A Thing-A-Week Part 26: Sushi

Saturday I went to get groceries and also stopped at Brennan's and got a bunch of produce. I was feeling adventurous and wanted to try making sushi. They aren't very pretty but it was a first attempt. These are avocado and cucumber.

Also with my produce selection I chopped up and roasted some veggies and made some baked chicken for lunches this week. And, on my health kick, I packaged up some snacks for myself to help with portion control which is one of my biggest problems.

One of the things I like about Brennan's is that they have samples. I had what I thought was a mango while at the store. I thought I didn't like mangoes but this was wonderful. It was sort of creamy like coconut and fruity like peaches and pineapple. So I bought one. I wasn't really sure I picked up the right one as there seemed to be two different fruits labeled the same thing and I think I grabbed the wrong one. *sigh* It was not yummy. I didn't get yummy fruit.

Um....A thing...

So I finally decided my desire for socks out weighed my fear of actually making them. So I cast off my practice tube and ended up with a wrist band of sorts.

A Thing-A-Week Part 25: Happy Muffins

Cherry Muffins
Since my class ended up not doing the redaction, I had some leftover cherries to use up. I didn't want to make the cherry pudding again as it is really more than the 2 of us can eat. I had limited supply of a lot of the usual baking ingredients. Muffins seemed like a good solution. I hunted online for a fruit muffin recipe that would maximize the amount of cherries I could use up while not stretching my ingredients on hand.

These turned out really well. Not too sweet. I added some vanilla and some of the dried fruit zest I had and I ended up using almost all the cherries.