Xinomavro is a Greek wine grape, similar, the web says, to bordeaux or barolo. (Can you tell we ate tonight at a Greek restaurant? Great fun!)

I’ve been reading about versions of slaw made with shredded brussels sprouts. So, I’m trying it tonight. Still trying to figure out the dressing part, but I’ve completed the shredding!

Recipe; check.

Mint; check.

Lime; check.

Ice; check.

RUM!

Yeah, you guessed it; we celebrated Cinco de Mayo plus 24 hours….

Special Friday meal: chili. Non-standard chili. Smoky and pretty warm but not overwhelmingly hot. Mmmm.

Classy way to welcome the end of the week? (Standard work-week, that is….)

We call this German prosecco. It’s bubbly. It’s from Germany. And made from Italian grapes. Therefore, EU vino special? Ehhhh, German prosecco has a better ring.

For a while, this much pie was left. The second round remedied that.

Food experiment #214589932. New frozen side from TJs, labeled “Creamy Polenta.”

Strangely, the polenta parts were frozen…squeeze-blips. Fortunately, when thawed according to directions—pretty tasty. And the expected gloppy texture.

Really, my life has more diversity than today’s photo collection would imply.

What you can’t tell is that it has pancake photos from this morning (texture is better with whole eggs than just whites, I learned), and, as you can see, bubbles from the pasta boiling-pot from tonight.

Still, I concluded the bubbles have more…pizzaz.

Upon consideration, the rest of the day really doesn’t merit photos. (Whew.)

Shopping at WF for The Guru’s special dinner today, the seafood guy GAVE me the shrimp—what a kind gift! More sacred food!

…starting to process paperwork and take care of business. Today, that meant a trip downtown. I remember visiting the downtown business district only rarely. Today we lunched in a place I’d never have been in my youth, the legendary Kewpee Hamburg (sometimes Hamburgers, sometimes Kewpee’s). Mmmm…onion rings.

The promised frost did hit our piece of the planet earth in the wee hours, and I’ll be having translucent asparagus with lunch, since I didn’t get them picked yesterday. The color was just gorgeous as the sun shone through the stem. Little guys, like the one on the right, and pencil-thin specimens, like the one on the left, made it through okay.