Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

I've not been feeling great, and haven't felt like spending a whole lot of time in front of the computer (despite somehow finding time to post something longwinded to the Minstrel mailing list yesterday), so I'm a bit behind on communication in general. Email as well as LiveJournal. I just wanted to post a short message in case anyone who reads my journal was wondering where I'd gone.

House situtation: at the moment I'm waiting for things that I need other people to do -- an estimate from a contractor, and a form from my mother.

Right now I'm experimenting in the kitchen, trying to create a black-and-purple dish. The inspiration for this was my running out of more convenient foods and noticing that I had some dried black beans in the pantry as well as a little bit of dried purple corn in the cupboard, and watching the Baltimore Ravens finally win one this season. I'm currently leaning in the direction of some sort of crunchy snack thing that might be good to nibble while watching a football game on television, but I'm still sifting ideas in the back of my brain for something that would be either an entree or a side dish in a sit-down meal. Something more interesting than "gee, here's a bowl of black beans and purple corn with a bit of salt", though for colour/presentation reasons I might not add too many more ingredients other than spices and other mostly-invisible flavour-things. If I wind up with anything really interesting, I'll describe it here eventually.