Unidentified Vegetable Objects

Isn't this an odd-looking thing? It's a Romanesco Cauliflower, although I've also seen it called Romanesco Broccoli. It's a lovely shade of bright green, and the florets have this cool geometric shape. Because we love our cruciferous veggies (and they're so good for you!), and because this was on sale the other day, I got a head of it and fixed it last night. It was very tasty, almost a little milder and nuttier than regular white cauliflower. I will definitely buy it again.

I'm afraid the picture doesn't give the full effect of the Romanesco. I made it hover around Ken's head as I made spaceship sounds, and I really cracked myself up. Ken said, "It looks like some kind of bacteria." I said, "Nah, no bacteria looks like that. A virus, maybe." Ken said, "Yeah!" I'm happy to report that we enjoyed our virus-like, hovering spaceship of a head of cauliflower. Who says we're too old to play with our food?!

Ken's project yesterday was getting the DVD cabinets and wine racks put together. He also put the doors on and the shelves in the additional CD cabinet I ordered a while back. So my job today was to go through the DVDs and CDs and get things rearranged. The ones to be watched are upstairs in a rack in the office, and the ones we've watched are in the cabinets in the basement. I even started arranging them by genre, including horror, comedy, and drama. (I have a small superhero section, too.) I spent the rest of the afternoon rearranging the CD cabinets, and getting the stack(s) that had piled up by the stereo put away and in their proper places (yes, I alphabetize). Man, have I got some good music down there, or what?

Quite a bit of it, too, as you can see from the picture. These cabinets (made by Soricé, and I recommend them highly) hold 300 CDs, and we have 4 of them. I still have a little room to grow, but not much. I think I'll be scaling back on the CD purchases the same way I've scaled back on books. I'm going to have to get caught up on all of this stuff at some point!