Summer Tastes Good

Dinner on Monday was sort of off the cuff. I didn't have a recipe in mind and since I didn't go to the farmers market on Saturday, we were seriously low on vegetables. So, I walked over to the grocery store and just meandered through the produce section to see what was in season. I'm extremely excited that the first crop of corn is showing up. And it's so cheap! I got four ears last night for under $2. For dinner, we had whole wheat pasta with collards, andouille sausage, and mushrooms tossed with a simple fresh tomato sauce. On the side, Jesse threw together a bean salad with tomatoes, garlic, red onion, the fresh corn, and a dijon vinaigrette. Summer at it's best!

Tuesday morning, we finished off the remaining blueberries and peaches over blueberry pancakes with a little maple syrup. I made Jesse to promise to wake me up just before his 7am conference call (and just after making coffee of course) so I could prep the batter and slice the fruit. We made a pact to go out running in the late morning, so I decided we needed a good hearty breakfast as fuel. I wasn't terribly excited when 6:50am rolled around, but I'm glad now that I managed to get out of bed.

Today I am off to run errands, practice German, and do more research on our trip in September. Now that we have a hotel for our first two nights in Brussels, I feel that planning will be a lot more fun. Also, I'm anxiously awaiting my textbook's arrival for the class that I start in just a couple of weeks. I'm contemplating reading ahead to get a start on my coursework. We'll see if that actually happens, but since the class is only four weeks, I have a feeling things will be very intense on Monday through Thursday. If I can get ahead a little of the reading from the start, I think it will be a lot more manageable.