Anna Meal

– This dinner of Jen’s made me want some kale today, which is appropriate, since kale-based meals are apparently what I’m known for. Maybe it’s my German blood, but I do love the brassica family. I roasted cauliflower, and it took will power not to eat the entire thing straight from the pan afterwards. I added some of it to my kale (and peas from the garden) and had it with the rest of the tofu I made the other day. Also, what’s up with champagne mangoes? It’s like a candy manufacturer’s version of the fruit, except for real.
– I was updating some of the mosaics for my flickr collections, and one of the random arrangements it came up with placed this photo of Booty and Beany on the porch chair next to this photo of Beany and Birdy on the porch chair. They were taken a little over a year apart, and the second is from almost exactly a year ago. Thank goodness there’s been no further pet turn-over since then.
– I started watching ‘The Office’ (the American version) a couple of years ago (during season five, I think), and even though I liked it enough to keep watching, I never bothered to go back and see the first several seasons. Well, I made doing so a summer project and finished it up recently. I was struck the other day that, given Michael Scott’s personality, there’s no way he wouldn’t have been trying to joke around with the cameramen the entire time (it’s shot documentary style). I’m glad he didn’t, of course, but I thought it was funny that the character managed to ‘play by the rules’ in that one way.