Shopping, cooking, and eating: day 2

First things first. The update on yesterday's dinner: J. and I went to see Little Children at the Parkway instead of roasting vegetables. So I ate a Left Turn at Albuquerque Combo, which broke three of the rules, but not in the worst way. (This ridiculously named dish is a basket of veggies—broccoli, carrots, cucumber, cherry tomatoes—with olives, pita, hummus, baba ghanoush, and some kind of ranch-esque dip. The pita was white flour, the dip had dairy of unknown provenance, and the cucumber and tomatoes doubtless came from Mexico.)

Oh, and since I was soooo hungry by the time we got to the theater (and I knew the food would take a while), I also had a bowl of popcorn. At the Parkway they do it right: air-popped with real butter (yeah, okay, I know: dairy of unknown provenance; but really, I think no matter what it's better than the usual factory-produced chemical fake butter you find in most movie theaters).

So. Day 2. No shopping at all. This morning I used my rice cooker to make some of the rice I bought yesterday, and roasted all the veggies I was going to roast last night (procedure [too simple to even call a recipe]: cut brussels sprouts in half/broccoli and cauliflower into florets/sweet potatoes and parsnips into chinks; smoosh it all around with some olive oil on a cookie sheet; roast at 500° for 12 minutes; stir/turn all veggies; roast for 6-10 more minutes).

So far I have eaten:

• a bowl of the rice I bought yesterday, with some olive oil, salt, and pepper (breakfast)
  
• a bottomless cup of the same green tea I drink every day
  
• a bowl of roasted veggies with more rice (breakfast part 2)
  
• more roasted veggies (lunch)
• I also attempted to eat an orange out of my friend A.'s fruit bowl, but it tasted like a grapefruit that someone puked on, so I spit it out and threw the rest away, which is something I never, ever do

Dinner is a big open question right now.

On a completely other topic—well, not completely—someone just hipped me to this cute lil video about real vs. fake food.