When Lunch Meat Attacks

In front of my building, a parked car inexplicably has a round piece of semi-dried lunch meat smooshed into its driver-side window, as well as a piece under the windshield wiper. A message from an enemy? Random drive-by meating? When good meat goes bad? An affront to vegan drivers everywhere? Hell, an affront to all health-conscious drivers and passerbys everywhere?

On a less fanciful note, me and B went to the hospital around 9:30 pm, as she was feeling unusual abdominal pain and pressure. After spending 3.5 hours of being poked, prodded, tested and all sorts of labs done, we found that everything is fine, the baby looks great, and it's either indigestion and/or natural pains of a baby growing bigger inside da belly. While B napped I went across the street and had a truly mediocre veggie burger and fries, not so much out of hunger, but out of anxiety.

BREAKFAST: 7:15am, good granola with good milk, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

AM SNACK: 10:30am, handful of freshly baked apple cinnamon mini muffins, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Made another attempt, after last week's muffins came out burnt and dense and all-around not very good. This time, I went back to using whole milk instead of cream, lowered the temp of the oven from 400 to 350, pulled them when some still looked slightly wet in the middle and held off depanning them until cooled. I also scraped a couple of vanilla beans into the liquid before combining with the dry.

The muffins came out soft, tender, very appley, as I think the vanilla softened the cinnamon spiciness and allowed the apple to sing loud -- a good thing, since they were fresh mutsus bought from the farmer's market yesterday, and had no problem holding it's own. Got a bunch into the freezer before B was able to gobble them all up, for later reverie.

NOON SNACK: noon, more muffins, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 2pm, pad thai, a little bit of scone with lemon curd, water, half a chocolate cookie, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Went to Brooklyn Flea in Dumbo with B&D, picked up a fantastic piece of aged raw milk rind-washed soft cheese. We ate at Rice, then went around the corner to Jaques Torres.

DINNER: 7:15pm, momma style salad with edamer cheese, dark chocolate covered cornflakes, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER 2: 11pm, veggie burger, fries, 1.5 bowl, hunger 3/5