I gotta give C credit; it was her idea to photograph this half-peeled pineapple (Ananas comosus) with the coalesced berries exposed.

We topped yesterday’s pimiento cheese (recipe now posted) by stopping at Sublime Doughnuts, over by Georgia Tech, this morning. As JCB noted, our doughnut treats (A-Town mocha for him; cinnamon roll for me) gave us the sugar rush that got us through a quick run at IKEA. We managed to avoid the “plastic crap” that often hops in your bag there, and got…other kinds of consumer product. Yeah, that sounds better….

This cries out for a recipe, and I promise, it’ll be forthcoming. For now, know that my (very small, statistically speaking) testing group preferred the smoked-hot-paprika-enhanced-version of pimiento cheese (of the two that I offered).

With a cloud layer coming in and a breeze kicking up off and on, I still managed to wear shorts and not get cold when I toured the park.

We focused our Friday Night menu on the vacuum-packaged pot roast from TJs (really delish), with the rest of the dishes assembled by us. Accompanied by broc/cauli combo, a nice tossed salad with radishes, white taters (boiled, steamy-hot). Oh, yum.

Meal leavened by Jon Stewart and John Hodgman, tivoed (essentially, but without Tivo) from…was it yesterday?

In which…

…I discover during a visit to a nearby clinic (accompanying a friend with a hurt–not broken—ankle who could not drive) that they take walk-ins in the morning and make appointments for the afternoon.

…I make an edamame dip pretty much following the recipe (NYT from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/dining/edamame-dip-with-red-onion-and-sesame-oil-recipe.html) when I should have followed my instincts and adjusted the ingredients. (As in: boil edamame about 6 minutes, drain and stop cooking with ice water; less onion, maybe lime instead of lemon, that kind of thing…).

(For starters.)

And we got a bottle of Planeta La Segreta (a white) at this liquor store (aka Ansley Wine) that I’d never had before and it was…um-um-good. Planeta is a major winery in Sicily…that we did not visit while we were there last May. Should we plan on another Sicily trip that includes winery visits? Hmm-hmm???

This statue is standing on a cube labeled Jack Daniel. I’m not sure what the rainbow mustache means.

UPDATE: chili essay related to yesterday’s chili (and today’s leftovers) added to Food Fun as a wordy recipe….

It really wasn’t chilly today (a tad over 50°F when I went for grocs), but it was rainy and I deemed it a chili day. Even before I saw another pot of my chili (resurrected from a Guru archive) over on nancynall.com.

I’m not sure why a pineapple. Except maybe that they’re not native to anyplace I’ve set foot (they’re from South America, according to WikiPee—and I did not recall even that).

Carol, the wonderous baker, made her superb muffins today—buttermilk, flax, walnuts, oat bran, and a huge variety of other nutritious ingredients lovingly blended to create the tastiest moooofins.