day 3

FRUITS AND VEGGIES

Refreshing green juice aka spinach orange and peach blended and pressed through a strainer - it was quite an affair.  Well, I should confess I made this a week ago, but had the process of squeezing out all the juice not taken so damn long, I would've made a cup for breakfast (so went with five slices of watermelon instead - watermelon juice = best anyways).

Dinner was two large portobellos pressed mercilessly on the panini press until charred yet still juicy.  Sprinkled with S&P&redpeppaflakes over "caramelized" onions (reduced onion slices in about a centimeter or so of water with some shaoxin cooking wine, a touch of soy sauce, spices, and dried raisins/pineapples to impart sweetness without feeling guilty about adding brown sugar).  What I would've given to smother this in sauce, any sauce, and sandwich it between ciabatta slices with cheese, any cheese... oh god.

Dessert was roasted peaches and apricots with Thai basil (because I possessed no mint), vanilla, and lots of five spice powder.  Mm mm roasty toasty mushy fragrant sweetness.  Would have been better with butter (how do you vegans live like this?)

 So I think today went pretty well...
okay, minus the truffle I accepted from my postdoc (what?  she had a little pink box of German Lindt truffles... it was just staring at me as I copied pictures onto powerpoints at her desk...)