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while npr is busy with their spring pledge drive (the guilt! and more guilt and finally less guilt) pbs is apparently at it too. the vehicle for their begging this time around>julia childs (aka- the french chef). i was treated to multiple (awesome) episodes of the french chef on saturday afternoon. it made want to do terrible things with butter. the first show i watched was about omeletts. usually when i make an'omelett', it really turnes into scrambled eggs with stuff in 'em. however, per julia's brilliant instruction, i made my first ever real omelett-- it even folded over all pretty, just like hers did. two eggs beat together (with a little water) in a hothothot pan with a little budda-- i shook the pan just like julia told me to, added some shredded cheddar and fried potatoes and folded it over into my plate like a pro. i slapped some guac on top and served it up with sthe remaining potatoes, a coupla slices of sprouted wheat toast and a big glass of carrot/apple/lemon juice. mmm. so fast and awesome. thanks julia!

breakin' eggs

this was breakfast two saturdays ago. pretty good for an improv brekky-- potatoes, broc, celery, kale, and fakin bacon in a big fry up with peppery scrambled eggs, montery jack, and sambal on top. served up with some sprouted wheat toast. i made a lot of this and ate it for lunch all week. i am starting to get really interested in breakfast food. i stumbled across this breakfast blog .
cool rating scale, but i feel like s/he gets the same thing everywhere (poached eggs, variations of benedict, etc) though i guess that's ok-- i mostly get the same thing when i go out for brekky-- i get the rare urge for waffles or french toast, but i'm mostly a scrambled eggs and hashbrowns gal.

meh

i have been shockingly uninspired lately. exhibit A (above). nothing but potential deliciousness- lentils, sweet potato, garlic, ginger, diced cherry peppers, cumin, coriander, tumeric, coconut milk, basmati rice and cute shreds of cocconut on top. i ate this for dinner once and fed the rest to my dog. where did i go wrong? cilantro would have helped me thinks... what else though? this is alarmingly similar to this red lentil dal i make on a fairly regular basis that i love so much i could practically bathe in it, so what gives??? my mojo must have been set to 'suck!'.

i'm co-planning a dinner party-- on deck>
*venison medallions rubbed with cocoa and cayenne crusted with toasted pistaschios
*roasted root veggies (potatoes, beets, turnips, parsnips, you get the idea-- with a ton of oliveoil, s&p, rosemary, and a squirt of lemon)
*mache salad w goat cheese and possibly grapefruit
*old skool choc cake

i'm getting all filled with sweaty drooly desire at the very thought of it all...

i hope this dinner party pans out. i am in such a cooking rut! i've had my stand-by i'm-too-lazy/busy/hungry-to-cook meal (micro mac'n'cheese with faux chicken nuggets and crushed tortilla chips all mashed up together. sometimes i'll add peas intothe mix) three times in the last four days. seriously. that's ok on the odd night, but i need some inspiration here...

i'm thinking old skool pot roast and all the fixins next...

The Georgian cutlets with a mashed potatoes

just real quick before i dash off to kickboxing.

look at this>

this is one of my favorite snarky indulgences-- snickering at the way non-native english speakers (or writers-- mostly writers) misuse words.

i know it's wrong, i just can't help myself.

aside- the food seems interesting.