Don't you get annoyed by people who tell you about what they made they make it sound really cool and pure and yummy and inspired and then they post pictures? Well, that is not me-well maybe a little bit, did you notice the penguin plate on which my masterpiece is displayed?
I've been branching out lately making bread (two weeks in row), making freezer jam (it actually worked and is pretty yummy), and now my caprese (?) salad for lunch. So it started when I saw the mozzarella (the real kind) on sale at King Soopers, next I found the really yummy heirloom (I think) tomatoes at Whole Foods, then I just needed some basil, olive oil and presto it was done and it was yummy and I had to have it for lunch because the rest of my family is kind of lame and doesn't like this kind of stuff. The tomato was to die for. The best I've had. I forgot about balsamic vinegar which would have made it even better I'm sure. Next time....I also have another yummy lunch planned--beet salad. I had a really yummy beet salad at a restaurant last week and haven't stopped thinking about it since. I saw red and yellow beets at Whole Foods and figured, what the heck--I can figure it out. I still need to get some goat cheese and argula. Can't wait!
In other news, when I first met Brady he called me C3PO because I guess I felt the need to spout off facts or be precise, or share something I heard on NPR or something. Anyway, I realized I am totally lame and in fact kind of C3PO-like after all. During Primary last week I felt myself feeling superior singing the real lyrics to Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree while clearly other adults (including the chorister) were not. Do you know what I'm talking about?
"Spring has brought me such a nice surprise, blossoms (not popcorn) popping right before my eyes" and "It wasn't really so, but it seemed to be (not seemed to me)..." See what I mean? I am proficient in over 43,000 dialects, blah blah blah.
So initially I was going to comment on the penguin plate-- but you did that yourself. So now my comment is about the beet salad. It reminds me of a scene in "Drowning Mona" where the wimpy husband says, "if life hands you a bowl of potatoes, make potato salad." And Bette Midler's character says, "Well Phil, life handed me a bowl of Sh*t what should I do with that?" And he goes, "Sh*t Salad?" Anyway for some reason Beet salad sounds like that to me and it makes me laugh.
ReplyDeleteOh and I also take pride in knowing the correct words to popcorn popping.
Oh my gosh, I don't even know if I have seen that movie. Don't knock it. Beets are way undervalued in my opinion (C3PO again)...
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