Welcome The Sun
Garden Starts
It may be the middle of winter, but gardeners have to think a season or two ahead. January is the time to start seeds indoors for long growing, heat loving veggies such as tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant.
Lil Turnip is helping me scoop potting mix into my starter containers. Gardening with a two year old is fun, but requires a lot of guidance to make sure everything eds up where it’s supposed to.
We planted six varieties of tomatoes, two kinds of peppers, and one giant Iraqi eggplant. I was tired of having to pick 10 eggplants to make a meal. I wanted something hefty where one eggplant is big enough to really make something out of.
And now they are just starting to come up! Sprouts are so exciting! Another month or so and they will be in the ground!
Arts And Craps
Time for some Hanukkah crafts with my two year old! We made potato prints of a star of David and a dreidel.
Lil Turnip, the two year old in the house, had a good time dipping them in the pain and stamping them on the paper.
Honestly, she has a pretty short attention span, but it was great while it lasted. We made little gift bags to fill with Gelt cookies. Post to come!
Bountiful Baskets
I recently changed jobs and after years of working weekends I now have Saturdays off. This is exciting for lots of reasons, but one of them is Bountiful Baskets. Bountiful Baskets are affordable boxes of produce that feel a little bit like Chopped ingredient baskets because you never know what you’re going to get. I got up early to go pick up my basket and was greeted by this gorgeous sunrise.
Look at all this great produce!
This pan is overflowing, but it will cook down, right??
Roasty roasty!
The perspective is probably lost, but this is my largest mixing bowl full of washed and chopped lettuce. Actually, that’s not true, I have bigger mixing bowls.
French fries! The potatoes that Lil Turnip will eat!
Chopped up additions to the salad. The bottom one is hearts of palm. I had a can on hand and figured if I cut them up they’d be yummy add-ins for the salad.
Good stuff, all packaged up to eat for the week.
Oh, and this is what happens if you leave the bag of fruit sitting on the floor in reach of your toddler. Why eat one apple when you can take a bite out of each one?
Curried Garbanzo Beans With Greens And Naan
I’m a bean lover. I eat a ton of beans. If I’m hungry nothing quite satisfies me like beans. Curried garbanzo beans in the instant pot sounded like just the thing. Don’t forget to bloom your spices! I was so hungry and excited to eat that I forgot to take a picture of it all plaited up for dinner. So the last picture is the leftovers packed up for lunch. Delicious!
Radical Nurturance 