breakfast; the same as yesterday; fruit salad with oats and almonds, cold brewed coffee with coconut milk and sugar in the raw.
lunch; fresh salsa.
mango.
(i recently recommended dandelion wine to deer silk friendy fellow, and in trying to tell him which copy of the book he should try to meet, i described it as looking a bit like mango skin, which today's mango shed willingly for a delicious post lunch treat.)
dinner; overly spiced quinoa (which i would've loved if i hadn't put so much salt in), crispy kale (always so good).
water; as of 8pm, at least a gallon and a quarter.
epic fail of the day; so yesterday i posted about a thing i might post about today if it worked okay. it didn't work okay, but it was such a giant disaster that i have to post about it.
i mentioned yesterday that last year, i was trying to make whipped cream using coconut milk. well, the recipe for the whipped cream never thickened up, so i threw it in the freezer. and it turned into ICE CREAM. IT WAS AWESOME. i figured i would try to recreate last year's coconut milk ice cream. but i couldn't find the recipe. so i winged it.
one can of a taste of thai coconut milk, with maple syrup and a little vanilla, left to freeze overnight.
well, i took it out this evening, and it was rock solid. so i took out my blender and got out a very large knife....
i managed to get most of it out and into the blender and started blending. decided i ought to add some berries to it. so i threw some frozen raspberries and strawberries in a mug and put them in the microwave. however...
gah. but anyway, i got the thing to blend with what hadn't spilled all over the microwave, into something like a frozen smoothie sort of thing that was very tasty.
but then when i went to clean up the bowl, i discovered this had happened when i was stabbing the frozen coconut milk.
oh well. it's not as though i don't have five other mixing bowls.
so yeah. still feeling good, but i definitely wanted to put margarine on the quinoa when it was done. i am a little disappointed that the coconut milk ice cream experiment was mostly a failure. i was looking forward to having it over some sort of warm medley of fruits. maybe i should actually try to find a coconut milk ice cream recipe that doesn't require any sort of ice cream making device. maybe. i will need to get more coconut milk probably tomorrow.
anyway, i spent most of the day at work stripping this dresser, which i am either going to paint some ridiculous color combination OR i am going to base coat it white-ish and collage over it.
ALSO. the third fanfare for the elephant six recording company is out today! i did a transatlantic cover the music tapes' majesty with my friend matt, who lives in the uk. i sang and played xylophone, and he played guitar and drummed and assembled it. i'm pleased with how it came out. there are a lot of really really really wonderful covers on this. i'm impressed. hooray, covers!
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