So, it’s been a crazy week – lots going on at work, and meetings in the evenings for community things I’m involved in. Celebrated my 4th anniversary with my guy this week, too, which was nice. We had dinner at a local Italian restaurant and had lots of delicious treats there, including some anisette at the end of dinner. I’d never had anything like it before. I relax my eating practices a bit for celebrations like that. I feel the way I eat is really good right now, so a diversion doesn’t yield the physical wallop it used to. This was one of my goals in changing my eating habits, so I celebrate my success.
In other news, you might have noticed the new “running” tab at the end of the nav bar above. I am feeding in my little baby running tumblelog, which is a record of my success, goals, and observations as I get back into running. I explain why I’m running on that page – take a gander and check back, as I hope to update it as often as I run, which is currently 4 days a week.
After WordPress, tumblr is my favorite blogging platform. It is a lot of fun and I highly recommend it. If you are currently on tumblr, feel free to follow my running tumblr from the convenience of your tumblr desktop.
Even though our celebratory dinner was delicious, my eating highlight of the week was a simple salad of baby arugula that I grew myself! The picture above is when my arugula was even smaller, but you get the idea of their appearance. They have grown so much since I took that shot! Big enough to thin the sprouts and eat the ones I pulled out. Let me tell you, this is the tastiest arugula I’ve ever had. I dressed it with a combination of olive oil, orange juice, salt and pepper. The orange juice ameliorates the spiciness in the arugula, but not enough to destroy it. It balances it out, in other words, with its inherent orangey sweetness. I loved it. I plan to keep the arugula at baby stage because I don’t care for older, tougher leaves. I look forward to eating more simple salads like this.
The cilantro and french tarragon that I mentioned earlier this week continue to do well! It’s so cheery to see them through the window on the back deck. I just hope the stray cats don’t screw with that planter. This weekend is transplant weekend for me, now that the downstairs hose and leaky valve have been fixed. The idea of carrying water up and down a long flight of stairs has kept me from moving forward with planting in the garden downstairs. My tomatoes are also getting bigger and many of them are now good candidates for transplanting.
The other big news in my life is that CSA season is approaching! In about a month I’ll start getting bags of delicious fruits, veggies and more. My hope it to report on what I receive and how I use it. Look for that!
