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Monkey Monday: very tired edition 16 July 2007 11:32 pm

Posted by Tracy in : Morning Glory, baking, breakfast, cooking, friends, work , trackback

I am very tired because I have been working a lot this past week, which is why I barely managed to post Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of last week instead of every day. Based on the past seven days and the fact that I’m working every day this week except Wednesday and Friday, I predict maybe I’ll be able to pull off three posts this week as well. That’s the hope, anyway.

The reason I am working so much is that the Oregon Country Fair was this weekend, which means that Morning Glory got crowds of hippies coming in for breakfast before heading out to Fair, and today we got the post-Fair crowd (which apparently continues somewhat all week as vendors and other Fair staff slowly return to the real world or some such). Sundance used to give everybody automatic overtime for working the Monday after Fair, and would post hilarious letters briefing people about what to expect. (”You may encounter people who are still high….” and stuff like that. In the kitchen we were actually instructed not to make any food that might freak out people who were tripping. Seriously.)

In other work- and monkey-related news, today’s Morning Glory kitchen banter included a rather silly discussion of our tribal names. I suggested that I could be Smells Like Monkey, but Ben came up with an even better one: Monkey Loves Cats. Aww.

Tonight (after many hours of post-tiring-workday vegging out and finally taking a shower) I made a batch of Tracy granola and weighed all the ingredients as I went along, and determined that a full batch weighs just under 3 pounds. Next up: price all the ingredients and calculate cost per pound. Prediction: Tracy granola is awesome because it costs both time and money. I am a little scared to find out how much it costs compared to storebought granola, but I am fully prepared to justify just about any price because I have never found a storebought granola that comes anywhere close to mine for awesomeness. (Also I am secretly hoping to be pleasantly surprised if it turns out to be at all reasonably priced…. can I deduct a few dollars per pound for labor cost because I enjoy the work involved? I suppose I am both in denial and in bargaining.)

Oh! I made a new version of my Broccoli UnCheese soup for Morning Glory last week! It even improves on the kind that was so popular at Sundance because this one is not just vegan, it is also soy-free (and wheat-free and even gluten-free) so even more people can eat it (just not anybody who can’t have yeast, because there is a big boatload of nutritional yeast in it, oh yes). I am not a big fan of vegan (or vegetarian) food that attempts to imitate animal products, but I think of this soup as being sort of a drag queen version of broccoli-cheese, and somehow that makes it all kinds of fun. Did I write down the new recipe? No, but I will do my best to reconstruct it here in the not too distant future. But first I will sleep. I’m scheduled to be on at 9 tomorrow, but I’ll call in at 8 just in case they need me in earlier….