Usually called the doctor. Or the caretaker.

So, because hypoglycemia makes me obsessive yet easily distracted, I went into the kitchen to make lunch and instead washed some dishes, cleaned out and reorganized two drawers, threw a bunch of pointless crap away, made a cup of tea, and assembled froot for the incipient cake.

Froot:

Sufficient frozen pie cherries to make a generous cup, partially thawed and sliced
1/2 cup golden raisins
1/2 cup dark currants
1/2 cup pitted dates, chopped coarsely¹
5/8 cup kalamata string figs, chopped coarsely²
1 orange
1 lemon

I think the rest of it is pretty self explanatory, but here's what I did with the orange and lemon.

Choose fragrant, colorful citrus fruits with plump peels. Scrub them well, and cut off any bad places on the orange's peel. Then carefully score and remove the peel in 4 petals. Cut the petals into slices about 1/4 inch wide and add to bowl. Reserve fruit. Slice lemon into thin slices, removing seeds and putting slices into bowl. Separate the orange into 3-4 large sections, eat one, and then cut the others into large chunks and add to bowl.

Now you have a medium sized Pyrex (or whatever) mixing bowl that is chock full of fruit. Drizzle over it 2 TBS of pomegranate molasses, add about 2 tsp vanilla and then fill to within 1/2 inch or so of top of fruit with hot water. Add some nutmeg, cinnamon, a little clove, and allspice. Toss. Sprinkle with 1 1/2 TBS of good quality cane sugar (something with a little molasses flavor to it still) and leave it sit for awhile.

I'll tell you the rest when I get there. :)

For lunch, I had half a pita toasted and one side of the pocket spread with hummus and the other with pesto. Then I jammed in a handful of spinach, 3 sliced mushrooms, and some gruyere and topped with more hummus and pesto.

Mmmmm.



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1. Do not, for the love of Demeter and Persephone, buy cheapo grocery store chopped dates full of chemicals and coated with fructose powder, okay? If you do, just don't even talk to me. That's disgusting.

2. This is about one row in the little two-row tray I got. You need the extra because you will not be able to resist eating some when you see how gorgeous they look as you cut them.