hey, this is one of those day-in-the-life posts!

I'll level will you guys - I am not a friday go-er out-er. I dunno, just doesn't happen! Mind you, mondays and wednesdays and the occasional sat. will find me sloshed or at least pretending to be witty since that's when my favourite people have their days off work. But yeah, that's why I'm posting about beans on a friday night, for the record, no I'm not self-conscious about it!! (ha ha, maybe). I usually make a special dinner and I watch a movie or read experimental lit, drink insane amounts of tea.... post on my blog. The usual stuff. Listen to the hotspot greek restaurant next to my building entertain scads and hordes of polished, smoking merry people peruse their fish and block traffic whilst wearing crazy things like high heels and 3-piece suits. Which is legitimately entertaining, and I'll probably miss the noise real bad when I move. I also avoid doing schoolwork and awkwardly segue into botany with no warning at all....

My tomato sprouts grewed! This is so so so revolutionary since every plant I've ever had has died a horrible shrivelled death, and I've harboured fantasies of a fire escape garden since the day I got one. A fire escape, that is. It's gonna rule so bad! I love these guys and I've added them to the morning routine, getting water right after Satchmo-cat does. I know they're a little crowded, but I'm gonna wait for some 'true' leaves before I try to transplant them. Whatever 'true' leaves are. I read that somewhere. Anyway, I love my sprouts, they're so awesome. They're gonna have radish, green bean, spinach, carrot and parsnip friends, too, and there are some herb seeds next to the radiator just waiting to unfurl their fineness and be all like, "hello! I'm fragrant! yay!"

Oh boy, I'm a nerd. XD

Lunchtime, and there was some crazy voodoo going on with this soup, by the way. I've made black bean soup before (okay, it's been a while), and maybe it was because this time I saved every last drop of luscious bean-gravy that I could - I used half home-cooked beans that I had in the fridge already (plus liquid), and half canned stuff (plus liquid!) but the velvet awesome that this became... hoboy. I just shovelled and felt loved from the inside by thousands of thick happy beans. Does that sound weird? Oh V-con, the things you make me think....

I don't really want to wonder why this happened. Is it natural? Is it hormones? Are a secret race of frankenberries (hey, wait a second...) gonna rise up out of their plastic boxes and start absorbing nearby fruit around to become MEGABERRIES??????

Only my generous grocer will know, I guess. He was selling these for 80 cents a lb. I know! SO making a pie, maybe kittee's pie, which I've wanted for my ownsome since I saw it last summer. (either that or just buy box upon box of strawberries and eat them like it's going out of style, which is pretty much what I've been doing)

And this is an old photo, but to be fair I did finish these tonight so I guess it belongs in a post about friday eatings, right? Yeah, so leftover pickle juice... if you boil cut up vegetables in it until they're tender and then drop everything back in the jar you get badass custom pickles. Which I eat slathered in harissa, it's like reaching in the fridge for a stick of dynamite. :D

And super healthy soup for lunch requires some balance, ne? I had apples to use up. I like crisp (actually of all desserts this IS my youth). So I made crisp for dinner. I tried to not use so much sugar, but the candied ginger really wanted to join the party, and if I was making this for company I probably would have tripled the amount it was so good in there. The apples could have been tarter, but hey, that's what I had, and I don't think the mushy Macs had ever received better treatment than being baked up with almonds and cinnamon and looooove, nope.

*cue the greeks shouting opa! from downstairs*

Yay friday. XD