i made a glorious improvised shepherd's pie - potatoes and sweet potatoes with walnuts on top of ground turkey cooked with onions, ancho pepper, chipotle powder, thyme, and a tiny bit of cinnamon. i am grateful that food is delicious. it's so much better this way than if we just ate because otherwise we'd die.

i made carrot-sweet potato chicken curry while listening to a pandora station based on etta james' "in the basement." divinity.

after a bike ride around como lake, my friend nick and i made ceviche - red onions, shrimp, tomatoes, cilantro, limes, orange, fried plantain on the side. it was colorful and sensuous. we made a huge mess in the kitchen and then scrubbed it spotless. all in all, very satisfying.

simple

for breakfast, i ate rice with hemp milk, maple syrup, half a banana, and walnuts. it was delicious.

after a morning bike lock debachle, i biked to common ground meditation center, my favorite spirituality hub, even though i was doomed to be half an hour late. i missed the meditation, but was just in time for the dharma talk, which, fittingly enough, was on determination and being resolute.

i was unexpectedly taken out to breakfast at the seward cafe, a collectively owned and run restaurant with an emphasis on local, organic, sustainable food. i am now officially in love with the place. anywhere that has a free box and a hand-drawn menu gives me palpitations. i had a gluten-free, vegan rice-millet-corn pancake with blueberries, tahini, and maple syrup! a highly allergic girl's dream come true! hibiscus tea is the ideal drink for a warm, sunny, delicious spring day.

today was so phenomenal that i'm tempted to write about the whole thing. but that would defeat the purpose of the word "best," so that's all i've got.

until tomorrow!