Day Three...and Counting

So far so good. Day two was leftover baba ghanouj and dolmathes from Easa. So that was easy...and delicious. And to make it even easier, I took my dog to the dog park for a couple of hours and felt completely relaxed.

Day three wasn't hard either. I ended up hiking the 4 mile cross-country trail at the park near my apartment, something I've started doing a lot lately. The weather was gorgeous and when I finished the trail, I lay in the grass by the lake for about a half hour just enjoying the gorgeous spring weather (which seems too good to be true, by the way). But when I got home, I was hungry and was pondering what to eat. I still have some meat in my freezer. This may be a big mistake. But I loathe to throw good food away. So I'm keeping it until I can give it away (or until I give up).

I had taken to making steak alfredo over the last few months. I made it one time as a quick meal for a friend, usually using chicken but only having some steak in the house that needed to be used up. This is when I realized that steak and alfredo sauce was actually a pretty awesome combination. And last night, I was seriously considered taking that steak out of the freezer, slicing it up, marinating it, and cooking it into an alfredo sauce to lather over some penne pasta.

But I didn't. Instead, I put some olive oil in a frying pan, chopped up some onions and threw them in, sliced up some baby portobella mushrooms, and chopped some asparagus tips into one inch sections, diced a clove of garlic, added a dash of dried red pepper, threw in some alfredo sauce and layered that over penne pasta. To be honest, I didn't miss the meat at all. In fact, it was actually better without the meat since the flavors were a little less muddy.

For today, I'm planning to try Alton Brown's leek potato soup recipe. I love leek potato soup but have yet to find a recipe that rivals the flavor of the versions I had in Dublin and Killarney. But I have yet to try an Alton Brown recipe that I didn't like. Wish me luck!