The Last Thing You Put In Your Mouth....

They only gave you half a crawfish sammich? What manner of cruelty is this???


Black coffee.

half a potato mushroom burek
half a spinach burek

a little bowl of apple sauce on the side

feeling more human now

dance class was awesomely brutal tonight

wanna see my shoulder isolations?

The food sounds great.

(I don't even know what shoulder isolations are..)

Well considering they ordered the food for a conference meeting (assorted sammiches, fruits, salads, etc...), I'm grateful that they allow us office drones access to the remainders. #appreciative


Whatever they are, they sound painful.

Proscuitto and mozarella panini with roasted peppers

some very tasty fish (cod with tarragon and other herbs) that Set picked for his birthday meal

I had mine with coleslaw veggies (without the coleslaw dressing) and potato salad

a soup that turned out -
madagascar pink rice, roasted poblano chiles, beef stock, some tomato sauce, caramelized onions, prev cooked black beans, sliced pork sausage, and who knows what else since some of those were cooked before and frozen with label some failure

Some of the best oysters I've ever had the pleasure to consume.

And happy Bday, Setanta.

HB, Set.


I just put a spoonful of Satan's raging revenge in my mouth, seems like. Went WAY overboard with the hot sauce in the chili. Now I've got to add a bunch of filler in order to make it edible.

Birnen, Bohnen und Speck with some of Set's homemade birthday meatloaf

(I'll pass the birthday messages on to the lad )

Steve's NOLA Coffee and Donut ice cream

Tortilla with grilled chicken, salsa, and red onion salad

zinc tablet

aspirin

cold air

just sprinted down to the subway and back with the little bunny dog

this is soup season so tonight it's mushrooms/onion/garlic and broccoli soup with a chunk of hard summer sausage in it for flavouring

last night ... butternut squash/red pepper soup

My whole year is soup season, but autumn is special..

Last thing for me was a pecan - I like them and hardly ever buy them. I went crazy recently and bought some (not very many) pecans and porked out on pistachios, which I haven't bought in years. They both are dangerous for my wallet.

I'm making molasses pecan cookies as we speak. The rest of the pecans are in the dough, so their safe from me for a while.

I really really really hate to eat cooked food when it's hot so my stove/oven are storage facilities in the summer.

Now, it's all burner firing!

Brad's Organic spelt pretzels

I getcha. Since I make essentially all my food dishes except for the odd restaurant visit, I do cook in summer high heat. It's good monetarily that I have the time to do this and pretty much like it, very handy or I'd be in big doo doo otherwise.
I do not like July or August here, even though it's famously dry heat, for many reasons and cooking is only one of them. This is a change from the old me, probably mediated by increasing age and six years recently in a climate that only got to 63 F in the height of summer. I adapted to that, apparently. Also odd, this is the only place in my lifetime that I've lived with any kind of air conditioning, in this case something I'd not heard of, swamp coolers. They bring interior temp down a bit.

The bad news is I screwed up on the cookies. What was I thinking? I pulled down the bottle of raw honey, admittedly flavorful, but not the molasses. No wonder the dough looked oddly pale. Bah! But I'll keep on rolling..