Friday, May 4, 2012

Lazy Spring Day

It is a lazy day today, a beautiful, yet lazy day. Called in sick from work to work on my drawings, and got hungry, but not really feeling like putting much effort into making a meal. So, I opened my fridge and started pulling vegetables out, you just wash them, chop them, and you make yourself a salad.


There were some apples on the counter and since the day is nice, I got the impulse of making a salad with some fruit in it. Problem is, I don't quite have any idea what to do with apples, so I dug into my fruit basket and pulled out some mandarins. I started craving a taste, so I went with them.

I made a quick badly made dressing with two mandarins, a bit of lime juice, some orange juice, and olive oil. Salt, pepper, and a bit of ground ginger. I tasted it, and yup, it hit the spot. So then I proceeded to chop my veggies:

-Romaine Lettuce

-Spinach
-Cucumber
-Cabbage
-Red Bell Pepper
-Cilantro


and a fruit: 

-The Third Mandarin that survived the squeezing. 


I stared at the radishes in the fridge, they stared back at me, I closed the door on them. I regret it, a little, but, like I said, lazy day.

I did open the fridge again to pull out some dried cranberries. But still ignored the radishes. Next time!

And then, I just put everything together and made myself a nice little meal. It was actually quite... perfect. It went well with the climate, and with my mood. And now I can go back to doing some drawings, possibly painting.

Mmmmm.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Coming Back Soon

Haven't had time to do anything serious in my cooking other than quick stuff, but I will try to get back at doing something I want to talk about here once a week, in the mean time, I leave you with a wonderful page of The Joy of Cooking from the 60s:





You never know when you'll need to skin a squirrel!