Feeling better

It's not quite the peaches and cream that some other week 3's have been (but boy are the peaches and nectarines and plums and pluots and strawberries and raspberries and blackberries and blueberries all amazing in the market right now), but I have been gradually feeling a bit better every day this week.  And I'm feeling well enough now that I'm starting to think about doing some fun stuff.  And about good eating again.

On the topic of good eats, the latest batch of chocolate ice cream is nearly gone, so I'm starting to think about what's next.  Likely some berry sorbet.  While I'm probably more fond in general of raspberries or blackberries for that, the strawberries we bought at the farmers market this afternoon were the best strawberries we've had all year, so that may win out.  The pint is already gone.  I hope that farm is back at the Saturday market so that we can get more.  A few other interesting observations with respect to berries and cream: 1) We tried raspberry sauce with the chocolate ice cream.  Interesting, but not as good as the strawberry sauce.  We haven't yet tried a blackberry sauce, but we might.  2) Although the chocolate ice cream is great with strawberry sauce, we actually found that the strawberries just by themselves straight up with the chocolate ice cream are somewhat disappointing.  Which was a very surprising discovery.

I'm also back in the mood for pie.  Tonight I made a raspberry/blackberry pie (with a handful of blueberries thrown in to fill things out a bit) that I'm delivering tomorrow to someone at work, sort of in exchange for him giving me his unused Kindle (they had given them out to every one as a holiday bonus last year).  After initially being somewhat skeptical, I've grown somewhat fond of my Kindle, and it's not the easiest thing to share between two people if you both want to be reading something, and Lorien decided she wanted one too.  I'm trying to decide what the next pie will be.  I want to get a number of more berry pies in (esp. once the olallieberries arrive), but I'm thinking of perhaps a peach/ginger pie next.

I finally went to the dermatologist today.  Probably I should've done it a week ago, when the rash was really bad.  By now it's actually pretty significantly subsided, although I've been getting a bit uneasy about the fact that it's still spreading somewhat to some new places.  Despite what I said earlier, I think that it's not from poison oak.  I don't think it's from any internal allergic reaction given the pattern, but really I don't have a clue what it's from.  Neither does the dermatologist.  Nevertheless, he gave me a somewhat stronger (prescription) ointment to use.  So hopefully it'll all be gone in the not too distant future.  It's still a bit itchy, but way less than before.

Lorien and Dylan both came back from Toronto with colds, which kind of sucks.  But the good news is that both of them were much improved today, so hopefully the family will be all good and healthy for a reasonable portion of my week 3, and we can take advantage of the time before cycle 7 starts.

Okay, it's late, I ought to get to bed.  Just wanted to let people know that things aren't as gloomy any more as they were as of my previous post.