For giggles

I like to play with the foil from candies that I eat. I have been making these little boxes out of hershey kisses for years, this isn't even one of my best ones, but this time, I gave it friends. A little package from the peanut butter cup foil, which I stuffed with the foil from my dark chocolate squares and wrapped with the kiss sash. Aint they pretty? I made a little fan from the peanut butter cup to adorn them, and featured them on some miniature display items. I love them :)

Breakfast

This morning, I remade something I combined on a fabulous whim, which was excellent. I periodically roast squashes, and the occasional root vegetable, to have in my fridge for a reliable, nutritious starch. This time around, I roasted a Japanese white yam, and a very pale acorn squash. The winning combination I came up with and enjoyed for breakfast this morning is chopped fresh chives, an old school favorite, with a tamarind chutney, an even older school favorite for fried and/or starchy entrees. On a whim, I added some tindora (Indian baby gourds, which I refer to as nutritionally perfect baby cucumbers, given my Middle Eastern predilection for the green fruit). Tindora are great because the contain much less cellulose, which is fiber, but how much fiber do you need when you are eating such nutrient dense foods as chives and salad? With out further ado, observe the masterpiece that was my breakfast:

Here is a close up of the tindora. Ain't she precious?

I balanced out the breakfast with doogh (pronounced like dog, with a long vowel, and a guttural hard gh, it is a Middle Eastern fermented yogurt drink, much more watery than kefir, and naturally carbonated). However, the doogh didnt go well with the acidity of the tamarind, and so I had my protein with a wince, and saved most of it for after the acid finish of the chutney. That being said, I can't begin to describe what a delicious combination this is. It reminds me of aloo papri, a famous Indian dish I used to get all the time, truly a masterpiece of Indian standards and flavors, which is chickpea fritters, smothered in a tamarind chutney. Mine is definitely healthier, and beyond yum. A symphony, I am happy to have reworked, quite accidentally, and am happy to pass along. Enjoy!