Frog and Goat

On Thanksgiving we took the MIL to her brother’s for dinner. I sat next to the better-half’s aunt who said, “I don’t like stuffing”. I gave her the WTF face. I thought she just didn’t serve stuffing for dinner because she considered the potatoes and dinner rolls to be enough carbohydrates. These people are good hosts but their food tends to be bland and unimaginative.

Bland and unimaginative are all fine and dandy, but no stuffing for Thanksgiving is a sacrilege.

Last night I made a batch and can’t wait for leftovers. I used weirdo 9-Grain bread so you don’t have to go with white bread. Next time, I’m going to try it with a mix of white bread and cornbread. I have to tell you that cooking bacon and then adding sage into the mix makes your house smell so good that you’ll want to walk outside just so you can come back in to take a big sniff (true story).

The work team, all four of us, went out for lunch today. Our boss is out of town, we’ve been handling a boat-load of work for the last month AND we just found out about a reorganization involving us. It.Was.Time.To.Get.The.Hell.Out.Of.The.Office.

We went to Pasture and it took way too long (there were a ton of conference attendees in the area), but none of us seemed to care. We were just happy to actually leave the building in the middle of the day. We have hopes that as we move into a new business unit that we’ll get to do this more often.

On the way back to the car, we passed this and I had to take a picture:

Only one of my co-workers saw what I was doing and I’m putting on my thinking cap about how to use the creepy kids image at work.

I suppose we could have figured out a way to do this thing when we lived out in the sticks, but I bet you hard currency that it would not have been all that easy. The new thing? Picking up fresh produce from the school down the street. What am I talking about? I’m talking about Relay Foods. We’ve only participated once, but I’m hooked.

When we ordered the produce starter, we only had a vague idea of what would be included. The only groaner is we now have another acorn squash to deal with. I think our compost plant gave us 5 squash and now we have another one. I made a delicious soup with three of them, but the better-half is not a super fan of winter squash. I’ll have to get crafty to figure out what to do with it.

We also received a cooking pumpkin. I’m not a huge fan of pumpkin pie so I’ll have to think of something more creative than that.

I’m excited to try a cheese I’ve never heard of from a state dairy. We also have a container of homemade Greek grape leaves. Oh yeah!

Other good things about city life? Walking to brunch and dinner.