the menu

so i'm testing recipes
and
brussel sprouts with chestnuts
rocks so hard
it's almost thanksgiving all by itself
i was pretty happy with preliminary rice
which i made without the thick shitake core
(to save a bunch of time
and cause i wanted to try
my walnut butter and brown rice vinegar sour cream)
do not scoff
it has changed my life
i use it in creamy salad dressing
and taco salad
and now
if i want a cream of mushroom soup rice
(yes my mother liked to cook with campbell's soup)
so sue me
i still miss that chicken/rice/cream of mushroom soup thing
occasionally
but
i think the rice is overkill
especially if i'm having bread
that's double grain
unnecessary
i'm also toying with the idea
of pecan butter in the sweet potatoes
with or without the dried apricots
i won't have time to test that
but
i'm pretty sure i made it with apricots before
a really really long time ago
and my recollection is
wow that was a lot of work
and
really
marshmallows are tastier
so
i was thinking
maybe pecan butter has a more similar flavor profile
i just thought about the apricots
because i've been reading about the hunzas' diet lately

http://www.alkalizeforhealth.net/Lhunzadiet2.htm

so ideally
it would be apricot pit butter
but i can't get that except online
(i don't think)
i just keep trying to figure out something cranberry
i have this thing i eat pretty regularly:
grapefruit + shred coconut + goji berries + shred wheat
(grapefruit is one of my favorite foods has been since forever)
and, if i ever associated those fruit salad-y things with tg
i'd totally throw in cranberries and call it a day
but i never did
and double grains
and desert seems like the obvious cranberry place
since it won't go with anything
but
no no no no no no
wait
i got it
cranberry-type kir/mimosa-y things
like a champagne punch
totally
i was gonna have that
14 hands
hot to trot
washington state red blend
and i still might, too
you should really try it
it's only like $9 a bottle
and it is seriously some of the best stuff going
i don't really need pie
if i'm having pecan butter in my yams
not really
i really want biscotti
but i think i'm unlikely to start making biscotti
for the first time
on thanksgiving
and
it's not very nutrient dense
and
it takes a long time

actually i just looked it up
and it doesn't take that long
so i make it on monday
it's not nutrient dense
but it is hella lowfat
and i love to dunk it in coffee

i don't know
i think a holiday
needs a special desert