six months sure go by in a hurry when you are not working hard.

I have interesting philosophical commentary on any number of things, but for now I will spare the Internets in the interest of discussing the best food in the world: anything that is in season in late july/august.

I was visiting my parents in chicago most of the summer where eating was not bad. I was a slug in general, and enjoyed stuffing myself with my mother's good food and sitting on my butt reading novels. It was great, for I am good at relaxing. There were a few days I admit I only ate bagels, ok so like a week, but there were special circumstances mandating such absurd behavior, namely there was family in town and bagels are delicious (rye bagels with veggie cream cheese, tomatoes and onions... oh goodness.) Anyway. Most days my mom made me scrambled eggs and morningstar farms breakfast patties. Those are practically their own food group in that house, but I am in general too cheap to buy them myself. I must say it was nice to eat on someone else's budget for a while. I also am not sure about that as a healthy meal, but its the way it is. One thing I did well with healthy eating (albeit less well on the local organic thing, but I wasn't shopping) was to eat a lot of fruit. There was always fruit around and cut up, so it was so easy, and so good. Watermelon, berries, and my favorite fruit pineapple. I swear I would do just about anything for ripe pineapple.

Vast amount of iced tea were consumed this summer, although by the end I cut down on caffeine a huge amount. It has snuck up again since being home, but still under control.

There was nothing from the garden while I was there, it was cool and rainy most of the time so the tomatoes are only ripening now after they had a spot of heat. sad face. (I might have a garden next year!!! TBD)

So Mr. "go play in europe all summer" and I got safely back a couple of weeks ago (well except when the airline lost my wheelchair, but that is another story altogether...), and it has been nice.
We have tried really hard to limit eating out and because of that have got ourselves in the habit of cooking and eating well. Now mind you this had less to do with health and more to do with no income until september, but it was a really good thing for us to get the habit down right off the bat. We have been going to the awesome farmer's market here and eating good seasonal produce. So good! Sandwiches have played a role, and Boca soy chicken fills up hungry boyfriends better than salad does, but there has been salad of all sorts.

And that is where we are now. I am going to put up recipes for some of the stuff after this. I had been writing on facebook some of the cool meals, but duh, i have a food blog...