when i'm not being lazy

when i'm not being lazy...i actually cook meals! like, not just putting something together for dinner. i'll actually cook things like breakfast. or lunch. even if its something simple, like a salad, i'll chop up tons of deliciousness to go with it, and make it real. its always amazing how long things can take, too. breakfast this morning? took me like, 40 minutes. because i had to cut and toast the bread, and then spread the delicious goat cheese on it, and then i had to wash all the greens and cut the tomatoes and spin the greens and make a little vinaigrette and then fry the eggs and APPARENTLY i am a granny because these things take me so long. but it is very calming, being so deliberate with food, doing prep, etc. kitchen is my happy place. and i get things like a tasty breakfast out of it too. not pictures is the very tasty smoothie i also made to go with breakfast; a treat after my gym workout this morning.

after running a bunch of errands this afternoon, and enjoying a hot chocolate at bloc 11 in out of the rain, i headed home for more relaxing kitchen time. which included...infusing oil!


i had no clue what to do with the bunch of flatleaf parsley my CSA gave me this week. and then i stumbled upon a recipe, online, for parsley and chive mashed potatoes. which involves blending parsley, chives, and olive oil, and then pressing the mix through a sieve to get the delicious oil. and i did this, with some new EVOO that i purchased at the lovely whole foods for added flavor. didnt get a ton of infused oil out of it though. hard to press the herbs enough to get all the oil out. and the recipe calls for you to just toss the herbs after that! but why would a person do that with all those lovely herbs! instead, half went into the fridge for a salad i have planned for tomorrow or monday (beets, celeriac, apple, etc. it will be exciting), and half went into the freezer for later pesto-like use. and the oil went into my cute little jar for use later this week! i might even drizzle it on roasting potatoes! we'll see! i think i need to infuse oil more often...maybe try other tasty herbs.