Floaty and Fruity

My boss has been laughing at me. Every time he turns the corner of my cube wall to come to my desk, he never knows what kind of Asian freaky food or whatnot he will be greeted with each day. I like to keep him on his toes. What made him really investigate was a jug of flavored water I started bring in to take the place of my moratorium on coffee.

There was recent TV coverage on a college in Minnesota encouraging their students to drink more water in lieu of drinking colas in their lunchrooms. They introduced a colorful water bar of clear urns filled with filtered water, ice and sliced fruit. The students are now drinking 150 gallons of water a day.

The Inspiration...


Well, I remembered a similar thing in the Philippines where we would grate cantaloupe to mix with ice, water and sugar to make a flavored drink during the summers. I decided to take that happy memory and recreate it for work. My goal is to successfully drink 3 liters of water a day (via flavored filtered water and hot jasmine green tea). My increase in sleep precludes me from using coffee as a crutch to jumpstart me in the morning. Besides my coffee intake throughout the day was easily an extra 800 calories a day with the cream and table sugar. Now I don't have to add sugar to my drinks and if I do, a packet or two of Splenda is fine. Instead of grating the fruit, I am cutting them into chunks so I can have them for a snack when the water has run out. Clever, eh?

The Result...Cantaloupe and Watermelon Infused Waters



Two Fridays in a row I have gotten home very late from being at the art center after work. I worked as a bartender during the swing/jazz band concert last Friday and hung out with my buddies this Friday. Once I shower and ready for bed about 1.5 hours later, it is around 2:30am on Saturday. My bladder wakes me up around 6am and my body decides it doesn't have a care by going back to sleep until between 1-2pm. I KNOW! Crazy isn't it?

I shopped at the Asian store this afternoon for fresh produce which I've already prepared for my lettuce wraps tomorrow. I've sliced into thin strips cucumber, zucchini, carrots, broccoli, scallions and snowpeas. I will arrange some on a Boston or bibb lettuce leaf, top with bean sprouts and some hoisin sauce I watered down just a bit to drizzle easier. Roll everything up in the lettuce and you have my version of an Asian lettuce wrap. The hoisin sauce makes it extra yummy.

I will leave you my breakfast pear to ponder. This always happens when I use the apple slicer on my pears. It's like a flower with a...a..stem! Yes, that's it. Wink!

Fruit Bloom

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Floaty and Fruity