Gah, yogurt and sour cream are impossible to photograph. They always just blow out the entire image. I tried doing the selective tuning thing to tone down the brightness, but that just made it look gray, which is hardly appetizing. What do real photographers do when they don’t want their yogurt blobs to blind their viewers? I’m stumped.

But anyway, this is gonna be pretty tasty. My wife and I made the beer-and-lemon-braised carrots and beets last night, which we had with broiled corn on the cob (so dang good) and cucumber-avocado-tomato salad, the remnants of which I was able to just fit into my smaller Monbento cup (I just ordered another one, along with a smaller sauce container and the Monbento cookbook, which I’m really excited about!). My wife is not a fan of lettuce, which is why I’ve been trying to take our weekly CSA lettuce allotment in my lunch as often as possible. I think lettuce is nice enough, but I have to say it’s hard to improve on a plain, unadorned cucumber-avocado-tomato salad, lightly marinated in a balsamic vinaigrette.