Ok, so it’s been forever since I’ve posted. I could sit here and give you a hundred reasons why I haven’t but I’m not going to. I’m only going to say that this winter has been very mild, in fact it is Spring here in California’s Central Valley and has been for over a month. I have Spring fever so bad that I can hardly get anything done that doesn’t have to do with fiddling around outside and since blogging and cooking are indoor activities they are both down the list of fun things to do, at least to my thinking lately. But as sometimes happens, guilt shows up and I start to rethink my priorities. A very nice email from a blogging friend in Texas, Jack Mathews of Sage to Meadow, recently arrived. It was Jack’s choices for his 2011 Prairie Sagebrush Awards for blogging. The award recognizes bloggers Jack follows for their excellence in writing, photography and art on the blog. He included Anniespickns. That heated up the guilt. An award for blogging should be given to those who blog and that hasn’t been me lately. It was also a nice reminder to myself that I do miss the writing, the research and discovery and I miss interacting with you, my readers.
So as I started to think about dinner tonight a post was born.
Monday’s Two-fer
Sometimes its just time to gather the leftover this-n-thats from the fridge and either toss em or get creative. Tonight was one of those times. Luckily the this-n-thats were worth saving so I got creative. I sliced the handful of Brussels sprouts, about the same amount of crimini mushrooms; some pieces of fried bacon along with half an onion then added a few cloves from some baked garlic. First I fried the mushrooms, next the onion, then the sliced Brussels sprouts. Chop the bacon and garlic and toss with the other ingredients and there you have it. I had a little brown rice that I warmed up and served with this. That’s what you call a two-fer, clean fridge and full tummy.
There was even enough natural light coming in the kitchen window to shoot a quick photo.
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Congrats on being selected for the Prairie Sage Award. You deserve it.
Man, I wish you lived around the corner so I could come over to your house for dinner. This sounds beyond delicious.
Closin’ down my computer for the night, after reading your post here, just had to start ‘er back up to say – Yum-my! Tis a great combo, inspired by makin’ do. Love it a lot! (Will be back to read your Prairie Sage Award post soon – congratulations!!)
congratulations!
Jack’s a great guy. I love reading his posts.