This week I achieved a personal milestone- one that can only signal I’ve reached full adulthood at age 32. I haven’t gotten married, or had kids, or moved out of my shared bachelorette pad. I’m in fact no closer to doing any of these things than I was last week or, quite frankly, 2 years ago. But what I have done, readers, is purchase my first real (i.e. not from Ikea) mattress.
I’m eight days out from being able to chew again (I mean, who’s counting, really) and boy am I excited. While dutifully eating my puréed soups, fruit smoothies and extra-calorie Ensures, I’ve been torturing myself watching the Food Network and scrolling through my almost exclusively food-centric Instagram feed. While I won’t be able to dive directly into a T-bone next week, I’m working out some easy, soft recipes (fish, pasta, eggs) to get started on. It’s utterly exhilarating.
In my ongoing and intermittently successful quest to feed myself at lunchtime without becoming a pauper, I’ve come across a few truly delicious recipes that have joined the relatively exclusive cache of things I might make again. This rice dish is one of them. Admittedly, the ingredient list looks a little off-color at first glance (radishes and ricotta salata anyone?) but I swear that this really works and makes for a delicious lunch you’ll actually want to fetch from the office refrigerator and not abandon for a $14 salad at the last minute or leave it at home “accidentally”.
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