the only real meal i ate today was scrambled eggs and homefries at martino's

the opening yesterday was a great success for all involved, i think. there was a really big crowd to see all of pat's wonderful drawings, installations and videos. the food that i slaved over for hours the night before was really good and disappeared too quickly for most of our friends to try any. i'm sure there will be more opportunities in the future..



i made the pastry dough for the artichoke parmesan turnovers myself, despite my fear of baking. it was great! i used tyler's pastry blender and sieve, since i don't have my own. i was afraid they were going to be too onion-y, but i guess that flavor cooked out in the oven and they were instead infused with a really delightful lemon taste. my experimental leek-asparagus-gruyere mini quiches came out really well, too! i don't have a mini-muffin tin, so i just filled regular cups halfway. tyler's delicious cucumber tea sandwiches arrived just in time to be snatched up immediately by everyone near the table. for more photos of the event itself, check the fbook.

actually, devon cooked a really wonderful dinner for tyler and me the night before the show. she made a spinach salad with goat cheese, candied pecans and dried cherries, brown rice (on which we put butter, in memory of our childhoods), and really delicious baked tofu.


in contrast, today we shared four pieces of valentine's chocolate. after i bit into the first one and saw that it was orange-flavored, i gave it to her. we just kept biting off little bites of the already bite-sized pieces and passing them back and forth and giggling. it was kind of okay.

i've been thinking about food all day for my project but i haven't done any work at all for it. some days you're just so unproductive. i bought some star-gazer lillies and they're making this apartment smell really wonderful, even as our steamheat leaks all over the damn floor and i have to clean it up every couple hours. bleh.