Chili & Waffles

The day started with a snowstorm. B stayed home and took over Edie-duties, while I made a morning appointment with the tax accountant, then a rare Edie-free trip to Wholefoods. I was a bit jealous, as it seemed of the few customers in the store, more than half had their babies with them.

The second batch of chili was vastly superior -- we boiled the beef in stock instead of browning it, added a couple of teaspoons of salt and a few glugs of molasses. Most righteous. Next time I make it I want to double the stock, boil the beef twice as long, uncovered, to reduce and strengthen the stock.

Food was central to the day, but no greenery -- it's February, there is a snowstorm -- that calls for chili and waffles, not lettuce and squash!

BREAKFAST: 10am, orange donut, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 1:30pm, instant ramen with vegetable dumplings, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
"Oriental" flavor, he he.

DINNER: 6:30pm, chili over waffles, apple crumble with chocolate ice cream, glass of dark beer, seltzer, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
My friend M came over and we cooked chili from scratch (including grinding a single piece of beef), the crumble and then the waffles. D came over, and it was a good time.