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<\/a>After School Snack Friday – sweetened iced coffee with cream & nuts & cherry tomatoes<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>On Wednesday, I did a small private dinner – that’s what the tomato tarts were for. It was a nice group. A woman I know through work organized it – she works with instructional technology on campus. \u00a0It was her and her girlfriend, and 2 of her three grown-up sons, the oldest and the middle, who were in town, two couples, one gay, one straight, and a couple additional women who arrived solo. The age range was probably 25 – 60. Here’s the menu:<\/p>\n Tomato tarts with fresh mozzarella & herbs I put out some olives & nuts & cheese & crackers when they arrived – the same nuts I was snacking on Friday, tamari almonds & salted cashews & honey roasted peanuts. I also made a gallon of red iced tea – passion & pomegranate teas, with white grape juice.<\/p>\n Tomato tart<\/p><\/div>\n Half a Tomato tart<\/p><\/div>\n On Thursday it was Willy Street’s annual meeting and party – something like 6,000 people for dinner and the F\u00eate de Marquette<\/a>. I’m on the Board of the co-op<\/a>, and I’m running for reelection so I had to show up. I thought I was going to have to give a vote-for-me speech, but we turned out to have 14 candidates, so no time – I posted my remarks<\/a>, instead. So, even though I didn’t have to talk (after stressing about it all day), I was out in the sun for a couple of hours and I had a beer, and then I biked back over to E. Wash<\/a> – one of the private dinner party guests, the cute grown-up middle son of the woman who arranged the dinner, thought he might’ve left his cell phone – so I biked a lot and didn’t eat until 8:30 or so. I made myself the sandwich of my youth – peanut butter, mayonnaise and cheese with sweet pickles – on leftover whole wheat baguette. After I ate, I got a terrible headache – which I attributed to stress and sun – except I have the same damn headache right now, and I haven’t been exposed to any of the other factors – it’s just a humid day. Shit.<\/p>\n
\nGreen salad with balsamic vinaigrette
\nWhole wheat baguettes with butter
\nLemon chicken breasts, cold sesame noodles (made with gluten free brown rice pasta), and slow-cooked zucchini with feta
\nFlourless chocolate cake
\nDad’s day cake<\/a>
\nFresh berries & whipped cream
\nCoffee<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>