Back for Lunch & Cat Humor

I'm back, two days in a row, for lunch! This is a miracle of sorts. Actually, my winter holiday starts today, and so I have the rest of the year off.

That joke never gets old.

This isn't a promise to share what I eat every day for lunch; so let's just take it slow here.

I'm impressed with those food bloggers who can post their meals and some humorous and enjoyable commentary alongside on a daily basis. Even more props to those who post three times each day. I can barely remember to shower every day (that one's for you Tim), never mind take photos of my food and write something witty. 

But back to today. This morning ended up being glorious. I walked to the post office first (I have an addiction to checking my PO Box. Too bad that addiction didn't also translate into blog posting... or showering. There you are again, Tim) to get some business done, and then headed out for a jog. 

I think I've reached a new level of boring in my life. Not the post office, or the jog (although those could both qualify) but as I was jogging, I passed all of these well-decorated houses with the most beautiful doors. Festive red doors with huge fresh green wreathes. Old doors on houses from the 1850s decorated with red winter berry wreathes. Doors upon doors. I pondered doing a photo montage of "Doors of Westminster" and then realized that I have plummeted to a new level of mind numb. 

Sorry to bore you with the doors.

After this stimulating run, I came home to this delicious lunch. Talk about excitement.

FSTG corn chips, homemade fish chowder and a satsuma orange

The fish chowder materialized after my deep guilt for my hoarder's freezer. Scary. Don't judge. It was time to purge the frost-bitten packages wedged behind the ice trays.

Most of it is packed with peaches and homemade chicken stock, but I was lucky enough to find some frozen cod and corn, and from that came this delicious fish chowder. It started out being this Eating Well recipe for creamy fish chowder and ended up something else. I didn't add bacon but used some butter and olive oil to cook the onions and garlic. I had no clam juice: substituted vegetable broth instead. I added a ton of frozen corn. The result was a thin-brothed soup. I'm not sure everyone enjoys this type of chowder, but I know I do. The gummy consistency of many clam chowders don't appeal to me.

So if you are sleeping at this point because this post was so boring (in which case you wouldn't be reading this) or if you, in some tangled and distorted way do not believe I embody the likes of a bore, please watch this video.  Then you'll agree. Yes, I take iPhone videos of my cat trying to get a Christmas bow off his head.