wtf weekend

so this was the first weekend in a long time that i didn't get like, totally hammered or at least drunk beyond buzzed and stumble up the stairs and spend saturday useless and hungover. i had 2-3 glasses of wine on friday night at a friends' house, and went to a bar but i just wasn't feeling it. when i don't drink, i don't smoke as much. also don't get as hungry. so saturday was actually useful - went downtown and visited the asian market, got a red bean bun, checked out this cheese shop i've been eyeing and the vintage store next to it, wanted to try and find a gallery but apparently the exhibit was closed so no dice. walked around trying to find another gallery to no avail. not really a busy 4pm saturday down there, though i did find harney and sons peach & ginger tea at a coffee shop, and reeeeally should have bought some. or the gunpowder tea. mmm. i really, really want to try some of that cheese, though, even though none of it is below $14/lb. yeah. but it looks paris-worthy.
stomach has been off and on. I had cheese for breakfast [in homemade hashbrowns/potatoes] and lunch [along with crappy seafood salad, tried to improve it with dill and swiss, still sucked] on saturday and that did not turn out too hot. Black tea, too, made an unsettling feeling. I ended up having salad with a homemade dressing for dinner - oil, red wine vinegar infused with garlic, garlic powder, ginger powder, a drizzle of hoisin and a squirt of sriracha. was quite tasty. salad had cubes of baked tofu in it so it went well with the dressing.
That was lunch for the next day too - sunday's breakfast was eggs and rice, this time with a dab of hoisin. just a little bit of the sweet sauce really helped the plainness of the egg/rice mix - it was good before, when i needed something simple, but really should have had something else. i decided against ketchup because.. well, cmon, ketchup and rice? blah!
Dinner sunday was whole wheat spaghetti with canned oysters in a pseudo cream sauce - vanilla soymilk/lite mayo reduction, garlic, basil, oregano, tarragon and some other spices - served on the pasta with the white oyster sauce on one side and a regular red pasta sauce on the other. The vanilla soymilk really added a strange sweet flavor to the oyster sauce, and the mayo is good for thickening it up and adding a nice tang.

Lunch today was ordered out - got a salad and sammich from liquid lunch. Which is, quite possibly, the most delicious soup/sammich/salad restaurant i have ever eaten at, period, this includes paris, france, so yeah. If you are ever in the southern CT/new haven-ish area, make sure you go to Shelton or Milford for these sammiches, they are a-maz-ing. Anyway, I had a garden salad [with homemade poppy seed croutons, fresh peppers, baby spinach and red lettuce, tomatoes and swiss, with honey mustard dressing] and a portobello sandwich - panini, more like, with melted mozzarella, pesto, baby spinach and the most deliciously marinated roasted portobello I've ever had. it's how portobello SHOULD taste. So delicous. I don't know what they do in this place but seriously, never, ever, ever disappointed in the food.