Buckwheat Groats

I picked up some buckwheat groats from the bulk bins at Jimbo's.  Despite the "wheat" they are actually a fruit and are gluten-free.  I prepared them like the grits except I toasted them for a few with the sauteed aromatics before adding about 4 1/2 cups of water.  These also have roasted New Mexico chilies and grilled zucchini.  They are way more tender than I thought they'd be.  A good hearty breakfast.



Henry's on 3rd and J in Chula Vista is a great place to shop the bulk bins for cool grains and stuff.  It is full of vegan goodness and blows the North Park store away.  Ride your bike down there and enjoy the wildlife along the cool bike path.  Unless you drive everywhere you go, but then you probably hate this blog, in which case, thanks for reading it anyway and continue not posting comments.  Also, don't breed too much.

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Route 56 Bike Path

This was a pretty long ride of 65 miles.  Don't use the whole route-- I messed up coming down to the 8 and ended up way too far east and had to poke along Friars where I made some mistakes.  Convoy to Linda Vista is better.  I could have sucked it up and just climbed out of the valley on Texas but I was borderline bonked and headed for Old Town and down Kettner.

The 56 bike path is a little bumpy but pretty nice.  It starts at Carmel Valley Road and El Camino Real and goes east.  I bailed at Black Mountain Road but it keeps going.

Climbing up the mesa at Torrey Pines I got "one little, two little, three little Indians" stuck in my head.  Very annoying, but not as politically incorrect as you think.  I was actually dreaming of Padma Lakshmi.  Still potentially incorrect, but different.

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