sigh
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011I’m having a boring, frustrating week. I did poorly on an exam (which I may have mentioned), and now I’m feeling the need to prove myself academically, and I’m having a hard time doing it. I just have so much to do that I can’t focus on any one thing long enough to excel.
The work – it is constant.
Anyway.
I know it’s no Dogfish Head – but I love me some pumpkin beer, and this one is pretty tasty.
On Monday I made vaguely Asian inspired tempeh and butternut squash tacos. I thought breaking the tempeh into smaller pieces would make it more flavorful, but then I baked it after marinating it, and it dried out. It took a lot of greek yogurt to make them moist enough again – but at that point, they were pretty tasty.
On Tuesday night, we went out with my parents to Southern Sun.
I had one of the specials, a steak sandwich with horseradish mayo and melted cheese of some variety called ‘I can’t remember but it was white and damn delicious’.
And my mom gave me a piece of her crabcake sandwich.
My dad had the other special, the fish and chips. I love fish and chips, but for whatever reason I was of the opinion that my sandwich would be healthier.
Obviously that was not the case.
Fortunately, my sandwich was good enough that I didn’t regret not ordering the fish. I wanted a bite, but by the time I looked up, there were only fries remaining – clearly the fish was not a disappointment either.
Crockett had a salad with pecans and arugula and who knows what else. He loved it, but he ate half my sandwich too. That’s the problem with salad, yo. Sometimes you just need a sandwich too .
On Thursday, Crockett made beer.
In an enormous pot in our kitchen.
With hops from our hops plant.
It’s bubbling away under my feet right now.
Yesterday, Crockett went to the CU homecoming game and I stayed home to work. I took two quick breaks – one to make chocolate chip cookies and one to make cauliflower gratin.
For breakfast today: plain yogurt with cherries and a crumbled cookie.
For lunch today: cauliflower gratin (made with orange cauliflower, not purple and orange like Deb’s).
The cookies are mediocre, due to some changes I made to the recipe because of last minute ‘holy shit I haven’t gone to the store lately’ shortages, but the gratin? People, it’s like macaroni and cheese if the macaroni were replaced with delicious firm cauliflower instead.
Anyway. I’ll be better about posting this week, promise.
How was everyone else’s week?