Recipe for a vegetable dish Esme ate tonight with me and said it was 'nice' - olive oil and 1/4 cup water bring to boil in a saucepan, add about two handfuls of frozen finely-chopped kale that I bought yesterday, a handful of yellow pepper, and a handful of onion, bring back to boil and saute, add a big dash of biryani masala spice, added about a tablespoon of butter on top of that to activate the spice, then about a half can of rinsed and drained canned cannellini beans (will use the other half tomorrow) and some seasoning salt and bring to a higher temp, stirring until the water reduces to a sauce consistency. Mark had made pork chops and potatoes already and I made this on the side.
I had bought these vegetables yesterday while out grocery shopping and said 'it was perhaps a pipe dream' to think about cooking something like this because Esme wouldn't eat it. Mark said, make it anyway - and put some on her plate. And then I would have made it, and not let the ingredients sit. Lately it feels like anything I want to make beyond the norm is just too much work, always on the run, getting propane, getting gas, getting necessity stuff and looking at the vegetables is sort of like 'yea, right.. dreaming'. But it was good. And I'm glad she at least said it was nice- didn't see her eat it but she said she did.
other veggie thing I made earlier in the week for us - that I know she did eat:
onion, orange pepper and frozen green peas, with kielbasa sausage and butter, served beside a packet of parmesan sauce noodles that also, I consider usually something she won't eat. But she looked at the pack and said 'I've had something like this before, maybe'.. so I made those together, while Mark made himself a hamburger.
It's been a week, off to bed, post office tomorrow
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