Then it occurred to me: what if her Thermos food jar is BPA lined?

Phew! My FUNtainer Thermos food jar is BPA free.

Good news: it’s not. I just got an email from a Thermos spokesperson I found on their website stating “Our FUNtainer line of food jars and beverage bottles has always been BPA-free, and continues to be as well.”

I’m so glad!

Now I just need to perfect my soup recipe. I’m trying to copy my daughter’s favorite choice from the now-on-my-boycott-list Hain line of Imagine soups: tomato-based broth, meatballs, navy beans, orzo.

My first attempt bears some similarities, she says, but that’s about as far as she was willing to go. Tough customer.

Back to the ol’ cutting board . . .

But I’m well past the point of boredom with our diet — and a few days ago, I found myself picking up a celery root.

And then, this morning, a package of D’artagnan wild boar sage sausages.

I didn’t even know I was going to pair them until a few minutes after I’d put the sausage into my basket — but that’s exactly what I did, and it turned into an amazing meal.

And simple. I peeled the celery root, diced it pretty small, then sauteed it in butter until it was tender and lightly browned. It couldn’t have taken more than 15 minutes or so. Added a splash of sherry vinegar, salt, pepper, and chopped flat leaf parsley. Meanwhile I’d fried the sausages and fixed a green salad.

The combination was outrageously good — the gamey, spicey sausage with the sweet, buttery celery root. But it got better — I’d also picked up a bottle of Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Fleurie on my way home from Wegman’s. I was about halfway through my meal when it flashed through my mind that the wine would be the third perfect element.

Now to recruit a dinner guest. Heh.

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