Days of Soup and Tea

I've been sick all week.  ALL WEEK.  All week I've been working from home, sipping soup and drinking tea.  I've drank so much Peppermint Amour tea that I never want to see the stuff again.  I actually eventually sullied my My Lian Dieter Braun tea cup with that crappy Immunizer Tea from David's Tea.  You know, the one that's supposed to be a citrusy, minty, zingy tea, but is actually closer to the pot-pourri I got as a free sample from Crabtree&Evelyn once in the 90s (it made my undies smell of nothing, incidentally).

All week, I had variations on red lentil soup.  I made my own rice and red lentil soup one day, and then I made wheat and red lentil soup from a package another.  I made enough to last me a few days.  Now I never want to see red lentil soup again.

My wireless mouse liked warming itself against my lentil soup.

On the upside, I finally made that croissant pudding.  Actually, I instructed Spousal Unit to make it as I was indisposed, lying on the sofa under a pile of used Kleenexes, the toddler gleefully making a mess around me.  

Spousal Unit did a crappy job of it.  He thought that the pudding was done when it was still molten.  It wasn't.  The pudding has to rise and look like a soufflé for it to be done.  So I put it back in the oven and waited, all the while sniffling and feeling like someone had taken a cheese grater to my throat.  It eventually rose and I went to bed.  The next day, I tasted some and found that Spousal Unit put in so much booze that I was able to taste it in my stuffy state. 

I had some with coffee (which I had in my cutesy cup because I couldn't be bothered to get a proper espresso cup). I spilled the coffee, though.  I assume it was because of the booze.

"Now look what you've done!"

A Grainy Day: Rice Crackers and Wheat Soup

The office was closed between Xmas and New Year, so it it's only been open since Tuesday.  When I returned to the office today (Thursday), I didn't expect much from the snack closet. I figured it hadn't even been stocked, especially since half the engineers were still on vacation.  But no, the snack closet was stocked -- with the bizarrest food ever!  

There were weird ranch-flavoured baguette bites, the stupid sesame-poppy-seed crackers, Costco brand granola bars, two-bite cinnamon rolls (!) and Japanese-style rice crackers.  Oh, and in the fridge there was some kind of onion dip that Linda, The Office Manager and God of the Snack Closet, said was the bestest thing ever.  I'm sure it tasted great, but it included such tasty ingredients as monosodium glutamate, so I stayed away from it even as she scooped some into Jim from QA's plate.   

Instead I ate the rice crackers and sesame-poppy-seed crackers.  What's left here are the nori-covered crackers that I hate.  Nori tastes like dead fish.

For lunch I had leftover wheat and lentil soup.  It was from a package.  I thought I was buying red lentil and barley soup.  Instead it was wheat.  Whatever.  It was edible.  

Not Barley Red Lentil Soup