(Happy Day 23)
it's a trend. This time a banh mi and rice soup from the Monkey Bridge in Ballard.
I dropped off with the Happy Day-ing for the last week and a half on Instagram, and obviously I haven't caught up here either. Not that there hasn't been subject matter, just no time to acknowledge it in any formal way. Which is kind of a bummer. I am ready for a slower pace for the next two months or so before it's all little one all the time!
Happy Day 22
Smitten Kitchen's double chocolate banana bread. I had one aged banana and I wanted to make this so badly that I bought and prematurely aged another couple. Definitely worth making new bananas old and then some. I used whole wheat pastry flour to cram a little more "good" in the too good to be true.
Happy Day 21 (Blog Happy Days catch up still in progress, real-time (more or less) Happy Days happening over on Instagram.
I desperately miss Northstar Café in Columbus. In fact I really, really miss the entire Columbus, Ohio food scene. And yes, I'm still currently living in Seattle, Washington.
A few weeks ago I was craving pretty much anything from Northstar's menu so badly that I decided to try to recreate their Sweet Basil Burrito (rotisserie chicken, roasted red pepper and onion, brown rice, less the romaine with sweet basil sauce) cross-pollinated with their Chicken Avocado Sandwich (add avocado), but deconstructed (no tortilla or bun). Nailed it, thanks entirely to the sweet basil sauce I concocted (basil, almonds, parmesan, olive oil, greek yogurt, salt, honey). So I made it again the next week. And guess what's on the menu for tomorrow. Happy, healthy food. Maybe I'll get ambitious and shoot for the Veggie Burger next.
Happy Day 20
A couple of weeks ago I was back doing more monitoring of utility work at the old farmstead turned park. It was a beautiful sunny morning and I've gotta admit I love sniffing fresh country air. In fact I didn't realize how much I missed it till I was surrounded by it again.
At one point these girls, on their way from one field to another via the creek, and I took time out of our mornings to acknowledge each other existed.
Happy Day 19
I've been trying to convince Greg for 10 years that we deserve to celebrate Mum's and Dad's Days since becoming parents to one then another species of lovely, furry child. But he's never really bought it, despite the fact that I think I actually did give him a card or two over the years. But this year the burgeoning baby belly convinced him to celebrate and so we dubbed usual weekend brunch at our favorite, Fiddlehead here in West Sea, Mother's Day Brunch. And purportedly I have a gift of some sort coming. :)
