Smoked Salmon & Poached Egg

Day 322 Just finished some delish food, a split muffin with smoked salmon, poached egg, chives and pesto on each:



The original idea was for Eggs Benedict, but I have no Hollandaise Sauce. I then came across a recipe online involving a spoonful of pesto on top of poached egg, so I combined the two. The egg-poaching worked very well, I tipped the eggs into a good whirlpool and they held well, poached for four minutes which gave them a solid yolk. And the little towers didn't collapse:



Earlier this afternoon I went to visit my sister and baby Bean. Bean is three months old now, and smiles and gurgles and laughs a lot. akalfjslfjdlfjdljfsld she is so cute, I took lots of photos of her and only stopped when the batteries died on my camera <3 <3 <3

Poem: Blue

You may have seen this already on Twitter - a poem has been written to accompany a now-classic picture of Tracy Caldwell Dyson looking at the Earth from the cupola of the International Space Station.

View the full-size version here, thankfully not huge

If I were still of an age to have posters on my bedroom wall, I would totally want this. I can imagine, in years to come, astronauts saying they remember seeing this picture as children and thinking 'that could be me one day'. How awesome would that be? And I want to nominate the photo as the iconic image of 2010.