Left work early on Friday, my short-day and went grocery shopping. Yeah - that’s my idea of a good time on a beautiful Friday afternoon. I’m sick.

I was going to make some more of those mashed potatoes because I liked the other batch so much. Since the celery root at the grocery store looked so sad, I decided to try it with turnips and parsnips instead. Never had turnips or parsnips before. Parsnips look like white carrots. Parsnips are not white carrots. After boiling everything together, the pungent smell of the turnips and parsnips was overwhelming. Ended up picking out about half of those pieces and made the mashed roots just like last time. A couple of other things I did differently with good results was: added cayenne pepper (finally found some at Target!), and omitted the scallions. The cayenne gives it a bit of a kick. A good kick, if you like spicy.

I also made deviled eggs from a recipe I found off of Simply Recipes. I sort of incorporated other peoples ideas after reading everybody’s comments. I used sour cream instead of mayo (because I already had sour cream and not mayo), left out pepper, tobasco, and minced onion/shallot. Added cayenne pepper (because new found spices must be generously used in every recipe to fully appreciate the beauty of it), and dill relish.

Yum, never had these before either, but quite good. It’s hard to stop eating them… I may make myself sick with too many eggs. I’m such a glutton.