Brett and I just got back from the grocery store. We got some salmon pinwheels, basil, and mezze penne for dinner tomorrow night (planning a creamy pistachio pesto for the pasta). For tonight’s dinner, we got some stuff that I’m going to use to re-create a dish my mom showed me while I was in Pasco. Her version of it goes like this: Orzo, chicken, bell peppers (close to raw), snap peas, spicy Thai peanut sauce, toasted almond slivers, cilantro. It’s really good hot and even better cold, IMO. My version will replace the cilantro and snap peas with julienned cucumber, sesame seeds, mozzarella cubes, and alfalfa sprouts. Also, I’m going to toss in some of this sweet sesame dressing I found with the peanut sauce.

BTW, every notice the ridiculous markup on sesame seeds in the “ethnic foods” aisle? A tiny bottle of ‘em (~1.6 oz.) was $1.69 at Safeway. That’s like $16.90 per pound. Fifteen feet away, in the bulk dry food tubs, you can get them for $1.99 per pound. Apparently something about sticking sesame seeds in a plastic bottle makes them worth 8.5x as much.

Played online Blokus today. It’s pretty neat, but kind of buggy. (I saw someone make an illegal move in one match–placing a piece edge-to-edge with its own color–and the game actually allowed it.) Also, since there’s no karma system like in online Ticket to Ride, people tend to quit early if things aren’t going their way (which sucks tremendously if they’re in the corner opposite you). Here’s a screenshot from a game I played earlier:

We were going to attend an Arlo Guthrie concert in Seattle today, but Brett got very sick last night and travel seemed like a bad idea since we’re five hours from there. Really sucks because the tickets he bought weren’t exactly cheap and he’d been looking forward to this thing for months.

Okay, gotta go finish this orientalish orzo-chicken salad. Brett just finished boiling the pasta.

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