Cooking is fun. Fresh foods are also fun. My dinner this evening was fresh green beans, raw, which I shared with Lara. I had mine with flour tortillas and green tea. You see, Saturday mornings, there is a produce fair outside my workplace. Today, I walked the whole thirty steps it took to get to the vegetable stand, and I bought some organic produce. Green beans, roma tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes (bred for flavor rather than appearance, and so not genetically altered), avacadoes, a red and a yellow bell pepper, and an eggplant. The eggplant will be an experiment to see what I can do with it. The bell peppers for snacks. The avacados and tomatoes have become (as of ten minutes ago) a salsa. Unfortunately, when you puree red and yellow tomatoes with green avacado, you get a brown mixture. I have diced tomato and avacado in there as well, so it looks like salsa not brown paste, but it's still not the most attractive salsa in the world. But it Does taste really good! I can't wait to experiment with it. Perhaps over pasta...? I'd have to buy pasta. Maybe I'll make a rice dish and see what I can do with that... perhaps sautée some onion and bell pepper, then cook the rice with them, and put the salsa on top? [giggles] It will be fun. Wish me luck with the eggplant. I don't know what I'm going to attempt yet. I'm not really in the mood to think about it though. I laid my bike on the street this evening, because I was on the phone, and trying to shift gears on the other side of the handlebars, and I just went down. I managed to jump off and over my handlebars, but I still hit my leg and bruised the shin. I wasn't going fast. [grins] Also, it probably didn't help that I had a couple drinks with my coworkers. A round of jueger, and then a shot of 1800. I drank water, but I drink so infrequently nowadays that it buzzed my instantly. [laughs] Anyway, I need to sleep. The salsa is safely in the fridge, my purée wand worked well but not as well as I had hoped on the solid chunks of tomato, and I have a fat smile on my face. Good night, blogger. Oh, and wish Lara luck on her homework. She's stressed, since it's finals week for her, despite that she's having trouble thinking of it like finals week. Next friday night, we will be in Atlanta, hopefully dancing.