Making Friends with My Kitchen
Making Friends with My Kitchen
Originally uploaded by Deanna Sue. I've been reading Animal Vegetable Mineral by Barbara Kingsolver. It's all about eating food that is grown locally, by folks you know. How it changes your whole life.
I'm a little inspired.
It's more than just food, though. I think it's about abundance and happiness and friends and family.
Abundance. I've been thinking a lot about that lately. That my life is not very abundant, in the spiritual bountiful cornucopia of goodness sort of way. Not in the nice house nice car nice computer iPhone sort of way.
So, I decided to make friends with my kitchen, to drag my eyes away from the computer box in bedroom and the TV box in the TV room and the computer on my lap in the living room and cook a thing that was fresh and tasty and grown by people up the street.
I've not been on speaking terms with my kitchen for years. It's time to kiss and make up. Wednesday morning, I gathered some magnificent friends around me, and took a little field trip to the Boggy Creek Farm.
And tonight, when I got home, I made this lovely little meal. Organic okra and heirloom tomato with onions in olive oil. Salad of organic field greens, oriental cucumber, more of the luscious tomato.
OK, I fess up, the rice was from a box mix, but baby steps…
It was the best dinner I’ve made for myself in years. Sure beats the hell out of a couple of Morning Star Farms Corn Dogs and some string cheese.