Elise Matthesen

 So a little while back, for. my birthday I got various tasty things to nibble. One of them was salmon skin and salted egg crisps, with curry leaves in the mix, and some spice. Extremely tasty. When I got down to the bottom of the bag, there were a lot of little shards and crumbs that were particularly spicy. A mental note was. made for possible future uses.

Today was a future use. There wasn't a fresh vegetable in the house, but I wanted something with both softness and crunch, and wanted it to be in something that had umami plus. The last of the bread gave me toast. There was some braunsweiger (liver paste, Nueske's in particular) which went onto the toast, cut pretty thinly. (I am from people who like thick slices of braunsweiger on toast or bread, and normally I do too, but this was a special application, part flavor and part structural adhesive.) Then I spooned out some of the fragments from the bottom of the bag of salted egg and salmon skin crisps, laying them on top of the liver paste and pressing them in with the back of the spoon, and had it open-faced. 

Big win. Big tasty win. Especially the way the curry leaves went with the braunsweiger. 

Must remember this and make it again.

Part of the idea for this one was looking at the braunsweiger and wishing I could magically make a banh mi from the place in Global Market appear. So some of the taste combo came from that. Lettuce or bok choy or other green or variously colored thinly sliced vegetables, with vinegar or not, would have been great, but there was no such suppy in the house, alas. Although hey, there is a little new kraut in the back of the fridge which should get eaten up. Hmmm. Although we are out of bread now. Hmm. I wonder how it would be on top of ramen noodles. Pity that the boiled eggs are all et up.

Do you have any tasty kludged-together food that you are fond of? What gave you the idea?  

(My term for kludged-together food is "cream of refrigerator soup," which explains the tag. No actual soup was generated in this particular instance.)

Bagels with smoked salmon and cream cheese are my birthday treats this year. Om nom nom salmon on a bagel is so goooood. (Big thanks to Catherine Lundoff for making sure there was cream cheese when I had neglected to get some.)

Today got eaten by sleep again mostly, after a fruitless attempt at sleep last night, followed by work until I found enough sleepiness to try again. Well, work and a nice cold bath. It is too hot here, and my domicile is currently not air conditioned. I'm glad to have finally gotten some sleep. The good thing is that today I managed to get meds in me at the right times, so I have hopes that the rest of the week may go more smoothly. (The current format of my timing is that I sleep when I'm tired, and take meds when the schedule says I should, as much as I can manage that.)

And now I'm actually tired and also sleepy, so even though there are 7 small pendants already photographed and ready to go up, I am going to go to bed and see how that works. (I think it was the bagels and smoked salmon and cream cheese. They just make me feel good and safe and well-fed. Such a comfort food they are to me.)

Do you have comfort foods?

Edited to add: Oh, forgot to say, the perfume of the day was Leather Jacket from CB: I Hate Perfume. Like other CB:IHP scents, it does what it says on the tin, which is pretty cool for a water-based accord.