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baked oats |
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green chile chicken enchiladas |
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chow mein |
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bakery-style butter cookies |
While Jeremy was snoozing away this morning, I assembled the little carrot cake (which isn’t a 7-inch cake, it’s a 6-inch cake making it even cuter than before). Miniature Sunmaid raisins box from lousy complimentary Delta Airlines Snack Pack for scale.
I was wiped out when I got home tonight and a veritable mental and emotional mess.
I didn’t feel like cooking and I was craving bad, fried take-out style foods. I flopped around on the floor with Kaweah while Jeremy tried to offer some solutions (places to go pick up some food while I took a nap). But nothing sounded good because my guilt meter was on Hysterical setting. Didn’t want to spend money, too tired to cook, and I had to prepare a whole meal to take to our friends’ house for dinner tomorrow, whine whine whine.
These situations can go one of two ways and this time I put my mental ass in gear and made Chinese Cold Noodles while Jeremy did dishes.
I’ve got chocolate chunk banana bread and sour cream coffee cake cooling in the kitchen. Sour cream makes for a moist crumb. The coffee cake is for Suzanne who turned 30 on Thursday. Alex surprised her with an issue of 30 Magazine in which he compiled articles from her friends and family. She thought it was a REAL magazine! I can’t wait to get my copy of it (Alex is providing one for everyone who contributed). Suzanne is a huge fan of baked goods (all 80 pounds of her). Because I didn’t have enough rotting banana to make the banana bread, I picked up two more at Pavilions yesterday. I asked if they had any “brown” bananas. Produce Guy explained that they compost all of their rotting produce! How cool is that?! I can’t wait to have a compost pile. The amount of trash we produce will dwindle to almost nothing after recycling and composting! I wonder if I’ll have to grow vegetables on our deck? Otherwise I’ll just be creating a buffet bar for the local fauna.
