Ein on the Books

Wow, two books completed in a week! I go off to the beach for a few days and swallow a book and a half and still have time to read about (ogle) George Clooney's weekend of Washington hijinks in the Post. Woot!

I followed Bossypants with a few short stories from a Margaret Atwood collection called Bluebeard's Egg. It was amazing prose, but far too dense for beach reading - more of a 'stuck home in a snowstorm read', so I put it down and picked up a piece of entertaining drivel - The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington based on a British 'reality/travel' show for Sky network called "An Idiot Abroad" (which I have never seen because I have never had access to Sky when I've been in Britain) which is definitely a show with a very specific target audience: dudes who never leave their couches.

All I can say is: I am NOT Karl Pilkington.

Still though, by the end of this year, I will have visited three of the seven "Modern" Wonders of the World described in the book; so that was interesting. Also, the book was funny, and apparently my literary genre of choice right now is 'funny books about mostly real things'. It's just like when I went through my Anthony Bourdain phase where I read all of his books in a summer (note to Tony: write more books - I feel that reading your entire cannon of foodie ramblings more than twice might be overdoing it).

Now I'm back in Cairo and am officially starting my third diet-that-will-backfire-and-will-result-in-weight-gain in three years (also called 'getting old'). At least I have a streaky/weird sunburn/tan from the beach get-away!

Sokhna Reading

This morning, while sitting here:

I finished my first book of 2012 ('first' because I still have one chapter of "Island Beneath the Sea," which probably added 5 lbs to my luggage both to and from America --- where I didn't read a page), Bossypants by Tina Fey.

After reading this book, I have decided that I AM Tina Fey (except that I'm younger, taller, curvier and from Baltimore instead of Philly).

(Oh, and I'm not famous, or a comedian/actress/writer, and I live in an Egyptian Suburb instead of Manhattan...)

Okay, okay: I am NOT Tina Fey - but at least we both had nightmares about Count Chocula as children (unless that was a joke, in which case I again feel very, very alone in the world).

Anyway, I finished Tina Fey's book and I spent the entire three days it took me to read it laughing out loud (not LOLing; actually laughing - like people used to do before there was internet) - so I guess I liked it (a lot).

What I ate today

Today for dinner I made this:

Steak (in brown butter with salt and pepper), Baked Potato w/ ICBINB, and steamed Asparagus.

Last night for dinner I made this:

Chicken breasts with bacon in a bacon/apple/Jack Daniels sauce with whipped potatoes and steamed asparagus.

So happy to be back in my tiny kitchen playing with my food!