I haven't posted in 10 days. What the heck have I been doing? It seems that my focus got kind of blurred. It's like trying to read with one eye. It works for a while and then things are hard to see.
The weekend of the fouth of July kind of got awaty from me. I ran in the Fireball Moonlight 5K and got beat by my training partner. That has never happened before and it generated quite a bit of corespondence among peers in my running group. I wrote a few e-mails and had to post to the local track club message board. The message board was a hoot it seems that not everyone thought that the race was run up to the standards of years past and it generated an insane number of posts and readers. I had to put my 2 cents worth. It seems as though I raised the ire of some members and had support from others. Anonymous posting gives one the ability to practice a few styles that, unless you are writing a novel in the third person you wouldn't really want to have hanging around your blog.
I am trying to find a job and it takes a few hours each day searching and responding on line. I also want to write food blogs and fitness blogs. It is just hard for me to get motivated. I have written the same piece in my mind about ten times. Or at least thats the way it seems. Procrastinate.. and just do it. I don't want to fail and that always makes it hard to start. Being judged is always hard for anyone.
I made some sushi the other day and created a new dish-new to me any way. I made nigiri sushi with roasted veggies on top. The best one was the roasted baby peppers turned insideout over the rice. I almost looked like a fish. Of course I also made California rolls for my wife. I used a new tool to cut the veggies. The carrots and cucumber were painless with my new julienne peeler. I usually use a mandolin or hand cut the thin slices.
I crashed my bike on the bike trail the other day . I was just getting it a little too hard in the part where it twists and turns next to the creek. Th asphalt was kind of green and down I went. I rode it out on my hip and the palm of my glove. I skinned my elbow and got a raspberry on my hip. It didn't mess up my bike or tear my shorts. I'm lucky. Lamar was right behind me and managed to get around me without riding up my back. He said I just disappeared and all he could hear was "oh @#$%!, oh @#$%!,oh @#$%!". We finished the ride , ten more miles.
I'm working on a bike to ride to the grocery store without cleat pedals. I almost have it together. It just needs tires and racks. The tires are in the shed and I'm in here writing.
I was watching the today show and the focus was sweet corn. I was invited to a team bbq last week. I am on a running team here in K'town. Anyways I was trying to take a dish so my vegetarian wife could enjoy without being sketchy about the sometimes scary ingredients of anonymous potato salad. I had consulted quite a few recipes to find a new way to serve sweet corn in the husk. I settled on a thyme roasted ear. Thats where I fell off the wagon. It just wasn't enough. I took the ears and peeled them back and removed the silks. Next I took the thyme from my garden which is a hybrid not exactly regular thyme. I had a wonderful selection of thyme in my herb garden the first three or four years after I planted it. I had french, english and lemon thyme all in its own little spot. Then the bees changed all that. It seems that they cross pollinated all of it I have some quite exquisitely tasting lemon thyme. It has blooms that are all different but it all has a wonderful lemony flavor. Back to the corn. I chopped the thyme fine and added fresh chopped garlic, sea salt, fresh ground pepper, and olive oil. I mixed it all in a bowl with a rubber spatula and the smeared it on an ear rewrapped it in the hush and foil. Next I put it on the top shelf of my grill and let it cook on low for about 20 minutes. It was a joy to serve. Since the silks were gone all I had to do was grasp the corn by the stem break it off and presto change-o I had a husked ear with an amazing aroma and obvious thyme smeared in the top. All that was left is place it on the plate and eat 'em uip.
Like I don't have enough things in my life to do. Now I'm going to start a blog. I have a myspace, a flickr, and now a blog. I do the photos for my wife's blog, she takes them I post them- sometimes and now I want to do one for myself. I want to write a food blog on a different site and I guess I need to show some creds to my editors. I write about food in my work but, it is a little different when you write recipes, menus, and calculate food cost. I feel creative when I invent new food items for a menu. I feel great when I combine ingredients in my home kitchen and make food that I have never tasted or heard about. I like to experiment and I'm glad my wife will try the new stuff. She says that I get it right more times than not. My greatest supporter.
In pursuit, chasing, seeking, searching, looking, going, wanting, doing, making, ....
more pusuit later
I want it. I will be return.
