Potatoes O'Brien, Leftover Black-Eyed Peas

Yesterday, we had a 5p appointment at the birthing center, just down the road from Sage Cafe, a vegetarian Persian restaurant that we really like. I always get this reduced pomegranate - tempeh dish - it's great! We thought that we would take a try going there with our lovely 1-month-old baby. I was nervous that she might cry - we really don't want to impose and bother others. But our baby really doesn't cry much, mainly when she's hungry, and we fed her right after the appointment.

She did great and mostly slept! She started to cry twice, but we held her and she stopped. The restaurant staff treat us very well and have witnessed the pregnancy and even our stopping there for take-out the night that my wife's water broke, as it was getting late and we had to get home, get some rest, and then ended up not unexpectedly giving birth early the next morning. It's exciting that we have this window before the baby crawls to, to some extent, enjoy dining out and cultural events, with baby tagging along.

Tonight, I simply heated some black-eyed peas that we had picked up a few days ago at the temple where my parents had organized a dinner in our baby's honor. I also made potatoes O'Brien from a frozen mixture. We enjoyed eating black radish and turnip, as well as avocado and heirloom tomato.