An all-around tasty day

I have just tasted my first zinger, and wow, it is so good. It's as childishly sweet as I remember but the homemade elements give it just enough seriousness to make it a real dessert. It is abundantly clear that I cannot, however, eat 16 more of these, so if you're local, raise your hand so I can share! The children and I had a seriously rough afternoon, and I have spent the afternoon musing over the pain of feeling disappointed. It sucks, plain and simple. In any case, it seemed a good dinner would help things, so I made a mozzarella/tomato/basil chopped salad, roasted some potatoes from Sunday's farmers market, grilled some chicken and made a rhubarb/bay leaf/juniper berry/balsamic sauce to go with it. It was all so simple and good, flavorful in elemental rather than overwrought ways. Here's to your own good dinner and to a smoother tomorrow.

Oh wow! Quiz!

A little morning quiz to get your brain a'churning... Looking at this photo, who can tell me what I'm going to make today?

#childhoodsnackmemory

Also, do you know what I did this morning, with an enormous, somewhat uncharacteristic, degree of spontaneity? I bought train tickets to and from NYC for a Saturday matinee of Lucky Guy. Yes, the Nora Ephron play on Broadway now, starring Tom Hanks, and closing next week. T will stay with the boys while I have a day in The City. Waaa!! So exciting!!

Monday musings

A walk with Percy, a pedicure with a friend (extremely necessary for my feet as the once-lovely gold I had painted on my nails had faded to some terrifyingly fungus'y-looking hue; bleck!), time spent making dinner for the grands (you really must try Donna's Summer Beef Salad, in entrees, as it's both incredibly easy and preposterously tasty), to camp to pick up my boys, time spent writing, time spent cross-wording, an exceedingly bland dinner for one (hubs is at Rolling Stones concert), gratitude for having seen the Stones twenty years ago so that I have no guilt or envy about not seeing them tonight, excitement over the birthday cake I will make for J's party this weekend (tiered! black sugar glitter! Luke and Darth battling with light sabers!), the realization that I still have not done my Italian homework. Ah, summertime.