la vie en jaune

looking at the world through sunshine colored lenses on this windy october day.

pineapple

did you know?

did you know that those big  pendant magenta flowers that hang from banana clusters were edible themselves? neither did i. they slowly peel open like an endive, and between the leaves there are little florets that are edible once they have been soaked to remove their bitterness. the florets are what you see in cross section in this photo. the process sounds incredibly labor intensive, so i don’t know if i will ever eat banana flower florets, but i’m awfully glad this project introduced them to me!

banana flower

little bat wings

each time i look at this composition, the first thing that jumps to mind are spindly little bat arms stretching out their wings of skin. i can safely say i have never associated star fruit with bat wings before in my life, and may never do so again.

star fruit

new perspective

this jicama root surprised me with the delicate gradations of its coloration. i have associated jicama with bland, white, and slightly crunchy rectangles to be dipped into something creamy and eaten along with raw carrots, broccoli, and green beans at summer parties. i did not know it could impersonate phases of the moon rendered in rice paper.

jicama (Pachyrhizus erosus)

p.s. today is my husband, steve, and my 31st wedding anniversary.

edible lacework

i love these lacy lotus root slices and this particular pattern, but i just realized i could have tried to make a lace collar in honor of justice bader ginsburg and now the current pattern feels like a fatal lack of vision. rest in power, rbg.

lotus root (lotus rhizome)