A dish-drainer’s worth of roots and greens from Alameda Natural Grocery.  We’ll be talking ’bout those two bunches of parsley today (they’re in the upper left corner). The other veg include peacock kale (upper right), black radish (center), and puntarella (lower right corner).  That’s slices of tofu on the cutting board – I made ’em into a tofu salad, but more on that in another post …

I’m sure you know by now that I like to cook, and that I like to make sure that the Mister and I get enough veggies down our gullets.  Having different options on hand keeps things interesting, so I try to pick up an assortment of vegetables on marketing day.  This week’s batch of vegetables includes some long-keepers (uncut, the red cabbage will last well into next week), some eat-sooner-rather-than-later options (the puntarella, which we’ll eat tomorrow night as a salad with whatever the Mister prepares for supper), and some basic staples (parsley and some onions).  As you can imagine, it takes a good little bit of time on marketing day to purchase, clean and carefully store that week’s vegetables, but that’s time well spent to in my book.

“Well,” you say, “that’s all very nice for you, but I don’t have time to purchase, clean and carefully store vegetables.”  Worse yet, you say, the vegetables that you do buy get tossed into the back of your fridge and ignored until they turn into grey, slimy puddles of yuck.  Continue reading →

My pets – Oh, it’s been too long since last I posted, really it has been.  And as long as it’s been since I last posted, I’m afraid you’ll have to wait a few more days for a decent post.  But perhaps this photo will tide you over until then?  Why, I’m sure it will!  Look at the pretty and come on back in a few days for a decent post, won’t you?  – yr little munakins

I added yellow stamens to the burlap flowers.

Shall we compare the final version of the wreath to the earliest version? Oh, do let’s!

The wreath, as it appears now.  Along with the yellow stamens, I added a few more small flowers, and all of the larger flowers now have three layers.

The same wreath, as it appeared last November.  The leather leaves are no longer on the wreath (except for the one at the top of the wreath).  When autumn rolls around this year I think I’ll add the leather leaves back, but this time in a greater abundance …