Still eating my spinach smoothies every day.  For the record, there is nothing gross about a spinach smoothie!  Is it the thought of drinking spinach that turns some people off?  And how it looks?  And thinks?  

I threw a bunch of quinoa seed into a boiling pot of (Himalayan salted) water, added lid, turned off heat, sat down to read a book; returned in 20 minutes and dinner was ready.  For a moment I went crazy with the effort and topped my bland base of 2 lbs of quinoa with a few haphazard chunks of sweet red bell pepper and green avocado.  Green and red because xmas is near.  Joy to the world.  The three tastes and textures and temperatures combined in one dish made for some interesting internal dinner conversation. 

Vancouver!  Thank-you for tonight's autumnal sunset of deep violet + surprising pink + trademark orange hues.  I wouldn't have the balls to wear all those colours at once, but you pulled it off to an appreciative audience.  Nice and slow.  Let's do it again tomorrow night and the next night and every night forevermore.  Bedtime.