Snowballing out of control

I woke up at noon this morning. 

Noon. 

I haven't done that since college!

And no, I was not out raging, I was actually up until 4 AM crafting my little heart out last night, but more on that in a later post.

So back to my story, I woke up and was hungry so I went to make myself a salad and remembered an amazing Seafood Cobb Salad that I had at Chadwick's in Old Town a few weeks ago.

And what made it so amazing was the dressing. I decided it was some sort of Pesto-job, so I whisked some extra olive oil and some rice vinegar (wtsm) with some store bought pesto and voila! It was perfect. Who doesn't love pesto? It just makes sense.

I drizzled it over a salad of romaine, corn, black beans, green onions, carrots, Turkish feta and tuna.

And then I had another helping.

And then I roasted a spaghetti squash and my usual smorgasbord of veggies and set myself up for some lunch success for a week.

And then I decided to try making Challah Bread with Rosh Hashanah just around the bend. 

I followed Smitten Kitchen's recipe and attempted the six-braided challah... 

and I definitely recommend using a YouTube video to learn how to weave these strands into a loaf of bread. Smitten Kitchen gives really good directions, but I'm more of a visual learner.

I made one long loaf...

and one round loaf (you simply braid a long loaf and connect the ends)

The thing about the dough is that you let it proof three different times and by the end of the process, I was getting a little impatient, so I gave it the ol' "it's good enough!" and stuck it in the oven.

I should have definitely let it proof more.

Meh, you live and you learn.

So basically all I did today was sleep, make food, and eat. Oh, I also wrote this blog post.

Yeah... I'm going to need another day off to make up for the one I wasted today.