...seems to be what I eat. To be fair, we do eat really well around here. I took a photo of our refrigerator this week, just so you can see the serious level of organization it takes to pack that much food in one average-sized fridge.
On the menu:
- "primal" peanut butter-banana muffins
- "half-primal" (1/2 whole wheat flour, 1/2 coconut flour) carob zucchini bread
- cheeseburgers with caramelized onions
- apple seaweed salad
- black beans in homemade beef stock
- rosemary roasted potatoes and chicken
- creamed herb zucchini
- mexican-style grilled corn
- smoked, dry-rub ribs
- sausage, onions and peppers with fennel root (I think the sausage was made by roomie D? El señor B was on a freezer-clearing binge)
- watermelon
I purchased some aluminum baking cups for the primal muffins this week and it worked WAY better - I think the eggs are what made them stick so bad to my non-stick muffin tins. I'm going to try to re-use the ones we pull off without ripping. We'll see if that works. I am very much enjoying the cut, 1/4-watermelons available at our grocer. Small enough for us 3 to finish easily and also we get to see the apparent fruit quality. I tend toward choosing less-ripe melons because the light pink-whitish bites are my favorite.
Finished editing lab experiments, mostly finished my department's website work, turned in my final grades, have gotten a bunch of chores done around the house. Now I need to run a bunch of "big box store" errands this afternoon.
Had a nice cocktail with ladyfriends G and M last night at Restaurant Magnus.
The Finn's #7 Cup and Batida were tasty-tasty and not too sweet. The Dodsfall Manhattan was okay, but with a sort of apple-juicy aftertaste (no, I did not have 3 drinks, we all traded sips). It's always hard for me to deviate from a plain ol' dry martini, but the last couple times I've been rewarded with an interesting mixed drink.
Tomorrow night I'm invited to dinner with K & S - I'll have to take over some of the carob zucchini bread for dessert. I'm supposed to also play some Wii games, we'll see.
All in all I'm very much enjoying my rather laid-back "home vacation" aka the 3 weeks between semesters. I've still got a lot of prep work for my algebra class but I'm going to worry about that next week.
For those of you who don't know, B.L. is an enormous cat who is adorable playing with milk rings and terrified of everything.
My parents visited from MO this weekend, just left this morning. We did the usual stuff - farmer's market, kitchen store, other various strolling and window shopping. I took my parents to my school to show them where I taught and we checked out my new office. Didn't do any gardening activities because the mosquitoes are so bad this year, even DEET won't keep them off. Mumsie helped out with the big Saturday cook-off; took Pfather out to a couple bookstores and a couple good beer spots and had a variety of IPA's on hand at the house. Did a bit of eating out. Got my mom hooked on the Inspector Linley series from PBS's Mystery!
My parents and I made some more stained-glass looking mosaics (pics at left with and without flash - m&d's on left, mine on right). I couldn't find any good glass at the local craft stores so instead I went to St. Vinny's and bought a bunch of clear, colored glasses and plates that we broke into pieces. As such, the shards were of varying thickness and degree of curvature, which made grouting pretty difficult. Still, I think they turned out well and I'm hoping they'll garner a bit of cash for a friend's cancer benefit next weekend. I also took a couple pics of the mosaic I made for the class I took with S, on the right.
On the menu:
