I don't know why, but lately I'm really attracted to what the Frugal Gourmet calls peasant food, particularly bean dishes. On the package of Northern White beans that my mom gave me, was a recipe for something called Portuguese Fisherman's Stew. Which called, of course, for Northern White beans, also stewed tomatoes, onions, garlic, and "firm ( Read more... )

Jimmy made delicious turkey, mozarella and green onion omelets with wheat toast for "breakfast" at about 1:00 p.m., and he just brought me a plate of bacon-wrapped scallops, broccoli, and saffron rice. Hol-eeee shit. He should fly to Kansas every week, if this is the pay off I get ( Read more... )

Ooh! I thought of a couple more good things that happened this weekend ( Read more... )

Got up this morning at 10 a.m., thinking that was pretty fine and maybe I wasn't going to waste the whole day just because of being up so late the night before. Then I remembered that I didn't really have anything I was obliged to do today. Which was good, as it turned out, because my ribs hurt a lot worse today for some reason. I think maybe ( Read more... )

Last night we went out to Indian food, and then went to see The Brothers Grimm. I never got my apertif, and the snuggling was somewhat polluted by me being completely slap-happy from being up past midnight. (I started yawning at 10 p.m., before the movie even started). But it was a good night. As soon as we walked into the Indian restaurant, I ( Read more... )

Ahhhh. Peace and quiet. Jimmy just took the kids to get dinner and then on a much-awaited trip to Toys 'R' Us. I have in mind a long list of things that it would be more convenient to do without the kids, like grocery shopping. But what I'm going to do first is have a nice, adult meal of tuna in red curry sauce over jasmine rice, possibly with ( Read more... )