I\’m like the tortoise. I got a slow start yesterday morning. It was already 5:45 when I got up! Gee, what a slacker I am! I decided to skip the ride, and do other things.

I was a bit nervous about the weather. There was a tropical storm out in the Gulf (it\’s now a hurricane), and the forecast was for possible T-storms and heavy rain.

It was another day of work-from-home. By lunchtime, I was getting restless. I wanted a few things for some cooking projects, so I rode the hybrid to the grocery store less than a mile away. Wouldn\’t you know, that is when it rained quite hard.

When clock-out finally came at 4:30 pm, I plunged into cooking. Thinking about my hot dog concoctions got my mind onto trying something similar, but using cauliflower. After all, I had the cauliflower in the fridge, and it needed to be used up.

Chopping cauliflower, I must admit, is a messy job. The vegetable crumbles all over the place! I used a 28 oz can of tomatoes; I had to chop the tomatoes, too. Earlier in the day I had chopped the onion and celery; now I chopped some yellow bell pepper, and minced three cloves of garlic.

Once I tried to stir it all up in a pot, I saw that there wasn\’t enough liquid. I added a 15 oz can of tomato sauce to the mix; plus some white pepper, dry chimichurri, and salt. The name of my new invention: Chimiflower! When the chimiflower was finished cooking, I went out for a short ride on the road bike.

I\’m glad I did. I didn\’t know what the weather might be doing today; and besides, I\’m still like the tortoise. I got off to a slow start again!