Wilting Greens
Unlike last Tuesday, my kitchen really wasn’t hopping with creations. I didn’t feel like cooking at all really but I wanted to make sure I had some things to bring to school today. I had another piece of cornbread for breakfast after some coffee. I’m sure you know what it looks like by now.
I will show you an odd combination that I came up with.
This right here is some rice pasta, kale, chicken mixed with some masala simmer sauce and topped with some cheese. I had some sauce leftover after making the chicken and not having enough left over to make my usual vegetable dish. But what really is important is the kale. I often buy HUGE bunches and use them for raw kale salads and kale crisp experiments in the dehydrator but there comes a time where it starts to look weird and begins to smell like an unchanged diaper. In other words . . . its starting to turn.
Whenever this happens I use a simple solution to make sure Im not throwing it in the trash. I will take some hot pasta, rice or beans with a warm sauce and add it right on top and stir to gently wilt. This adds amazing nutrition to any dish and also minimizes waste. What I like is that you can also do this with spinach, collards, chard, cabbage etc. I wouldn’t recommend doing this with lettuce as its to watery and cant really withstand heat.
In other news. I finally got a phone! If you know me personally, you would know that my sad phone that I have had since 2006 started to channel aliens regularly (aka screen went wacky). I debated back and fourth whether to switch providers because Verizon is so expensive. We ended up both going on the same plan which will end up saving us each $20 per month.
I know its not a smart phone or anything cool like that, but I already have an iPad and pay $25 per month on a data plan, so there is no need to have ANOTHER electronic burning a hole in my wallet. It’ll do just fine.
I’m actually in the city early today to make cookies for the open house tonight at NGI. I remember eating them when I went to the open house which solidified my decision to enroll there, so its cool to see things come full circle!
After, we have our first improv class. I love creating meals out of things I have as you can see above so this should be fun!
Do you spend too much on your cell phone plan? What do you do with food that’s about to go bad? Toss or create?
I Believe In REAL Books
It seems there has been a recent spur of posts about a look into peoples relationships with their money and I LOVE reading about them. If you missed mine, click HERE.
The main philosophy about the physical money that I gained was to Spend On What You Believe In. Ever since this jumped into my conscious, I’ve been taking a long hard look at what I spend my money on and why . . .
Its no secret that books, magazines and newspapers have taken on a different form in the past decade. Our digital world produces digital ways to find out what’s going on in the world whether its to find out what celebrity died, what the latest news is on the wars in the world or just to curl up and read a mindless novel. Through kindles, nooks, iPads, high-tech phones and the good ole internet . . . its clear that information on paper is dying.
Of course I can relate to this phenomenon. It saves trees, it saves room and it gives you the chance to have all the information of the world right at your fingertips (literally). I’ll admit, one of the coolest things I thought when I received an iPad was that I was able to download the Kindle for FREE. I started reading books this way and rarely set foot in book stores anymore. Nope, I curled up on my bed or on the train with a bright light staring in my face swiping page by page with one finger as my eyesight got worse.
Its just not the same!
Ask my Dad, I’ve always been a paper person (says the blogger). In fact, my first ever job was at Staples where I had unlimited access to all the office stationary you could imagine! When all of these high tech phones and palm pilots rose to fame, I held strong with my pen, planner and notebook collection and never turned back.
This part of myself carried over to books and its time to own it.
-When it comes to books . . . I like to purchase BOOKS.
-You know, the ones that have pages, paper and pretty pictures?
-I like the sound when you turn a page.
-I love being able to see how far you’ve come and how much longer you have left to go.
-I love walking into a bookstore and smelling the new paper with a hint of faint coffee from the little shops within.
-I enjoy the search of a book, the reward of finding the perfect one and getting excited to sit down, read it in my hands and learn something new.
-I like that people can SEE the cover of what I read as it generates discussion and lets someone know what I ‘m interested in, even if they don’t know me.
-I like how you are able to share a book with someone if they want to borrow it.
Technology obviously has its place in my life. And yes, there are times where I will buy a book digitally but for the most part, they are going to stay as the actual thing that they are and always were because I believe . . .
REAL Books Reign Supreme
Where are you in the digital vs real book dilemma?
