Eats, shoots, and reads

Am on the annual super cleansing diet, which has required me to devote much more time to cooking, although I have tried out some very tasty recipes this week: Sweet Potato and Red Bean Curry, Eggplant Kibbeh (a Lebanese baked thing with a bulgur/chickpea crust), and Celery Root Coquettes (tasty little cakes made with millet), all courtesy of our favorite cookbook, Vegan Planet. I have rediscovered the vital connection between sugary fatty foods (especially of the dairy persuasion) and mood, however. I quickly plunge into crabby must-eat-now-but-cooking-this-dish-takes-two-hours tantrums when I arrive home at 5. But it is euphoric to be freed from the decision of whether or not to partake from the latest large gift basket of Ghirardelli goods from a print vendor at work.

Reading: Monkeewrench, a fun local mystery thriller that reminds me how much I like these type of novels; Can you keep a secret? a good book with a bad title by Sophie Kinsella that closely rivals Bridget Jones in hilarity without being an shoddy imitation, Found, that fun picture book of various stuff (mostly notes and letters) people have found and mailed into the author, and Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line, a book about the marketing and running of colleges.