A rather rainy day

It's raining here.  Again.  I think it's rained more days in May than is hasn't.

I've been up since 5am.  The thought was to get up with my husband so I could accomplish more in the day.  So far, they only things I've accomplished is to have breakfast, feed and dress my daughter, and put her back down for a nap.  Which it sounds as if she'll shortly be waking.  And I did do my devotional reading and my blog post. I am still playing catch-up.  But that's okay, it's been a nice few days: coffee and dinner with friends, reading a cookbook (yes, actually reading the cookbook).

I know that Julie and Julia has spawned a bunch of spin-off projects, which I think is fun and fabulous.  I admit, I was rather tempted myself.  But I really didn't have a cookbook that I felt I really wanted to cook all the way through.  That might have changed.  I am reading Alice Water's The Art of Simple Food and I'm loving it.  She makes the food sound so good and easy and... simple.  I don't know if it really is all that.  Souffle?  Yeah, maybe not so easy.  Boiled dinner?  Hers, of course, is the ultimate and looks like it could take all day.  Or several days.  But I like the chapters, the lessons, the foundations.  When we move out on our own and begin to change our diet (because it is looking rather certain now and I might try starting it bit by bit here at my parents'), I think it would be wonderful to have a family night, one night of the weekend that is just ours that we don't share.  And then maybe I could break out Alice Waters and try something from her book, we could cook through it weekend by weekend.  I'm feeling a Eating Good with Alton Brown/Alice Waters-style coming on (nod to friends on Facebook).  Only Nick would never let me make an Onion Tart.  We'll have to think about that one...