-3pm. Stop by! I’ll have books and prints and the above bathroom sign. There will be some other very talented artists too, and $1 from every margarita will go to The Center for Changing Lives.
• Also, I will be exhibiting at CAKE Chicago in June! It’s in a new location this year, but it looks like it’s easily accessible from the blue line, which bodes well for me. ^_^
Hey Sarah, how’s the book going:
12 pages down!! 12/192. I have a long way to go. >_<
What I’m into lately:
I just finished Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt. It was lyrically poetic, violently brutal and intensely evocative, and one of the most unique and compelling haunted house stories I’ve ever read. It was a terribly appropriate read for These Times, and it has really, really stuck in my head.
What Toki’s into lately:
Il est oraaaaaaaaaaaannnnge. ^_^
