Lunch at Alloy. Dinner in Airdrie.
I got a great email from my mom, who is currently blissfully kayaking and walking on the beach in Costa Rica and thus behind on her internet consumption, including my blog updates. It read:
When dogs get hurt, they have to be kept from licking their wounds and making it worse. People too sometimes. Stop licking or we’ll have to put a cone on your head.
Too bad that wouldn’t fit inside a fortune cookie. It may be my new mantra, posted on my fridge or bathroom mirror: STOP LICKING OR WE’LL PUT A CONE ON YOUR HEAD.
(Which isn’t to say I’m still licking – as you know I’m on to bigger things. But, you know, my Mom knows me pretty well. And I thought it was a great analogy, if a little behind the times.)
There wasn’t much cooking done this weekend as I was more or less attached to my computer, working on Blog Aid. We ate roasted pepper and tomato soup, pizza and chili from the freezer, and C took me for an I-don’t-think-you-suck lunch at Alloy, where we had veggie pakoras with mint chutney (above), wine and burgers with yam fries saddled up beside. We both asked for sides of mayo, because what the hell.
Tonight we went to Mike’s cousin’s for a belated turkey dinner, at which his two stunning teenage daughters sat on either side of W and got him to eat boiled carrots straight up. By merely asking.
They picked me up off the floor in time to witness him eating HALF A BRUSSELS SPROUT. Not even disguised. For real. (You should know that we’ve endured many the hour-long standoff over something that could just possibly be a vegetable.) He was all like, sure ladies - I eat vegetables all the time.
I can see now how his teenage years are going to go.
Speaking of eating your vegetables, C’s new year’s resolution is to come up with more ways to eat beets and lentils. I adore that. It’s important to have achievable goals. I do a lot with lentils but had no beets to experiment with this weekend, and didn’t make it to the market. I’m sure you lot have a wealth of experience when it comes to both. Care to comment?
(Blog Aid update tomorrow – I promise. Exciting things are happening! But I have an article deadline first thing tomorrow morning that I should probably get moving on.)
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