New Creations

It's a rainy day here at Chez Sherando, which means a lot of things:

1) I'm on my third cup of coffee, it's nearly noon, and we had an incredible breakfast. 

2) muffins will be made today

3) some cleaning will get done

4) there will be general laziness (punctuated by fervent knitting), as well as a visit to the gym to be concluded with a soak in the hot tub. 

Here's the new breakfast creation:

That's a toasted slice of whole wheat boule topped with homemade herb mayonnaise, bacon, a deliciously ripe avocado, sliced romas, and two fried eggs. It was incredibly good. I love avocados. I'll have to think of what to call this, because it will be showing up on the menu again...

Yesterday was a good day--we had planned to go kayaking, but I got on a roll on my BGM Ulmus, and Salmaan was kind enough to be cool with me knitting all day until it was done. And, it is! Here's a shot of it blocking last night.

This photo doesn't do the colors justice, which is why I'll be waiting for a sunny day to post FO pictures of this. It's dry now, and is hanging over the back of my knitting chair. I can't stop looking at it. You know that feeling you get when you make a new recipe, and the finished product ends up looking as good or better than the photo in the cookbook? I'm feeling that kind of pride right now. It's a cool thing. 

Here are some pics I took yesterday of progress in the garden.

I harvested the last of the beets. These will be roasted up on a weeknight this week. We're going to have them with goat cheese stuffed chicken breasts. 

the peppers are coming in.

And of course, we're practically swimming in squash and zucchini right now.

Salmaan made some delicious raita with cukes out of the garden on Friday night--we had it with the Indian lamb meal that we love. That raita was so good, I could have eaten it by itself by the spoonful. 

Hope your Sunday is relaxing, and punctuated by the gentle patter of rain on the windowsill.

Suggested tunes:

Long Time Traveller by The Wailin' Jennys

Living in Twilight by The Weepies

Goodbye, Apathy by OneRepublic

Comments

[Mick]

The breakfast creation has me drooling over here! I think avocado and bacon is one of my favorite food combos (though I really love them on their own as well). It's not raining here today, but I'll be doing lots of knitting and some cooking, too. Congrats on the shawl! I can't wait to see it.