More downtime

I needed this. Sitting around doing nothing that important this weekend. Some idle errands, like going to the market, sitting around the coffee shop chatting, cutting vegetables up for dinner. It is nice to be able to relax and do these things at the non-breakneck pace usually reserved for the week when work takes up 90% of the time.

What I really would like to do more is cook. I picked up a nice recipe book recently called "red hot" which, predictably, is full of spicy recipes, and have another given as a gift full of chinese cuisine. The problem with a hectic schedule is that cooking is often left out or simplified - can you say rice cooker and frozen fish fillets? Not those fish sticks, either....

I miss some of the more thorough meals I used to cook.

Maybe I need to have a dinner party some weekend. Kinda hard with two roomies, but we will see what I can put together.