Something for you while I start pushing.

[leahbobet]

My plan for this weekend is to lock myself in my apartment and work on the line edits for Above pretty much all day. Except for Sunday, when I will lock myself in a very nice patisserie on Harbord with a bunch of my friends, the laptop, and a plate of brioche french toast with strawberries, and work on the line edits for Above all day.

So to minimize the distraction factor while I do this, I stopped off at St. Lawrence Market after work and had the spendy equivalent of that trip to the grocery store for lots of chips and pizza pockets before you settle in to cram for exams.

Since I don't plan to be about the internet much (or, well, I better not be!) and since I haven't done it in a while, here's a market haul foodporn list to tide you over until Monday:

Two (2) pomegranates;
Two (2) bags dried mango, the good kind;
One (1) bottle elderflower soda;
Dolmades;
Speck and goat cheese antipasto;
Sundried tomatoes;
Garlicky shrimp antipasto, which I'm supposed to put in fettucine, but usually I just eat out of the container nom nom nom;
Bocconcini;
Parmigiano reggiano, which I will probably use in some mushroom risotto tomorrow;
Two bags of cheese curds;
Quail and pear pate;
Aged asiago cheese;
White stilton with apricots and ginger;
Double gloucester with stilton (it was kind of a banner day at the cheese store);
Cedar-smoked salmon, a large filet thereof, some of which will be involved in my breakfast tomorrow;
A pound of wild medium scallops, which will be my dinner tonight, and maybe some will go in the risotto too;
Three (3) bags of sauerkraut and mushroom pierogies, which equals to about a million billion individual pierogies and should keep me in pierogies for a month;
A cheese crepe from the pierogie place, because I wanted a snack.

Most of this was bought with quick cooking/no cooking in mind; if I put on a loaf of bread tonight (and maybe run the dehydrator so I can have homemade dried apple rings tomorrow), I will be able to effectively snack myself through the weekend in a way that is both nutritious and awesome and does not require me to leave the desk too much.

Possible progress reports pending. Maybe. We'll see.

Comments

[wirewalking.livejournal.com]

Yay dried mango! I am currently nomming on cayenne/paprika-encrusted dried mango, which earns my full approval.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

...where is such a thing obtained? Does it have a brand name?

[wirewalking.livejournal.com]

Trader Joe's! They have a pineapple version too which is also absurdly yummy.

[haruhiko.livejournal.com]

which I'm supposed to put in fettucine, but usually I just eat out of the container nom nom nom

Hahaha I do this way too often. I see something in the store and I'm like, "Ooooooo that would be totes yummy if I put it in ________ or on top of _______ or made ______ with it..." and then it disappears because I just snack on it as is.

And omg yes GOOD dried mango is the best. I'm lucky to have a year-round/daily farmers market right here in town that dries their own fruit and their dried mango is fucking amazing. I got my mom hooked on it so I buy it in 5-lb. bags (it's a huge quantity, but way cheaper that way!) and ship it down to her.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm exactly that way with the bocconicini. None of them ever make it into a caprese salad. :D

I got my mom hooked on it so I buy it in 5-lb. bags

*dies of envy*

[barry-king.livejournal.com]

Speck and goat cheese antipasto;

? Sounds good, but what else is in it, if you don't mind my asking.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much it: a sort of stick of goat cheese with speck wrapped around it. It's a pretty nice sweet/salty mix.

[barry-king.livejournal.com]

Needs honey, I think. Just a thin drizzle.