Round food for Pi Day

We had all round food, well, and almost round food, for brunch today. Pepper & egg fritatta, sweet potato quesadillas. And leftover sticky buns frozen since Christmas – they were the almost round.

And what did we eat the rest of the week?

On Monday I made turkey divan with broccoli and cheese sauce and bread crumbs on top.

On Tuesday we had turkey Ruebens (Rachels as they’re sometimes called) with oil & vinegar coleslaw and 1,000 island dressing and Swiss cheese, and potato salad made with the salty garlic dill pickles Terese gave me on the side.

Before that, on Tuesday, I got out my bike for the first time, and biked to the east side, and went on a walk with Susan and drank a purple coffee, the Ube Latte at Cafe Domestique. I should’ve take a picture – it was just this color.

I also dropped a check off at Terese’s for our just-booked stay at the Washington Island cabin in May, my consolation prize for not being able to go to Chicago for John’s birthday this week.

On Wednesday, I made cranberry apricot bread and we ate it with the navy bean soup from Saturday.

Thursday I was still trying to figure out how to use up all the turkey and realized I could make it into barbecue. We ate it on buns with the oil & vinegar coleslaw on top.

On Friday I trotted out the turkey divan again, and tried to fancy it up with  challah and a big salad with goat cheese and hardboiled eggs and cherry tomatoes. The challah broke when I un-molded it – but that meant we had a late afternoon snack of warm bread, more with dinner, and I toasted some scraps for Saturday breakfast. I tried to steam it back together, but it just didn’t work, so devouring it warm was the best plan.

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To make it feel more like a Friday, I had a glass of wine with dinner, and then another with our movie of the night, Summerland. We liked it, although the NYT called it a “cloyingly sentimental World War II drama” with “an ending so contrived it will blow your mind”.

Saturday was another bike ride, to the pandemic pre-order farmers market, for the first time this year. Later we had the turkey BBQ on top of mac & cheese for dinner, with pickled onions on top – kinda like the signature dish at Wood Shop, the barbecue joint near my brother’s in Seattle. We ate it in bowls instead of paper boats. And our movie of the night was Locked Down, which I liked a lot; Mark thought it was too play-like. Lots of cameos in bad zoom meetings, Ben Stiller, Mindy Kaling, Ben Kingsley, and of course the main characters Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor – who were looking NOT movie star glamorous, more like normal folks in pandemic, and I liked that, too.

And that brings us back to Pi Day. I made cherry pie.