Brian is off to a gig and Travis is with a friend, so I made dinner for one.
Dinner was:
Basmati rice
One sheet of nori seaweed, toasted
Edamame
Green salad with Aunt Teresa's house dressing (wine, olive oil, spices)
Zucchini broiled with grated parmesan and butter
A glass of Estancia chardonnay
Divine!
This is a meal that Brian would like. Travis would like the nori and rice. I loved it all.
And I read, fittingly, Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone by Jenni Ferrari-Adler, who is going to be on my show next week. I love the essays in this anthology, and I loved my meal.
For dessert, mini peanut butter cups from Trader Joe's.
What was the last meal you ate alone and did you read? If so, what was it?
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I usually eat lunch alone with a book. Most days in the courtyard of the Santa Monica Library, although after the last meal that I ordered from the cafe there, given it descending to even lower depths than they have in the past, I think that on days when I've forgotten my lunch I'll just walk the extra few blocks to eat somewhere on the promenade.
You're not eating alone if you're eating with a book :)
Yesterday for lunch I ate a fresh salad of romaine, garden tomatoes and cucumbers, blue cheese crumbles and bacon bits, topped with red wine vinagrette (which I sopped up with the heel from a loaf of crusty French bread). Joining me were the characters from "Keeping the House," a new novel by Ellen Baker.
A good time was had by all...
Zatarain's red beans and rice, romaine letuce w/caesar dressing, french bread, Bolla Valpolicella, and Conrad's Fate by Diana Wynne Jones.
Yesterday afternoon I ate a bowl of white grapes (not really a meal) while reading a Dean Koontz book. I don't know how far I'll get in this book - scary doesn't work well for me, but it was a hot summer day, the livingroom was cool, and the chair so comfy. I might do it again today.
kalamata olives, goat cheese on crusty french bread, a glass of Dobbin Lane cabernet, with companion "Pen on Fire"...
a slice of pizza and 2 large diet cokes, with Sebastian Faulks' ENGLEBY... in the greenhouse seating area (in the rain) at my favorite pizzeria. Lunch du jour.
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