A silly photo from just now, whilst E is doing some work reading about cats online and eating a CARROT!! Yum, carrots! Didja know corgis like carrots? Didya? We sure do! look at me all lonely like down here by myself, dontcha think i could sure use a carrot?

In other news, we are having GRILLED WISCONSIN BRATWURST for dinner! Um, holy cow. I am sooo excited to make these suckers. Though, when your lover hails from the badger state, there’s a tad bit of extra pressure not to screw em up. Earl already schooled me on proper beer-soaking and fork-pricking methods. Hopefully they’ll turn out okay. Also exciting is that, per most of the recipes I found, “drinking beer whilst cooking wisconsin bratwurst is a mandatory part of the process.” Sweet! At least I’ve got that part down.

I’m making these soy-sauce sesame crusted roasted radishes as a side. Not because they particularly sound like they’ll go with grilled bratwurst, but because we have radishes on hand and I’ve been wanting to try that recipe out now for a while. I’ve seen roasted radishes mentioned a LOT lately, and people are always talking about how surprisingly awesome they turn out. Radishes get such a bad rap in the vegetable world. We’ve been roasting lots of veggies lately (asparagus, mushrooms, tomatoes…) and it’s just failproof. They ALWAYS turn out awesome. No huge shocker there that roasted radishes are good, too! Well… I guess we’ll see about that ;)

Oh- one amusing anecdote from my day. I realized we had no crusty rolls to serve the brats on tonight, so I decided to run to the bakery and get some. I had to get a run in anyways, and the bakery was 3 miles away, so it was perfect. I just couldn’t decide if running to the bakery to get a bunch of hard rolls on which to nosh beer and brats is counter-intuitive, awesome, or stupid. What do ya think? The cool part is, I left at about 5:30, and the bakery was closing at 6:00, so it ended up being a bit of speedwork, too! (anything below 10:00 min/mile is certainly speedwork for me at this point.) Anyways, I made it and the rolls look awesome. I also bought a bit of shortbread at the bakery which I noshed mid-run before heading back home :P Couldn’t resist. Anyways, I kinda like this “running to get your errands done” deal.