Things I Eat

I’m afraid that the porch’s peak season has passed. I still have my breakfast out there, but it’s just too hot by the time lunch rolls around. I need heavy drapes to block out the sun — but then, that would sort of cancel out the purpose of being out there. Ah well. It’s like asparagus or rhubarb: enjoy it early and often (and stick it in the freezer for later?). Now I have the rest of my meals back at the kitchen table:

My mom made some delicious oatmeal-coconut-chocolate-chip cookies the other day, which I’ve been enjoying with my afternoon tea. I gave two of them to S, and now I’m regretting it, as my own two didn’t seem to last long enough. Okay, I don’t really regret it. But they were good.
I’m going to make that macadamia cake for the 4th of July. Except I’ll use ground almonds instead of macadamias. Mainly, it’s just a vehicle for the lime syrup — I’ve been hankering for some lime-flavoured treats. And an excuse to try out my new (thrifted for, like, sixty cents) little bundt pan. I was going to use the cake as a bribe to get people to hang out with me on the fourth, but now it seems that S won’t be as busy as he thought. Funny that his schedule freed up after I told him about the cake.
I don’t know about you, but I really have a habit of settling into food routines. I’ll have a couple of go-to meals that stay in rotation for a few weeks or a month, and then I move on to the next thing. Right now it’s salads with falafel:

This was a particularly good one, as I had left over pickled vegetables from the Holy Land buffet I got the other day. Do you know what I want to do? Pickle my broccoli stalks at the end of the summer. There were a few pieces of cauliflower stalk in the veggies from Holy Land, and I think broccoli would work well too. I should also make broccoli slaw.
I could go for some broccoli slaw right now. Mmm. I’ve got to stop posting about food at night!