Let’s see if I can recreate – Monday was the I ♥ SLIS thing at Brocach – benefit for scholarships at the library school where I work. It got pushed back a little later in the day, so I didn’t go to my Dr.’s appointment after work (my dermatologist yearly full body scan that I get because I had skin cancer in 2001) and then directly to the bar. Instead, I went home, stopping at Trader Joe’s for skim milk, and of course also purchased some snacks: White cheddar popcorn, only 160 calories in two cups; chocolate covered marshmallows – also not too bad calorie wise, but deadly because the marshmallows are at that perfect hard phase, and you can’t really bite the things in two – you have to eat them whole, so you eat more; and a bar of Toblerone that I haven’t broken into yet. Once home, I ate some of the popcorn and a cup of coffee, started working on this recipe post, and then drove to the bar. I had two beers, but none of the appetizers appealed. When I got home Mark was heating up leftover pepperoni pizza, so I ate a couple of slices of that, and we indulged in a Downton Abbey two-episode splurge – we have the season three DVD, so we can speed ahead of the local public television schedule. We watched the last two episodes, stopping short of the season finale, in which we know Matthew dies.
Sad Face Beer
Tuesday, we rendezvoused at home to meet a Japanese high school exchange student who we may host this semester. And shovel snow. After she left, I made lentil and sausage soup. I used bratwurst and while I liked the taste the meat gave the soup, I found myself picking out the slices – I thought about eating them with horseradish, but just chucked them in the trash instead.
On Wednesday I had online class at 6:00 p.m. I had popcorn and tea before, and then kale and toasted cheese after. I had to login for chat office hours in my other class, so I made the enter chat sound a really loud annoying door bell, and fixed up my toast and kale, listening. Nobody showed.
Supper after class / kale with olive oil & balsamic, toasted cheese – Jarlsberg on my Thomas Keller bread
Thursday, we played slip and slide walking to work, and we had slush and heavy snow to shovel after work. My feet were wet when I got home, and it was still snowing pretty hard, so Mark & I agreed I could relax for an hour. I am re-watching Downtown Abbey season one on my computer – I wasn’t hooked during season one, so have seen those episodes the least, and we are still waiting for a converter to link the cables from my old BOSE sound system/DVD player to the new flat screen TV. So I made tea, and finished the cheesy popcorn, and watched season one, #3. I made this Food52 potato-celery root gratin (more or less, I had a bit less celery root, but used the same amount of potato, a little less cream, and sharp provolone that I already had grated for the cheese), put it the oven, and we went out to shovel. We ate it with a salad when we came in. Mark had some ice cream for dessert, but I sneaked the last of the chocolate covered marshmallows while I was doing the dishes at 10:00. To make up, I brought the last of the salad for lunch today.
