BOOKS for SALE!

Hello All,

I am cleaning out my bookshelf as I am moving in just over a month and have found that i do not need to hang on to so many books anymore. I am saving up to go on a trip to Israel in August as well as saving up to feed my need for raising plants so I am selling the following books for $3 each. Most are used only by me some were purchased used and some are new. I would prefer not to trade books but i will consider trades for books by the following authors: Amos Oz, Umberto Eco, Wendell Berry. Please let me know if you are interested in anything.

in no particular order.

1. The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
2. The picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde
3. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
4. Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
5. The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkein
6. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert m. Pirsig
7. Silas Marner by George Elliot
8. Letters from the Earth Uncensored writings by Mark Twain
9. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
10. A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess
11. Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
12. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
13. Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes
14. But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes by Anita Loos
15. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
16. Sexual Perversity in Chicago and The Duck Variations by David Mamet
17. Isadora Speaks Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan
18. The Real Isadora by Victor Seroff
19. Margot Fonteyn by Alastair Macauley
20. My Life by Isadora Duncan
21. Kate’s Turn by Jeanne Betancourt
22. South Loop Review Volume 8 (A Collection of creative nonfiction of which some of my work is included)
23. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
24. Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote
25. The Avignon Quintet Lawrence Durell
26. Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
27. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
28. Present Like a Pro by Cyndi Maxey and Kevin E. O’ Connor
29. The Poems of Alexander Pope
30. The Friday night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
31. The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
32. How to Dance Forever by Daniel Nagrin
33. Diet for Dancers by Robin D. Chemlar and Sally S. Fitt
34. The Dancers’ Body Book by Allegra Kent
35. Deviance in Soviet Society by Walter D. Connor
36. Nureyev by Diane Solway
37. Communism A History by Richard Pipes
38. Fear and Lothing in Las Vegas and Generation of Swine by Hunter S. Thompson
39. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
40. Spring Moon by Bette Bao Lord
41. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
42. The Israelis by Dona Rosenthal
42. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
43. The Wasteland and Other poems by TS Eliiot
44. Great Biographies (George Washington, Mahatma Ghandi, Einstein, Marie Antoinette, The Autobiography of Mark Twain)
45. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
46. The Human Tradition in the Vietnam Era edited by David L. Anderson
47. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
48. 100 Lessons in Classical Ballet by Vera S. Kostrovitskaya
49. Nijinsky, Pavlova, Duncan Three Lives in Dance edited by Paul Magriel
50. F. Scott Fitzgerald A to Z by Mary Jo Tate
51. Macbeth Libretto by Giuseppe Verdi
52. Tristan und Isolde Libretto by Richard Wagner
53. Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
54. Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao
55. Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
56. Mending the Past and Healing the Future with Soul Retrieval by Alberto Villoldo
57. Natural Health, Natural Medicine by Andrew Weil
58. The Vietnam Reader
59. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
60.Child of the Holy Grail by Rosalind Miles
61. Crossing California by Adam Langer
62. Not for Tourists Guide to Chicago 2006
63. Super Review Italian
64. Oggi in Italia 7th edition text and workbook
65. Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
66. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
67. The Beautiful and the Damned by F Scott Fitzgerald
68. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut jr.
69. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
70. Desolation Island by Patrick O’ Brian
71. The Mauritius Command by Patrick O’ Brian
72. H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O’Brian
73. Post Captain by Patrick O’ Brian
74. Master and Commander by Patrick O’ Brian
75. After Such Knowledge by Eva Hoffman
76. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
77. The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald
78. America’s War in Vietnam A Short Narrative history by Larry H. Addington
79. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
80. Emma by Jane Austen
81. The Return of Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
82. 1984 by George Orwell
83. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
84. Zelda by Nancy Milford
85. Russian History by Neil M. Heyman
86. Major Problems in the History of Imperial Russia by James Cracraft
87. Photo icons The Story Behind the Pictures Volume 2 by Hans-Michael Koetzle

In honor of, in place of actual celebration of, Pesah (or Passover)...

I made macaroons.

The CRC would not consider these kosher for Pesah but there is no immediately recognizable chametz in them. Really simple and easy to make. recipe here. The coconut i used is flaked and not shredded. It is from Bob's Red Mill. I bought it at True Nature Foods, my local natural health food store. I bet Whole foods will have unsweetened coconut too.

More things that go sprout in the night

Remember this? well this is what it looked like 2 weeks ago:

and this is what it looks like now:

living happily next to the bamboo.

And this is what is inside our grow closet:

that is sweet pepper on you left (they look like propellers) and kale on your right.

thyme

the mysterious "lettuce" plant. we think it is actually more like a bean but it came with the lettuce seeds that i ruined.

Here is a current view of our grow closet:

We hung black garbage bags inside the doors so it doesn't look so ominous when the doors are closed. Our worm bin is in here too all the way at the bottom.

We now have a grow closet!

we have decided that in the current economy to keep our ends met to grow pot in our closet and go into the pot brownie business. We grow only the finest black rooster weed, our own specially raised variety that you can only get from us. Please place your orders early as we already have a long waiting list.

Um...or we are starting the seeds for our roof garden indoors since the official frost free date in Chi-town isn't until mid to late May (depending on who you ask) and the growing season is relatively short.

We planted kale, peppers, thyme, rosemary, oregano and chamomile last week and already have little seedlings. We will be planting tomatoes, basil and mint sometime this week. We also have a mystery plant from a 6pack of lettuce that I planted at a workshop. i left the seedlings in the dark too long and had to scrap them but this mystery survived and seems to be doing well. We think it is a bean. i will post pictures soon

We also have a livestock addition to our little urban homestead: WORMS!

This is me wetting out their bedding in the sink.
We were able to trade some plants for some worms from a friend. We were just going to pay her for them but when she heard about what were growing in the closet for the roof we decided that a trade would be more appropriate. A good deal on both sides I think!

Challot

i went to a Shabbat 101 class several weeks ago. We made challah (which is an egg bread, related to brioche but with no butter). I have successfully (more or less) been making challah every week since. Homemade bread just tastes so much better. And this one is very simple.

Naomi's Challah

1pkg rapid rise yeast
1/4 cup water
1tsp sugar
Combine and set aside

4 1/2 cups flour
2tsp salt
2Tbl oil
1/3 cup honey
3 egg yolks
1 cup water

1 egg yolk and 1 tsp water for egg wash

Combine flour and salt and mix together. Add oil, honey (use a clear glass measuring cup. put in the oil and then the honey. the oil will float to the top of the honey and the honey will release from the cup easier) and the egg yolks. Mix. Add yeast mixture and 1 cup of water. mix all together until combined and then knead for several minutes until smooth and elastic. You can add some flour or water if either is necessary.
Let rise for 1-1 1/2 hours covered with a clean towel (This recipe does not double in size). Split dough into 6 balls and roll out into ropes. Braid to make 2 challahs. Let rise on a cookie sheet for another 30 minutes. Brush with egg wash and bake at 350 F for 25-30 minutes.

You can save the egg whites and make your self an omelette. If I am not using them right away i cover with plastic wrap and keep them in the fridge.

In the photo above i just used egg white for the egg wash instead of the yolk. Using the yolk will give you the classic dark brown shiny crust. I didn't have a lot of eggs so i decided not to crack another one just for eggwash since i had the whites anyway.

I have also successfully doubled this recipe if you want to give some to friends or just freeze some for later.