Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

Adrian made strawberry pancakes, blueberry pancakes, and raspberry pancakes, partly because we have all these strawberries to use up, and partly so I could try cooked strawberries, after the fresh ones made my lips itch on Friday.

I ate a bite of a strawberry pancake, and found it bland and uninteresting. I didn't react to the berry, but it was one small piece of strawberry, and I don't know whether a larger amount would have been a problem.

I may yet try something like a strawberry sauce over cake or ice cream. Adrian noted that raw and cooked strawberries are almost different fruits, but it also seems possible that a strawberry sauce will taste more like raw berries than like strawberries baked into pancakes.

Since we're not eating indoors in restaurants, the three of us had a few meals of takeout food sitting on a bench or at a little table on/near de la Gaucheterie, near the Scintillation hotel. We also managed two meals of the duck rillette I bought at Marche Jean Talon on the Friday afternoonL with a baguette as dinner that night, and a bit as breakfast before checking out on Monday. carbonel recommended that I go there while we were comparing out purchases, and I have thanked her, because it was good. (I got two small packages of duck rillettes from the refrigerator section, which we ate Friday night and Monday morning, plus shelf-stable jars of duck rillettes and duck creton, which are now in our pantry.)

All those quick meals of dumplings and such meant I had almost no fruit or vegetables for a few days. I've been making up for that, some, including with the first local strawberries of the season: adrian_turtle bought a quart at the Davis Square Farmers Market yesterday, which I finished as part of my breakfast this morning, and cattitude got another quart of strawberries at the Brookline farmers market today.

Tonight we will be having falafel, in pita Adrian picked up in Watertown, and there's a jar of taramasalata for later.

Since Adrian wasn't home for lunch yesterday or today, Cattitude made cheese sandwiches for lunch yesterday, and at his request I made a cheese omelet today, with a little red pepper left from last night's pasta salad.