Calamity Shazaam in the Kitchen

Last winter - no snow. This winter - no snow. Until February when BA-BAM we got all the snow. All the snow at once. Did I go out in it? Hell no. I used to love winter weather, but I got used to no snow. Think of it this way - if you ease yourself into it, you CAN go swimming off the coast on Maine in June. But if you plunge in, you are going to jump right out because it's too much all at once. If you don't immediately die of a heart attack from the shock, that is. If we'd had a little snow all season, it'd be easier to cope with the mountain of snow that is at present parked  right outside my front door. Ugh. Wah wah wah. Call the wahhhmbulance. So rather think about that, I thought about lunch and about how it ought to have bacon in it. I had some nice bacon that I chopped up and cooked with some onion and garlic.  Then I added some black beans and slow cooked the whole thing for a few hours. Frankly, I could have just eaten it without the beans...

Man do I LOVE Friday. It holds so much promise, a lovely two day blank slate. Providing you don't think too much about the laundry, dishes, bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, basement, that need cleaning and all that other crap.  On the list of things I want to do this weekend, aside from the fantasy where I totally finish every unfinished project around the house, is to take the MiniET to the latest iteration of Flour Bakery + Cafe on Clarendon.  Not only is there a tot-lot across the street from it, but I love Joanne Chang. And frankly, who doesn't? No one. I worked for her about a million years ago and didn't appreciate it at the time because, well, for lots of reasons and none of which speak well of my own character at the time.  Let's just say it took me a very long time to grow out of the center of my own universe.  Nowadays when I churn out a meal in my wee kitchen, I think about my brief stint at Flour and how I was trained to work in a small space with a minimum o