Sunday Afternoon

So I've given in (well, I suppose I was never really fighting it) and installed the Stumble-upon toolbar in Firefox. Unfortunately, I found a couple fantastic food websites so have been drooling for the past hour-and-a-half or so at multiple amazing recipes. I'd like to think I'll try them when I get home, especially with ingredients from my garden, but I may not be quite so industrious.

Here's a few of the best:
This one is what did me in. It was the photos : http://www.tastespotting.com/
From the first site, I got to this one. Definitely will hit a few of these up: http://www.norecipes.com/
And this just looked fun: Margarita Cupcakes

In terms of my culinary inventiveness lately, I made a great dish on Wednesday night. I sauteed some onions and garlic in a pan, then added spinach. Added chopped tomatoes and basil (from a can) and cooked it down. Tossed in some fusilli, et voila.
Thursday afternoon made a soup with onion, fusilli, chicken stock, and carrots. Stock cubes are my new favorite thing. Thursday night went to a barbecue over in Rahoon. Irish pork sausages on the grill are divine--had only had them cooked in a pan before.

Thursday night played halo with boys. Managed to come in 3rd out of 4. w00t. It wasn't that I got killed a lot necessarily, but the map was so huge that I just ran around on my own a lot. It was a good night.

Later addition:
Inspired by my stumbling, here's what I made for dinner:
Fried mozzarella, topped with caramelized onions, on a bed of briefly-sauteed spinach perched in tomato sauce. The sauce came from a jar, but everything else was me own. Perhaps will add pictures. I plated it rather nicely, if I do say so myself.

Vegetables

So I bought this microwave meal thing, that tastes really good, actually. It's got penne pasta, pea pods, mushrooms, peas, and broccoli romanesco, which I had never heard of before. The broccoli thing is good, but slightly disconcerting in appearance. It's a fractal vegetable, if that makes sense.



It looks less creepy in the mix, as each piece is like only one of those pointing things. Still, I'm just pretending it's real broccoli.

In any event, I'm being healthy.