What An Afternoon!/ Finally, Another Blog

October 15, 2012. 

This morning, my very helpful daughter-in-law brought me home from my appointment with the eye doctor, and then left to go home. I wrote a short email to inform my family about the results, but didn't want to write anything more. My eyes were still quite dilated and uncomfortable. 

I took a nice Power Nap on the love seat, very comfortable for a short nap, and I slept for twenty-three minutes! I must have been very tired. 

Then I got up, and thought again about those three turnips with greens attached. I would soak the turnip leaves because they were rather limp. I wanted to see if they would perk up in the cool water, and desired to cook them today. Voila, amazingly, they did perk up. I used the stems, also, cutting them in 1/2 inch lengths, and cooked the stems separately, to see if they would taste all right. Of course, they did taste good, because I had added some chopped onion, and a tad of brown sugar to them. 

I then cut up all the leaves and the more tender parts of the stems, and sauteed them in some olive oil with chopped onion and minced garlic. I looked up a few recipes for turnip greens, to get some ideas. There were enough leaves to use the larger frying pan. Then I wanted to cook a turnip and a potato with the cooking leaves, so I did that -- peeled the turnip and left the red potato unpeeled, cut them both into inch-or-so sticks, and cooked them with the leaves. Now, here is where this adventure takes a turn. 

I was wondering if I could use some turmeric with them, looked it up on the internet, and yes, turmeric would be fine, PLUS, if one wanted it, curry would be invited, also. So of course, I put them both in the mix. Thinking that cayenne pepper might be welcome, I added a couple of dashes of that, too. I didn't want it to be dry, nor swimming in liquid, so I added a bit of water from time to time as the liquid cooked away. After a time, it was ready to taste. Delicious...  

This kind of dish is similar to Indian poriyal, but not authentic, as I altered it somewhat. To me, it is quite tasty. 

The green peppers in the fridge caught my eye. I've been wanting to make some stuffed peppers, and today would be the day, as long as I am in the kitchen, I thought. 

The rice boiled, the ground meat thawed out, the onion was chopped, and an egg was added to my recipe. It is time-consuming, but I didn't mind, as I was on a roll, as they say. The peppers were then stuffed, and baked in the oven for two hours. 

The afternoon was full of activity in the kitchen, and was quite satisfying to me. Now this evening will be movie evening in my little abode. A happy day...

September and October have been so busy that I've had to forego some of my favorite projects / pastimes. I felt so neglectful of my blog. If you have been looking forward to reading them, I apologize. If not, 'nem-mine...'

I'll see you at the Corner Post...