hiatus, followed by beets

after a long hiatus spent mostly in portland, i returned to the fold today to find, at lunch, tiny cups filled with tiny cubes of steamed rainbow beets (the ones striated and splashed with gold, red, and purple) and shreds of shiso. a steamed beet is a beautiful thing. in slice, the improbable smoothie of the week was The Pineapple King: pineapples, sandpiper strawberries, agave syrup, spearmint, crushed ice, and macadamia nuts. improbable but marvellous.