Monday morning I sleep until I want to wake up. I make strong black tea with honey and sometimes cream, jump back in bed light up a joint and check the internet. I usually wake up with music in my head and will go to iTunes and start working on my Wed playlist. I grab music from everywhere but iTunes to check new music. I work on my playlist for two days but I’ve been compiling possible tunes all week. Because it’s new music to me I listen to the same stuff over again to become acquainted with it.
Then I start to cook. Every week on Wed I get a big bag of organic vegetables from a local farm. It’s exciting wondering what I will get each week but then there is the dilemma of what to do with them. I am not a good cook or an exciting cook as a matter of fact it’s surprising for how long I have been on planet earth what a dull cook I am, but I keep trying. I do not come from a line of good cooks, my mother’s signature dish was called “The Mess.’ I think that says it all.
Here is an example of what I might get in my box of veggies. Delicata squash, rainbow chard, golden beets, leeks, zucchini, parsnips, cauliflower. Sounds great right? But what the hell do you do with it? Right now I have cauliflower soup on the stove with leeks, potatoes,, celery and pear. I just pulled out of the oven my version of quiche with cabbage, Swiss chard, potatoes, leeks, and cheese made with eggs from our generous chickens. It has been such a learning experience for me to work with many vegetables that if I was at the super market I would walk right past. Oh and my other challenge to myself is use the veggies I have not to go buy something at the store. I have learned how to cook collard greens and they are good.
The Buzzy Donahue Show 