Well, it’s pouring down rain outside the Cafe, so come on in and stay till the downpour lets up…
I know it might be a little early, but can I pour you a glass of wine? I’m finishing off my bottle of merlot today (bought purely on the basis of the label design, of course!):
And we need a little appetizer to go with our wine, don’t you think? How about the special of the day:
1 whole garlic head
Cooking spray
3 plum tomatoes, each cut into 4 wedges
1/2 cup (2 ounces) crumbled goat cheese
12 (1/2-inch-thick) slices diagonally cut French bread baguette, toasted
Preheat oven to 425°.
Remove white papery skin from garlic head (do not peel or separate the cloves); wrap in foil. Line a baking sheet with foil; coat foil with cooking spray. Arrange tomato wedges in a single layer on foil. Bake garlic and tomatoes at 425° for 40 minutes, turning tomatoes after 20 minutes. Remove tomatoes from oven; bake garlic an additional 5 minutes. Remove garlic from oven; cool 10 minutes. Separate cloves; squeeze to extract garlic pulp. Discard skins. Mash garlic pulp and goat cheese with a fork until blended.
Spread 2 teaspoons goat cheese mixture over each bread slice. Top each with 1 tomato wedge.
And this is the song that keeps playing on my “mental iPod” this week:
We’re living in a time of inconvenience
Compassion fails me with this meanness in the air
Our city streets are filled with violence
So we close our doors to the city
And pretend that it’s not there
Here I go again
Back out on these mean streets
The evil seems to cling to the soles of my feet
Cuz’ I’m living in a time of inconvenience
At an inconvenient time
We’re living in the age of communication
Where the only voices heard have money in their hands
Where greed has become a sophistication
And if you ain’t got money
You ain’t got nothin’ in this land
An’ here I am one lonely woman
On these mean streets
Where the right to life man has become my enemy
Cuz’ I’m living in his time of inconvenience
At an inconvenient time
Bridge:
I’ve turned my cheek
As my history fades
While the clock ticks away
Any progress we’ve made
I never thought
I’d be ashamed to be human
Afraid to say
My time has seen it’s day
Cuz’ I’m living in a time of inconvenience
Living in a time of inconvenience
Living in a time of inconvenience
It’s an inconvenient time
This is the time of greed and power
Where everyone needs to have someone to shove around
Our children come to us for answers
Listening for freedom but they don’t know the sound
And there they are, our children
Dumped out in these mean streets
The evil sweeps them up
And brings them to their knees
Cuz’ they’re living in our time of inconvenience
They’re living in the age of communication
This is the time of greed and power
This is the time that I wish was not mine
Cuz’ it’s an inconvenient time
-N. Griffith
So, what’s new with you? Any big plans for the weekend?
Feel free to recommend or hotlist as you wish, and may the 4’s be with you!