{"id":1853,"date":"2015-06-26T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/26\/june-26"},"modified":"2015-12-16T02:14:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T07:14:14","slug":"june-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangette.net\/2015\/06\/june-26\/","title":{"rendered":"June 26"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am feeling profoundly (or, as my fingers tried to put it, “feely profounding”) inarticulate today in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage<\/a>.\u00a0I keep thinking of my uncle Jerry, the first gay person I ever knew, whose death to AIDS in 1988 spurred me to activism as a young kid with moussed bangs and a Silence=Death sweatshirt<\/a>, and in whose memory June<\/a> carries one of her middle names. I wonder what he would say today. I’m grateful, relieved, elated, and beyond, that June will grow up in a world that’s very different from what I knew in 1980s Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

It also feels like a fitting time to reread John Birdsall’s whip-smart Lucky Peach<\/i>\u00a0piece, “America, Your Food Is So Gay<\/a>,” which was originally published a couple of years ago, I think.<\/p>\n

And given that it’s a Friday in late June, it would also be a fitting time to make watermelon popsicles.<\/p>\n

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June would eat popsicles, also known within our house as “popsissles,” for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and in truth, I can’t argue with that, especially if I exercise my parental privilege to decide what goes into said popsissles.<\/p>\n

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In this case, I used David Lebovitz’s simple and brilliant watermelon sorbetto recipe as a template. It starts with watermelon juice – just watermelon, zizzed in a food processor until liquefies – and then you take a little of that juice and warm it with sugar to make a watermelon simple syrup. [So smart, David! So smart.] That syrup then gets stirred into the remaining watermelon juice, along with lime juice and, if you want, a tiny splash of vodka, to help make the popsicles less ice-y. (I skipped the vodka, because I didn’t have any, and if you don’t want to use it, don’t.) In any case, the mixture was bright and big-flavored, and I was halfway inclined to pour it over a glass of ice and down it. But June’s breakfast, lunch, and dinner needs prevailed. We made popsicles.<\/p>\n

Happy weekend.<\/p>\n\n

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Watermelon Pops<\/h2>\n

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