Day 37: Food, Glorious Food!!!!

Today was an excellent food day.  Oh my, was it good.  Breakfast was a giant cup of Fez green tea (green tea, spearmint and lemon grass) along with a slice of chocolate banana bread. I enjoyed that while reading a book and waiting for the sun to rise. That is a close to perfect morning for me.  After breakfast, I took the pups out for a three mile walk, then came home to shower.

The rest of the morning was an exercise in extreme bureaucratic frustration as I attempted to get school transcripts and three years of driving records (from three different states). The state of Georgia DMV took three calls, with an average of 12.23 minutes of hold time per call. Grrr.  For some reason, my Masters transcript was free and very easy to access, while my high school transcript cost slightly less than $10 and required me to send a copy of a photo ID as part of the request.  Seriously??!! Happily, after 4 hours, most of that was completed.

By that time I was starving.  I had the soup from last night (that we didn't eat) just sitting in the fridge, but it didn't seem like quite enough food for the three of us.  There was a container of cherry tomatoes hanging out on the counter, I had just purchased some pesto yesterday, and there was kale in the crisper... so pizza it was!  I wish I had taken a picture of that meal.  It was so beautiful.  The pizza had a gorgeous green base, little red polka dots, and green frills.  I tossed a tiny bit of cheese on top (no more than 2 tablespoons for the whole pizza).  The soup was a colorful mix of orange, green and white.  Put it all together and lunch was spectacular!  It tasted just as great as it looked.

After lunch, we took the dogs for another walk.  I was still quite irritated after the morning's interaction with poorly designed websites and even worse phone representatives, so we wandered around the neighborhood and ended up at the new dog park.  There was only one other dog there, a full sized rat terrier named Lenny.  He was a mere seven months old and was quite intimidated by Katy big dog.  Also, whenever Katy went to run at Lenny, Buckley ran barking madly after both of them. That caused stress for poor Lenny. It was very entertaining to Lenny's owner.  Happily, everyone was able to get along and no one got too badly frightened.

After the walk, it was time for dinner. I had big plans for dinner: butternut squash risotto, roasted garlic mixed with a little salt, pepper and black truffle oil - spread on bolo rolls, and finally, some roasted romanesco. What is romanesco, you ask? It is a mixture of broccoli and fractals.  Oh, so beautiful! I've added a picture for your viewing pleasure.


This is a brand new vegetable for me.  It was mild and sweet, and tasted even better than broccoli. It did not taste at all like its lesser cousin, cauliflower, for which I was grateful. Dinner was spectacular - oh so tasty!  And for dessert, baked Mutsu apples... so sweet and delicious.

What a fabulous food day!  I wish you could have all been there to share it with us.  YUM!!!

Be happy and healthy.