Spring Salad

Green Things...Good Eating

This weekend I had a serious craving for some green veggies.

Some home cooked green vegetables, vegetables cooked up in my own kitchen.

So I made a trip down to The Curb Market and picked up some vegetables.

Collard greens.

They were already cut up with stems removed. I got a whole bag for $5.43. Yes that is a tad bit pricey, but they saved me the time of cutting up greens. All I had to do is wash them and throw them in the crockpot.

I didn't cook them all. There was too much. (I should've bought the $3 bag). 

I also purchased some green beans.

The tips were removed from these. All I had to do was snap them in half.

I thought, with a price of $4.49, that they cost too much.

But they were good.

And would you believe that I didn't take final pictures of the cooked greens and beans?

Humph.

I guess I was too hungry. All of it is stacked away in the fridge now.

Here's an old photo of greens I cooked for New Years...

Good eating!

Very good.

Cookies for Friends

I like cookies.

I like to bake cookies.

But here's my problem: when I want cookies, I only want one or two cookies.

NOT a whole batch.

They would sit around the house so long that they would go stale and I would have to throw them out. Maybe there is a way to freeze them. Hmm...

Anyway, the order of the day is to take any excess cookies to work. Let's just say people are always eager to grab them.

One of my new cubicle mates liked some oatmeal raisin cranberry walnut cookies I made a couple of weeks ago.

That made him a good candidate for receiving my excess cookies.

I made my old boss a batch of regular oatmeal walnut cookies. She doesn't like raisins or cranberries. When she was a child, she thought the raisins were flies.

O_o.

I look at her crazy whenever she says that. You would think that such fears would disappear in adulthood, but apparently they don't.

So I made a dozen cookies for her. And I made a dozen for my cubicle mate E. And there were 3 cookies left over. Those were mine.

He was very happy.  He even posed for a picture.

For some reason these days, I like to write messages on the bag of cookies. As you can see above, I wrote on his bag.

Here it is up close.

I noticed his wife and I have the same name. All these years I've know him, he's never told me that. So if I leave him a note now, I will sign my name now and follow that up with, in parentheses, not your wife.

Ha Ha! I think it's funny. (Yes, it is my own brand of internal comedy. Some things are funny just to me, you see).

I hope they made his day great.

The big smile and the big hug he gave me made me think that it did!