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A nanoblogogogopomo haiku for you.

Remember - maybe it's still your reality - having roommates or staying in a hostel with lots of other people? And were you the type to hang out in the common room or hide in your room? Friends, I was the "hide in your room" type, to the point where once I left out my bedroom window, simply so I would not have to walk through the living room and say hello to my roommate. I value personal privacy in a way that puts lie to my supposed goals of density and good use of resources in urban planning. Give me space and privacy please! So yeah, I just spent the last two hours in my room, listening to my kid breathe over the monitor, listening to the politest, kindest man on the earth make calls in my kitchen, and to the chatter of the women in my living room entering data after a day canvassing the neighborhood. My laptop cord was in the living room too, so rather than go into my own living room, for the first time in about a million years I devoted myself to a book and silence. Sure, it was for school but it was a strange feeling. Surely I should be multi-tasking and juggling a baby and cooking dinner. But I read. Still, I was so happy when we had the living room back to ourselves tonight. And I could cook without guilt. This whole food business is stressing me out. Should I be putting out a buffet everyday? Does my leftover Halloween candy count? We only had ONE trick-or-treater so suffice to say, we have plenty left over. But that doesn't feel all that healthy. My fridge is full mostly of greens from our winter CSA - mustard and braising greens and collard greens, not lettuce. Only a month in to this winter CSA and I am running out of greens ideas. I braise them with lentils, stirfry with garlic and chili, roast them- but man is there something I'm missing? I have poured over the Mark Bittman cookbook many a night but even he is rather mum on the topic. I would also like a cookbook to help with my kid. She is sick of strained food, the aforementioned greens do not go through the food mill well, she can't handle many finger foods and everything that is for "Graduates" is such crap - noxious puffs flavoured with fake banana, pureed meat which makes me shudder, neon orange goldfish - blah. Toast and apple butter and tofu are good but not exactly rounded.
My god, more tomorrow.