The last vegetables from her garden…festively
Aren’t we lucky to have such a long growing season here in the Tidewater area of Virginia? My friends are such a blessing to me. Look at this basket of vegetables, looking very holly jolly and Christmas-y in red and green. I made potato leek soup from that basket and used the green peppers in baked ziti that I brought to the civic league meeting last night. And I still have some vegetables left over!
I always get creative when my mother or a friend blesses me with something from the store. They often give me things I don’t ordinarily buy, like leeks in Nancy’s case or citron in my mother’s. That citron looks like some crazy thing from another planet, but it smelled exotically wonderful and tasted even better used with a chicken recipe.
The unusual items get my creative juices flowing. This makes me think that I should be more adventurous at the grocery store and buy my own unusual items from time to time.
We all have ruts of thinking, ruts in cooking, and ruts in our routine. So shake it up. Buy something new to try like parsnips or garam masala or a different type of flavored coffee. Mix up your Bible reading and devotional time. I had my devotions outside today, because the temperature is in the 70’s. God makes all things new again, but we can cooperate, get with His program, and try something out of the usual routine.
