{"id":31,"date":"2007-02-11T21:08:37","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T02:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/2007\/02\/11\/nothin-says-lovin\/"},"modified":"2011-10-13T19:04:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T00:04:29","slug":"nothin-says-lovin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Nothin&#8217; Says Lovin&#8217; . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>February 11, 2007<br \/>\nSunday <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no doubt about it today. There <strong>is <\/strong>a connection between my writing and my cooking, two ways in which I express myself, define myself. I went to the draft of the story I wrote this week, reading it after I&#8217;d let it cool for a while. I realized that in that story and in another\u00c2\u00a0well-received one,\u00c2\u00a0a man observes a woman cooking and falls in love with her.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I made pizza from scratch. (Well, almost scratch \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I did use a prepared Boboli crust and canned sauce.) I browned sausage and spread mushrooms on it, put some pepperoni on my half, and then lavished shredded mozzarella and provolone all over it. It didn&#8217;t look like a Pizza Hut item (no folded over edge with cheese oozing out), and you had to eat it with a knife and fork, but it was really good. (7 Weight Watcher points, for those counting.) Today I alternated cooking and writing. Before I went to church I made sticky rice, a Thai dessert of jasmine rice sweetened with coconut milk and served with mango \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 9 points). During the afternoon I made chicken breasts with spinach and fresh basil (another Thai dish \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I do not know how or where I acquired my love for Thai cuisine \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 7 points if served with rice) and apple pie for dinner (the apple pie decidedly the American variety but kept to 7 points by using a crumb topping instead of another full crust), and <em>tortellini en brodo<\/em> (prepackaged tortellini in a broth flavored with scallions and hot sauce \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 5 points) for tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>I was planning on a writer&#8217;s field trip tomorrow, but if I have to stay home to wait for the garage door repairman, I&#8217;ll make Italian bread to go with the soup and 1-point chocolate bites.<\/p>\n<p>Still unexplained is why my mood is so sunny during a February, a time a friend once described as twenty-eight dark, horrible, unnecessary days, especially a February when the temperature has been below freezing for ten solid days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 11, 2007 Sunday There is no doubt about it today. There is a connection between my writing and my cooking, two ways in which I express myself, define myself. I went to the draft of the story I wrote this week, reading it after I&#8217;d let it cool for a while. I realized that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}