Apples and mushrooms

I emptied the rain gauge a few minutes ago. It was completely full, which means we have had about 40 millimeters of rainfall over the past two days — more than an inch and a half. And it's supposed to rain every day this week. The wind that comes with the rain has shaken a lot of apples out the trees out back. When the rains stop, we'll have to gather them all up so that Walt can mow the yard one last time this year. And the wet ground has resulted in another mushroom bloom. They are white ones this time. By the way, the temperature outside this morning is 18ºC — almost 65ºF. A week ago, the morning lows were in the high 40s and low 50s.

    

    

Meanwhile, I've been working on my cooking project. On Friday I cooked 2½ lbs. of pork shoulder for three hours in broth with vegetables and aromatics. Yesterday, after the cooked meat had spent the night in the refrigerator, I cut it up into little pieces. Then I went down to the greenhouse and picked a big bunch of parsley. We have a parsley plant in there that keeps coming back spontaneously every year, growing in the gravel and sand floor. All we have to do is harvest it. The abundance of parsley leaves is what moved me to make jambon persillé de Bourgogne over the weekend. We plan to have have some of it for lunch today. More about that tomorrow.