It should be a mostly-vacation day soon: just have a couple of tasks to do. Then, on to some fun.

Here’s a brief list of what the options are:

• Cooking/baking
• Hiking
• Photography
• Knitting
• Painting
• Making paracord bracelets

I love days like that.

Yesterday’s experiment with tuna & carrot pulp went well: I decided to make some vegetable juice and save the carrot pulp for a pate of sorts. Here’s how it went:

1. Run 2 giant carrots & 4 stalks celery through juicer.
2. Empty pulp bin into bowl & refrigerate.
3. Run remaining vegetables through juicer & discard pulp.
4. 20 minutes of washing out the blasted machine (see previous post).
5. Drink juice while assembling tuna pate.

The pate itself was good: it was 1 can of Trader Joe’s Tongol tuna (in water, with no added salt), the carrot/celery pulp, enough mayo to moisten the whole thing, a couple of drops of nam pla (Thai fish sauce), and soy sauce & celery seed to taste.

It works for me because it lets me extend the tuna with something very healthy, carrot’s a really pleasant taste with tuna, and it allows me to use something that otherwise was going into the compost. Don’t get me wrong: compost is awesome, just not for lunch.