Month: November 2018

Poke

Two House Sparrows poke among landscape rocks for sunflower seeds.

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Never

I have never seen such an exquisite snowflake as this one, on Achilles’ ear. Unfortunately for you, my reader, he moved a fraction of a second before the shutter tripped.

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Furscape

There are landscapes, seascapes, skyscapes, cityscapes. Here is a furscape. Achilles’ fur, close up.

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Fall colours of blue, brown, and white . . .

. . . will soon become winter’s blue and white.

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And that’s fine. I am not sad about winters’ approach . . . I have no control over the weather or climate. It’s better, healthier, to accept what will be.

It looks like . . .

. . . Achilles is pondering life, the universe, and everything. Actually he is juuuust beginning a head shake.

On the other hand, perhaps  . . .

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Whoa

I crouched down to capture Fitzi clutching a very large stick in his jaws. He raced at me, I clicked the shutter button, the exposure meter had to compute before tripping the shutter, then Fitzi leapt at me.

Whoa. Darth Fitzi.

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No photo tonight . . .

. . . instead, a recipe.

1-2 tablespoons olive oil

1 tsp garlic salt

1 tsp chili powder

1/2 tsp ground black pepper

1/2 tsp ground cumin

1/4 tsp cardamom powder

1 head cauliflower (2 lbs or so) chopped into bite size florets

  1. Preheat oven to 350F.
  2. Combine oil and spices into large bowl and mix well.
  3. Add cauliflower and stir thoroughly to coat the cauliflower.
  4. Turn onto large roasting pan and arrange evenly.
  5. Bake for 20 minutes, stirring or shaking 2 or 3 times.
  6. Enjoy as a side dish, snack, or appetizer.

Modified from a recipe in the book Serving Up the Harvest by Andrea Chesman.

 

Additions

Made a beef stew today. Browned the meat, added onions and garlic, tomatoes, bouillon, thyme. While it baked in the oven in the Dutch oven, chopped up potatoes and carrots. The purple carrots at the upper edge of the cutting board are courtesy of our local organic farmer and our subscription to the winter [vegetable] box program.

The stew is not too bad.

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