In Theory....

In theory, I have time to write. Or clean. Or do laundry. Or make necessary phone calls. Or work in my garden, which desperately needs the attention. Or read. Or anything remotely constructive.

In theory. In practice, all my mental spoons have taken off without me, and I am doing nothing but internet surfing.

This really ticks me off.

Summertime....

And my herbs are in full leaf. There's a farm-stand about half a mile from our house, where I can get tomatoes, corn, green beans, etc picked that same morning. To get even fresher herbs, all I have to do is walk out onto my deck, since everything is in huge pots. End result is great yumminess.

Tonight I cut up small new potatoes and set them to start steaming while I trimmed green beans. The potatoes take about 15 minutes to steam, and the green beans about half that, so once the beans were ready I dumped them in on top of the half-cooked potatoes. Went outside and cut flat leaf parsley, sweet basil, lemon basil and garlic chives, ending up with about a handful total. Rinsed those and chopped them, dropping them into my serving bowl with about a tablespoon a good butter. Dropped cooked veggies on top, stirred to coat with the herbs and butter, and added one good grind of sea salt. Sprinkled on about a tablespoon of white wine vinegar and stirred again.

My mom had come in while I was cooking, wrinkled her nose, and announced that she didn't like green beans. I took it as a challenge.

She took seconds on the vegetables.