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Sunday, March 21, 2004

Orange Breakfast Loaf

1 cup water

1 tsp salt

1/3 cup orange juice

2 TB oil

2 TB sugar

1 cup oats

1 cup whole wheat flour

2 cups all purpose flour

1 tsp grated orange peel

½ cup dried cranberries

2 tsp active dry yeast

Place all ingredients in the bread machine pan in order given.

Program basic or white cycle and desired crust setting; press start.

Remove baked bread from pan; cool.

Makes 1 ea 1-1/2 pound loaf.

I don't usually bake the bread in the bread machine, so I made two small loaves this morning and Steve and I ate one for breakfast. Warm out of the oven. With butter (margarine, really). And with peanut butter and homemade strawberry jam. Absolute heaven.

Dinner:   Dinner at Bocaccinis - my last Birthday 2004 event. I guess I've milked this birthday for about all it's worth. Steve's mom, Wilma, took us out for dinner. Us = me, Steve, Simon, Lizz and DJ. I had my favorite dish, Fusilli, which is pasta with chicken, artichoke hearts and asparagus, coated with garlicky olive oil and Parmesan cheese. Steve and I split the chocolate torte for dessert. It's good, but I've had better. But I couldn't disappoint Steve, you know.

Reading:   Girl Clown, by the lovely and talented Mary Wise. I'm really enjoying this - in fact, I can't wait to go to bed 30 minutes early every night to make sure I have time to read. I know I especially like it because I "know" Mary. And I believe every word of this, even though her disclaimer says otherwise. (Hi Mary!)

Listening to in the car:  Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser. This book gets talked about a lot on the Simple Living Discussion Forums so I thought I'd give it a try. I'm only on the first side of the first tape but I'm amazed at the statistics. If the average American eats 3-4 fast food burgers a week, and I eat none, someone is eating a whole lot more that 3-4 to make that the average. Ewww. I've never really been into fast food - because of the weight issues. Funny, I'm so picky about that but not so much with the chocolate and ice cream, etc. I guess we all pick our own poison, huh?