Monkey Monday: in praise of awesomeness 5 April 2010 11:52 pm
Posted by Tracy in : baking,cooking,dessert,eating,meat,monkeys,not even vegetarian,photos,pictures , trackbackWhat kind of awesomeness, you ask? Well, mostly Peter’s awesomeness, because that’s what I have pictures to prove. (You’ll have to take my word for having made these super-delicious hash browns for dinner tonight, albeit with a mix of mostly Russet Burbanks in addition to the recommended Yukon Golds, since them’s were the taters we had in the house. Also I topped the potatoliciousness with poached eggs, and we had homemade hot cross buns on the side, but again: no pictures. Sorry about that.) Back to why Peter is awesome.
Despite its being almost painfully beautiful out yesterday, I forced myself down to NYU’s Bobst Library to work on the research paper for my food industrialization and processing class (due Wednesday, not that I’m avoiding it by writing this or anything). Five to eight pages on the science, technology, and social history of microwave popcorn? Yeah, I can do that, but I’d rather be playing outside. ANYWAY. I’d thawed out frozen fruit for rhubarb custard pie filling (my plan was to do the more-fruit-less-sugar variation, but I didn’t have enough rhubarb, so I added some strawberries), and made (but not baked) crust, which Peter had gotten rolled out by the time I reluctantly left for research-ville. Maybe, I hoped to myself, I could come home to pie, and then we could make those homemade gyros I’d been thinking of as our Easter lamb….
But no! When I got home, not only was the pie baked, but Peter was almost done making the gyros! So awesome! Check them out:
So awesome, my readers who are not offended by ground-up dead baby sheep from Greenmarket vendors who also sell wool and cheese so you know they love the hell out of those animals, so awesome.
Here I am, pretty much entirely high on the deliciousness:
Yeah, I can barely see straight for joy. Dignity, always dignity.
And here is dessert (okay, not yesterday’s dessert because we nommed that up way too quickly for pictures, but a more recent helping of awesome):
I made the ice cream! I helped!
Yeah, that’s a very good start to helping me get through this week. (Now I should sleep, the better to get up early and make granola for the first time in—gasp!—almost two years finish that dang paper.)
