It never fails

I make bad snap purchasing decisions. I needed to replace my black heels that are falling apart. The store was about 95 degrees, very full of irritated people, with no room to sit or move through clogged aisles. I found a pair of shoes, bought them, and fled. The shoes that I thought fit ok in the store are most certainly too big. I'm rattling around in them. Sigh. I guess I'll have to get some inserts.

At least I didn't pay very much for them.

Big food weekend

We spent a lot of the weekend playing with food.

- Stuffed cabbage rolls: Delicious, but labor intensive. OMG makes so much food. There's an awful lot of food on a cabbage, it turns out. I can see why a Polish American friend of my parents used to make them as a party food, though--they take forever but you can make them two or three days ahead of time, they take no damage from sitting in a steam tray, and they're modular. Can be eaten one at a time on a little plate with a plastic fork.

- Vegetarian sausage: tried a new brand that was actually quite good.

- Goat cheese paneer rolled in herbs: not as tangy as expected, but seriously delicious. Dangerously delicious. The amount that five people managed to put away as pre-Easter dinner hors d'oeuvres was frightening.

- Old experiments: both the roasted cauliflower and the lemon rosemary bread are still fantastic.

- Late harvest Riesling ice cream: as mentioned before, failed to freeze. Tasty dessert sauce, though.

- Flourless chocolate cake: truffle in cake form. Fantastic. A little goes a long way. But so, so good.