Suffering Succotash

Succotash is usually a corn and lima bean mixture and everyone probably has their own recipe for Succotash but mine starts with produce from my garden. I have a little urban garden where I grow flowers and vegetables organically. So, when I'm feeling like a little succotash I go outside and pick a zucchini or two and some tomatoes.

Then I chop them up and put them in my cast iron skillet with some olive oil and minced garlic. I add a couple tablespoons of butter to the mix and slowly heat them until the zucchini looks semi-translucent.

It is so EZ and even more yummy.

So You Want To Save The World...

If you have a savior complex, or even if you don't, check out Hands On Greater Portland. There are some great opportunities to help you help others.

Volunteering is a super-hero way to give back to your community. And, if you don't live in the Portland area, check out your local volunteering opportunities.

Hope you all have a super weekend.

Wonderful World of . . .flowers

Everyone should take time to Stop and Smell the Roses, um, Dill Weed.

Dill is really an edible herb and not a flower. But, if you let it go to seed, it is a pretty delicate blossom of yellow yumminess, plus the aroma that comes off this plant whenever you brush up against it, is sinfully delicious
Chocolate Cosmos is pretty but the thing I really like about this flower is the aroma. Yep, you guessed it: chocolate. Like candy for the eyes and nose, these little buds make you want to eat them right up. A great aroma therapy for a woman at that certain time of the month--and no needless calories ;)
Balloon Flowers
I think you can see why. The little blossoms billow up like a puffed up ball of air, right before they open into the beautiful flowers they are. I like to watch all the stages.

Answer to Word for Wedneday

Word: Quiescent

It means to be at rest, quiet or still.

If you want to read more, check it out here.

Word for Wednesday - a game for Writers

Word: Quiescent

Guess what it means

Put your guess in comments and then come back at 3:00 to see
if you were "write" or wrong.

I'll Cry If I Want To

It's my birthday and...

another year... and still no book on the shelves...(sigh)...

well, Leslie Gore made this video back in my day. The thing I love about those "good old days" was...well, look at the backup dancers. They look like real people. They don't look perfect or rail thin--they look like real women. Those were the days.

I don't want to be a Debbie Downer so I'm going to try to focus on the milestone...yet to achieve

and remember who I share my b-day with:

H.G. Wells, Larry Hagman, Bill Murray, Faith Hill & Riki Lake.

But, there's one person more important than all these celebs...

And I'm lucky to share more than my birthday with him ;)

Monday Movie Review - Resident Evil

I love movies in 3-D, even though I can't handle a lot of motion in movies. The Blair Witch made me sick - all that hopping and bobbing of the camera - but 3-D I can handle. And I love horror movies--always have. I remember watching Night of the Living Dead back in the 70's and it kept me awake all night. Ever since that day, I've loved zombie movies: 28 Days Later, Resident Evil (RE), Zombieland. I enjoyed them all and all for different reasons. That's why I wanted, and waited, to see Resident Evil-After Life in 3-D.

So, it might not be what your family thinks of as a great family film, but heck, if we were all the same, life would be boring.

So anyway, we headed off to the movies beneath gray cloudy skies that soon turned to cold Portland rain--perfect weather for a little zombie Apocalypse entertainment. So with a bucket of popcorn and an icee we sat huddled together in the dark theater to watch Alice come back to fight another day. And did she ever fight. That was my one complaint about the movie. She was a little too perfect--even for me. This was definitely not the best of the RE movies but still worth the $11.00 bucks--at matinee prices. It was $7.00 for the matinee price and $4.00 for the 3-D glasses, which we recycled afterward, in the handy receptacles outside the theater exit. I'm sure the theater will reuse the glasses - but what was I going to do with them? So we turned them back in. I'd rather be green.

Anyway, if you're a zombie movie fan like me, I think you'll like the show. If you see it, let me know.