How to Spend Your Day Off

1.  Have an Irish breakfast for lunch

2.  Sample a 60¢ Rocky Road cookie from C.R.E.A.M.

 2.  Ultimately stick to the classics and go Chocolate Chip, even if it is only half-baked.  Correction: especially if it is only half-baked.

3.  Buy porkchops.

4.  Make Tonkatsu at home for roomie.

5.  Make chili at home for self.

5.  Serve Hawaiian-style in a 2:1:1 starch, veg, protein ratio.

6.  And next time?  Do NOT serve with Foster's.

Dinner?

Banana smeared with peanut butter...semolina made with coconut atole and homemade soymilk...one naked frozen waffle, toasted.


Let me put it this way: when you spend three hours working on brown butter red lentils and a Mediterranean lamb stew with root vegetables - seasoning, tasting, browning, tasting, adjusting for salt, tasting, reducing, tasting - all you really yearn for at the end of the day is anything reliably comforting and un-messed-with.