Cheese!!

There are few things I enjoy more than eating. I like to read, I like movies, I like the internet...but I LOVE eating. One of my favorite things to do on weekends is to sort of picnic at home. I am not sure why I do not do it more often. Once I was watching Ina Garten on the Barefoot Contessa and I learned that there is a name to my kind of picnic. It is called a Ploughman's Lunch and it dates back to a long time ago. It is some meat, bread, and cheese on a tray. When you work out in the fields all day and you need a lunch that is hearty but quick. I like to think my weekends of laundry and dust bunny annihilation are very comparable to working in the fields all day.  

My lunch looked NOTHING like this :)

At my house I have a couple variations: wheat thins, cheddar, an apple, some other kind of cheese, then some more cheese, option two is cucumber, feta, tomatoes, wheat thins or some sort of bread. I call that one my quasi-Greek meal. I skip the meat part, I do not cook a lot of meat around here so there is not a lot left over for things like a ploughman's lunch. Sometimes I add some wine or juice but most often I just drink water. There is something I really like about cheese and crackers and water. I suppose I should make sure to point out that this is not an endorsement for wheat thins, I like a lot of crackers, but wheat thins with sharp cheddar cheese is just a winning combo. 

But I eat these things just off the cutting board on the floor in the living room. Well I cut them to eat, you know, I don't pre-cut things. I added an orange yesterday too. It makes me feel like I am camping or on vacation. To make things even better this weekend I still had the smokey smell in my jacket from the first bonfire of the season so the house had a certain campfire smell.