Saturday, April 22, 2017.
A Busy But Not Hectic Day.
What's the difference between a busy day and a hectic one? It's all in how you feel about your job. I very much like mine, even when I have many hours of work and a lot of running around in between tasks. On the latter days, I fall into my routines, which get jobs done more efficiently than any other way. So today I am at Mattina Bella, eating a combo breakfast (soft-scrambled eggs, bacon, and pancakes), asking at first for just one of the two pancakes that come with this deal. But it's so good I wind up asking for the second one.
I go on the air for three hours, and take a long walk and a nap after that. Dinner is at Tchoupstix for the first time in awhile. It's dominated by raw salmon and tuna with crisp little bits of peppery herbs throughout. Tchoupstix needs to reprint its menu so that it can be read.
I spend a lot of the evening pulling together my guide to the Jazz Festival's food. That begins this Friday, and it's one of the features that NOMenu readers like most.
And now I come out to diary time to say that on Tuesday afternoon, I have finished the Jazz Fest guide. It wasn't as time-consuming as such things usually are (they amount to a massive fact-checking and proofreading project). I only have a little typographical setting up and I'm done. It is in line to appear first thing tomorrow morning.
And that also explains the foreshortened Dining Diary for the weekend just past. I'll catch what little more there is to publish to day, return to normal, and see you at the Jazz Fest.
Tchoupstix. Covington: 69305 LA Hwy 21. 985-892-0852.
