Dinner Blog

I left work smelling like a walking Bath and Body Works vendor. I had been doing floor sets until midnight and my toes were blistered red from the pointed shoes I was wearing. My friend had a gift card for Wendy's, so we quickly drove to the drive-thru to eat our well deserved meal. Unfortunately, they were closed, forcing us to go to the grease house of McDonalds. Just by ordering the food I could feel grease drip from my tongue. When the oversized, grumpy cashier handed us our burgers at the last window, we pulled into the first parking space to eat. Despite the pools of grease in my palms, we ate every last bite as if we had been deprived for months. We drove home full, but feeling disgusted with ourselves that we had stooped to the fatty, nasty fast food chain we avoided the most.
To make us feel better and relieve the McDonalds aftertaste, my friend and I made salted lassis, a drink my co-worker Swati taught me to make. I mixed creamy, plain yogurt with two parts water before adding a little salt. To this concoction, I added toasted ground cumin. The cold, thick consistency of the yogurt softened by chilled filtered water refreshed our bodies while we were simultaneously awakened by the warm, comforting taste of the cumin. We went through an entire container of yogurt before we realized it.The next morning, we went to WalMart first thing to pick up some more.