√ To Do Monday

With the day off, the list of to-do’s was long and scroll-like, starting with two classes at the gym. I did the pilates stretch and alignment class. Given the early morning hour and Park avenue address, it was me and a studio filled with lively blossomed senior ladies. The instructor played Sinatra and lead us into the Rockette-style formation as we tipped our pilates rings like top hats. It was the best class I’ve ever been to! After, a b-line to Best Buy on 23rd street who had my beloved SLR for the past week for a preventative maintenance tune-up, to Trader Joe’s for lunch fixings for the week and back to Brooklyn, picking up my laundry and finally whipping up breakfast. I made use of the stale ciabatta rolls I picked up over the weekend, dredging them in VwaV‘s Fronch Toast mixture. In the enthusiasm of finally having my camera, as well as daylight in the kitchen, here is the step-by-step.
My kitty Frankenstein relished my daytime presence, reclining in my lap whilst I finally downloaded Easybeats’s Friday On My Mind on my iTunes. This is the half-way point: a breather. There’s much more Monday to do.

Ok, lunch time. Time to help the 2011 January Pantry Turnover. Time to get rid of the bizarre can of vegetarian duck from the Asian grocery store. Packed with a ton of sodium, I went easy on the salt with a heavily spiced curry. Minced ginger, garlic and onion set the stage for teaspoons galore of cumin, cayenne, garam masala and curry powder.

What do you do with a scoop of Millers Bran? You sneak it into chocolate chip cookies, that’s what! I cut the 2 cups of flour like this: 1 cup all-purpose flour, 3/4 whole wheat flour, 1/4 bran; and I cut the sugar like this: 1/2 granulated sugar and 1/2 cup raw cane sugar. Also, before measuring out thick, flowing molasses in your little teaspoon, coat it in canola oil. That’s a tip.

As mentioned previously, this is what’s left of my books, color-coded to the best of my ability. Ain’t it pretty?