Detour

My plans to include a couple of international cooking nights over the holidays took a bit of a nose-dive down the stairs on Saturday.  The resulting break in my foot and the related new footwear do not combine to make standing on my feet a very attractive option at the moment.  Hopefully this will improve as the weeks of recovery march on.  

So in the meantime, I have not been cooking extensively.  Still throwing some things together and significantly curtailed a dinner party to a Korean noodle stir-fry.  Since I stumbled on the recipe when looking for something easy, I did not even do sufficient research to determine if it was influenced by the North or the South.  So I'm not sure if this dinner really counts.  Given that we combined the noodles with a pre-mixed Asian slaw from the grocery store and cookies from the freezer, I'm pretty sure that when I have stopped feeling sorry for myself, I will discount this as a meal in the quest.

I am finding time to organize magazine recipes and knitting patterns.  And finally got my home access working for the office so I don't have to lug a laptop around with me.  I am also catching up on TV episodes on Netflix, re-watching sappy romance movies and reading.  

So, while I am really missing my walks, curling and general active-ness, I have at least found some distractions.  I just hope that I don't gain 20 pounds over the 6 weeks I'll be sitting on my butt!

Another thing I have had more time for is surfing in which I found a couple of good articles:

 - Bone Fracture Healing Explained.  Very interesting.  

 - How to Survive a Broken Foot .  I have already tried some made up reasons for my foot.  While skydiving (bad landing) and rappelling (banged my foot on a rock) are two that instantly came to mind, I also think hang gliding as a variation of the skydiving could work too.  There is the soccer injury but, while I have not played soccer since I was about 10, given the number of people who do, this might actually be believable and therefore not as entertaining.

So onward.  Five more weeks and counting.