Month 3 day 21: Sausage sandwiches and bulgur salad

Today I made:
Spiced French Toast, Every Day with Rachael Ray 2012
Italian Sausage-and-Fontina Mozzarella Biscuit Sandwiches, Food and Wine 2011
Tart and Tangy Bulgur Salad, Cooking Light 2012
in progress: Tres Leches cake for tomorrow

Today we started off with some French toast-- a different recipe than last time. This one had pumpkin pie-type spices, and I thought it was pretty good, maybe in part just because I let it soak in this time. We used some nice-looking rolls.

For lunch we just had some sandwiches, because we went to the Museum of Fine Arts' special floral weekend exhibit. Every year there is one weekend where a variety of flower arrangers pick specific pieces to interpret as a floral arrangement. They are usually a little far-fetched, but draw from the colors and lines and overall feel. Here is one of the more literal ones:

G said, "We're not here for the pieces of art, we're here for the pieces of work." People seemed to be on their worst behavior. One girl walked up to a piece with a camera, but right then a guy leaned in to look at it. She sarcastically said "thank you" (he didn't hear) and then waited glaring at him for 30 more seconds until he left. She snapped a picture and left, saying "...f-ing rude!" under her breath. Did she even look at the flowers? I guess if your mission was to take pictures of each arrangement you would be in a bad mood, because the place is huge. We saw about 1/4 after 3 hours. Then, in one of the gift shops, a worker started yelling at a woman who had opened up one of the drawers underneath a display (there was a lock on the drawer, but it was unlocked). Mind you she never once came out from behind the counter, even though she actually wasn't ringing people up (or doing anything?) but chose to be classy and just yell across the store so that everyone was staring at the poor girl who made the terrible decision to open a drawer :-P So people-watching was interesting today.

When we got home we took a long nap, so we went with a quick option. These sausage sandwiches were very good. It's basically just slices of Italian sausage with tomatoes, roasted bell pepper, and cheeses (we ran out of Fontina so we used mozzarella) inside of buttermilk biscuits. We skipped the olives and the pecorino cheese, which we now know is way too pungent for our tastes.

The bulgur salad was nice and fresh. We ran out of lime yesterday so used lemon juice instead, and I skipped the olives as always. I think the bulgur was a bit undercooked. The recipe called for 1 c bulgur +  1 c boiling water, but actually on the packaging it recommends 2 c water. I kind of tried to meet them in the middle, but it was still pretty al dente. Maybe that's how it's supposed to go? Anyway, I like bulgur-- it's nice and nutty. We have a bunch leftover from the vegetarian moussaka I made last month.