A Good, Healthy Appetite. That’s what I’ve Got.

Day one of four-day weekend! Oh blifful, blifful days are these. Today I kicked things off with some laundry and some ‘net surfing. I had a long shower which didn’t have to be interrupted by the realization that I am now on a schedule where I have to catch a bus. (…then make a mad dash to get dressed, dripping water through the house and collapsing, panting, on the bed because it’s a straight uphill climb to where my clothes are. Though it turns out all those dashes were really just practice: the other day, we actually RAN FOR THE BUS. A full block. I intend to hold this as my get-out-of-exercise-free card for possibly the next 10 years.)

Then I had some rather crack-addled lunch. You go ahead and be the judge – is this crazy pregnant food or is this just creative-use-of-the-kind-of-food-I-had-in-the-house-on-a-statutory-holiday food:

Immersion d’haricot

1 can black eyed peas
1 fresh red chili pepper
1 onion
2 cloves garlic
1 tbsp tomato paste
some dribbles of olive oil
salt
1 weiner, sliced thickly.
several slices cheddar cheese

– preheat oven to 400 C
– blend 1st 7 ingredients with hand mixer until smooth.
– pour into small bread loaf pan (such as in previous post’s photo of bread loaves).
– stir in weiner slices.
– lay slices of cheese on top.
– bake uncovered for approximately 1/2 hour or until mixture begins to actually rise in pan with the excitement of it all.

Serve with tortilla chips (as a dip) or spread on whole wheat toast.

(I tried it both ways; my chips were stale so I went with the toast)

Very tasty and satisfying. Tomorrow we buy groceries. At the very least, fresh chips.

But for tonight I was searching the internet for delivery food in New Westminster. This website was quite helpful. It led me to the Royal Tandoori Restaurant which claims as its own one “Mango Butter Chicken.” Rest assured, this will be my dinner tonight. Well, assuming Saint Aardvark doesn’t feel like pizza.

Alas, there is no website for The Thirsty Duck pub at the corner of 6th ave and 12th street. But I go by every day on the bus, drawn drooling to its promise of beer and glow in the dark bowling.

Thanks, Clarke County Fair in Iowa.

The restaurant listing page also led me to The Old Bavaria Haus, where Schnitzel Wednesdays, apparently, continue! How can I have never considered schnitzel? Just look at this list of schnitzels! Oh Wednesday, you cannot come soon enough.