Today has been a slightly strange day, mainly because I was so tired right in the middle of it. I went to the gym in the morning, as I usually do during the week, but today's run just wiped me out, for some reason. It wasn't even particularly difficult. I came home, ate lunch, sat down to proofread, and then I just crashed.
I dozed for a bit (after making some progress on the proofing front, but eventually I just couldn't keep my eyes open) and then had my afternoon snack. This was one of my reject cookies, since the cat wound up looking like a cat-giraffe mutant. It still tasted like a delicious cookie, thank goodness. After I ate that, I blended up a big glass of juice (chopped pear, spinach, apple juice, and ice -- yum!) and tried to get back into my productive groove, but I just kept thinking about tofu instead.
I've been putting off buying tofu, because once you know that it's super cheap at the Asian supermarket, it's pretty hard to justify buying it elsewhere. So I made a late-afternoon run to Sun Foods for the precious bean curd and a few other essentials... most of which I forgot to buy (I still can't remember one of the things I know I forgot).
But I DID get a big bag of baby bananas and a bag of bruised apples for 99 cents each. I love the discount produce. A lot of it is scary, but there are usually a few good finds to be had (the best grapefruits I've ever had have been from discount sections at two different stores). I peeled all the teeny bananas when I got home, broke them in half, and put them in a plastic bag in the freezer. Three pounds of bananas for making smoothies!
And I peeled and chopped the apples and made them into apple sauce. I didn't add anything (I put a bit of water in the pan to start with, so the apples wouldn't burn as they started to cook, but I drained it off as they started to soften); I just occasionally stirred and mashed them up with a potato masher, and then I pureed them in the blender when they were done cooking. When I got applesauce in Germany this last time, I couldn't quite put my finger on why the texture was so different, since the only ingredient was apples. But after pureeing my sauce, I realized that's what it was. It makes it so much smoother, and I think air gets worked in, which really changes the mouth-feel. (I usually just mash up the cooked apples and leave the sauce a little bit chunky.) Anyway, I got an entire jar's worth of apple sauce out of my 99 cent apples.
Hooray for fruit that nobody else wants!
I love the cookie!! :D Too cute.. and he looks like a cat! I wish I had one :P