fried friday

i'm a bit burnt out today...

didn't sleep well or much last night... first time in weeks i haven't been awake before the alarm went off...

I was thinking since i'm headed out a little early to check out the "festivities" over at the Bike To Work Day expo and add one tall individual to the crowd, that maybe if I can get home soon enough that it will be a pizza night. haven't made it in a while... dinners have been reached from a new bag of tricks. Last night it was different. BUT i managed to replicate the smushed potatoes (as K calls them) that were ever so popular last time. Not your boring bland stuff, these were/are super yummy. And i nailed the carrots. friggen nailed them. So good. olive oil, shoyu sauce and some onion. clarify the onion in the oil - takes a while, but is important, can't rush the flavor development. Then toss in the carrots - coat, cook on high heat, cover for a bit till they are soft, then add a table spoon or a splash what ever looks right of the shoyu cook on moderately high heat, stirring frequently until most of the liquid has been absorbed and the shoyu coats all the carrot discs, and then stir infrequently... the smallest and thinnest discs will get blackened and will have the most amazing flavor...

so good...

oh and critical... absolutely critical... use good fresh organic carrots, peel them (save skins for making stock) and slice them. Don't use baby carrots, or non-organically grown ones. the organic ones are just way sweeter. These actually taste sweeter than the crap carrots cooked in sugar and butter, everyone's had those somewhere or another. seriously these are sweeter and have way more flavor and best of all, no added "refined" sugar to the mix. All natural goodness.

Anyway. before that was some lo mein, and I don't remember what...

tonight i think we're headed the pizza route...

if i can stay awake...

They got some loony toon to dress up in a team kit and stand around eating warm bagels with cream cheese this morning for the local fish wrap, although i dunno if you can wrap fish with online newspapers.

Well time to go be one of the sole representatives of the lycra wearing crowd amongst the (hopefully not sparse) crowd of bike commuters. With luck Il Bruce will make another appearance...

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