Picnic PITA, with a salad.

K is coming home today for another trip! So we're picnicking once I pick him up from the airport. He asked for sandwiches with mozzarella, and a green salad, and fruit. So I made a sandwich I made last year, which I like to call Pain In The Ass (PITA) Sandwich because it takes all day. It's worth it though.

I made a round loaf of spinach bread with garlic and pine nuts in it, and sliced it in half horizontally to make one huge sammy. Scooped out some of the bread from the middle to hollow it out a bit (will make bread crumbs out of the hollowed-out part for cooking with later). One half I spread with olive tapenade from Trader Joe's, and the other half with a homemade pesto (tons of fresh basil, garlic whistles, pine nuts, and olive oil with a little cheese). I sliced up a small eggplant, a zucchini, and a pattypan squash, brushed them with olive oil, and grilled them in the broiler; while they cooked, I sliced a baby Walla Walla onion from my garden and caramelized it in a little butter and olive oil. Once the veg were ready, I layered them on the sandwich with some fresh mozzarella, drizzled it with balsamic, and pressed it all together. Wrapped it in plastic and pressed it overnight to let it flatten out and let the flavors mingle. In a few minutes I'll unwrap it, slice it into six smaller sandwiches, and wrap them up. I'm also doing a salad of mixed veg with fennel and merlot lettuce from my garden and a homemade balsamic vinaigrette, and probably some hazelnuts. Dessert needs nothing fancy - fresh Bing cherries are in season, yo! So we'll just nibble on those.

Taking this little picnic to the park and enjoying the weather, and then we have to go pick out roof tiles for our new house. It still feels so weird to say that: "our new house." I don't think it'll really sink in until we close... I'm still terrified this whole thing is going to fall through.

*sheepish smile*

I left again. I suppose every year the days get longer, the rain lets up, and I get distracted from blogging. Then I want to blog but it's hard to know what to come back to after a long absence.

So, catching up, here's me lately. Started a garden and I'm growing some really delicious food. Wearing my collar a bit more and been exploring a deeper submission than I ever thought I'd be happy with - just discovered a really lovely website that reflects my happy marriage ideals at Taken In Hand. Finally went back to blonde (with teal highlights). I took a break from stripping for awhile to do some film work, but am now back to stripping on a part-time basis while I buckle down and finish these two screenplays I've been working on. One of them (I hope) will need to be finished by August.

I turn 30 in a few weeks, which is making me introspective. And I'm pretty stressed out lately because K and I are in the middle of buying a house. If all goes well we should close at the end of the month. I'm excited but also extremely nervous.

I may ask K to issue a rule that I must blog every day. I really do like maintaining this blog, I just need to stop being lazy about it.