My mom's friend Oli kindly brought dinner for us tonight, a Panamanian fried rice dish and corn on the cob.
Yummy! I've never had Panamanian food before and this was very accessible and tasty to boot. I had two big helpings and there's still enough for another meal or two.
I seem to be doing nothing but writing about food recently, but it's been taking up a chunk of my day to shop and cook and clean up.
This morning, I went off to continue my search for pita. (And surprise, they had it at Walmart. I had just been looking for it in the wrong spot.) While I was there, I also picked up some fruit (strawberries, blueberries, cherries, kiwis, lemons and bananas), parsley, green onions, and chocolate ice cream.
Lunch was burritos made with leftover fajita fixings and the last of the avocados. After lunch, I had a chocolate sundae made with chocolate ice cream, chocolate syrup, and whipped cream. That was exhausting, so I lay down for a nap. I couldn't sleep so I watched youtube videos instead. (My new favorite channel is called Fun For Louis, a daily vlog made by a twenty-something Brit who travels around the world like he was going around the corner for a liter of milk. He has another channel called Food for Louis in which he eats things like live scorpions and road kill, but I haven't watched anything from that channel.)
In the afternoon, I got up and started to prep dinner for tomorrow. I thought it might be easy to make my own felafel--and it probably would have been if I hadn't decided to mash the garbanzos by hand. Garbanzos don't mash easy, let me tell you. I ended up using a flat bottomed juice glass to crush them and that worked pretty well. Then I added chopped parsley and green onions, some cumin, cayenne pepper, salt, pepper, and lemon juice. Now it will sit overnight in the refrigerator and we'll see tomorrow how they fry up.
So dinner tomorrow will be felafel (maybe), hummus, and cucumber-yogurt dressing on pita with tomatoes and pepperocini.
Friday we're having company, so I'm making hamburgers and another ice box pie, maybe a lemon one with strawberries this time. Doesn't that sound good?
Oh--and I forgot to mention how the studio sale went, didn't I? Dave and I led dollar-wise, though because we sell together we had about twice as much work as anyone. Still, our combined sales were such that even divided by two, we would have individually led the pack. Not that it matters; most of what we earned will be plowed right back into the deposit that we maintain at the studio that allows us to pay for clay and firing fees. We also bought several pieces from other potters, all of whom make work that I really like, but none of whom have in the past done very well at the sale. I guess their work is a bit out of the ordinary, but that's why I like it so much.
It was nice that everyone pulled together to make the sale a success. Lots of people came in to help set up and monitor the sale and those who are too shy or too busy brought refreshments to serve. (That was actually really nice to see because the woman who used to run the sale (completely voluntarily, mind you) was an ogre about forcing people to help. No one liked her enough to volunteer when she asked, so she put into place a "rule" that you could only display your work if you signed up to work a shift during the sale. She was so draconian about it she told one of the teachers--exhausted from caring for his wife who at the time was undergoing a grueling, ultimately futile round of chemotherapy--that he couldn't sell his work unless he signed up to work a shift. Anyway, the dragon lady used to lead sales-wise and, though she still a member of the studio, she hasn't participated in a studio sale since one of the more popular members outsold her.)
The next studio sale will be the Christmas sale. I expect we'll sell twice as much then as we did for our little two day summer sale.
Yay!
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