give it your best shot
i usually have some green tea or something in the afternoon when i get home from work, if i don’t choose (or don’t have time) to take a quick nap. it’s still early enough to convince myself that it won’t interfere with my (hopeful :) good night sleep, and helps me have a nice burst of happy productivity before dinner and my sweetie comes home.
we had some pumpkin spice coffee in the freezer leftover from a gathering we’d had. i like it fine but will isn’t into the flavors, so i had to use it up when he wasn’t home. hot coffee in the afternoon usually gives me a headache (for no explicable reason....) but cold coffee i was willing to try...
i mixed way too many beans with way too little water in the french press*, but i didn’t want that much liquid, just the good stuff ;) i let it cool down on the counter for ten or fifteen minutes and put some vanilla ice cream in a bowl. of course i poured the warm coffee over the ice cream, and with a spoon (and without a spoon!) that bowl was empty in about three minutes.
whether it was preparing for morning travel or not, i didn’t sleep much that night. but boy did i get everything done :)
*post-europe will procured an espresso machine for my birthday, so now we just run the shots right over the ice creammmmmmm mmmm mmmm mmmmmm... :)
save the good stuff
i know this is a bit of a strange thing to put in the “brilliant moment” category, but, really.....it kind of deserves it :) so i pack my lunches every morning for work, and the other day i opened the fridge and for about three seconds thought, “oh no, there’s nothing to eat....” ha! then i immediately set about making a hummus and tomato sandwich and a salad meant to fill me up (spinach with kidney beans, raisins, cucumber, tomato, sunflowers seeds....green onions.....the usual fare, but much more of it!)
at work i often eat too much when i’ve brought perishable leftovers and can’t stand to waste them, and i’m trying to avoid this predicament (i also don’t want to have too little!). so when i started to get full that day (sandwich went first) i ate the remainder of the spinach, ‘cause that’s really the only thing dressing will do a not-very-appetizing number on and kept the Good Stuff for that night when i could dump it on some greens and call it a Two Second Salad :)
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mustardone somethin' weird with those mashed potatoes...
if i made mashed potatoes the way i would want to eat them there would likely be a whole stick of butter in there (as well as the several cloves of garlic i chopped up)....so i tried to get a little inventive (as i tend to do ;) i did mix a bit in, but then switched to a few spoonfuls of mayo, and what goes well with mayo? mustard, of course! i hesitated for just a second (it's usually only a second ;) and then dropped in a good spoonful. YUM! (some ground salt always helps, as potatoes are in themselves quite bland.) i don't think will made any specific comments (other than pointing out the copious amounts of garlic and how that is "always a good thing"), but by now he would not be surprised to find that mustard has been added to anything he has been fed.
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in the palm of your hand
so i’m totally a chocoholic, and lately i’m a total dried cranberry-holic, too, and let me tell you what is delicious: that.
it’s pre-dinner at the moment and i’m about to start cooking, but i’m craving things....and they’re that much better even when you’re hungry.....BUT i took it upon myself to arrange in my hand a few cranberries, a few broken up chunks of leftover christmas fudge, and a few lightly salted almonds that my sweetie brought home today.
a perfect, amazing mouthful of wonderful things, and a couple of those satiated even me! woo hoo! :)
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like mustard for pizza
no biggie, i know people often use olive oil, if nothing else. so i did that, but then remembered how i had made that salmon pasta super awesome with mustard, so i went in the fridge and spread a large spoonful around with the oil.
SUPER DUPER GOOD! i stir fried red peppers, yellow crookneck squash, onions, garlic and chard (STILL from the garden! :) and dumped that generously on top, along with some muenster. it took will several minutes to figure out the secret ingredient (tho it was right on the tip of his tongue.... ;)
