What V does for F-U-N in the afternoon

Hitches a Ride



Slides

Swings & Sings

Some girls have all the fun.

Alert the talent agencies

So you've all seen her talent as a singer (see my July 2 post for the soon-to-be-released-on-a-major-label rendition of "The Cheese Song") - well now, it's time to reveal V's acting chops to the outside world.

She can sneeze:


She can cough:


She can even cry:


And ALL on CUE. Broadway, here she comes.

Note: She does NOT normally walk around wearing a bib all day. She was eating blueberries; we were about to go to Queenie's house; I was avoiding having to change her shirt for the 3rd time today.

We heart summer veggies

So T & I signed up for a thing called Papaspuds. Once a week we get a delivery of fresh, NC grown (mostly) organic produce. It has been great for inspiring me to cook after a couple of months of not wanting to cook at all.

Here's a recent delivery I thought was especially pretty:

Corn, rainbow chard, peppers, slicing tomatoes and plums

I am really enjoying having to search for recipes for things like rainbow chard. I am also enjoying the fact that this service lets me switch out items so I am not on my 8th week of cucumbers. :)

In addition to Papaspuds I have been making a concerted effort to go to the downtown farmers' market where the organic farmers gather once a week. Although some of them are a little scary, I do enjoy chatting with the farmers about heirloom tomatoes or weird things called sprite melons.

Here's a recent supper I prepared that we thought was delicious.

Butternut squash stuffed with faux-sausage and rice, oven roasted rosemary potatoes and an arugula, heirloom yellow tomatoes and goat cheese salad.

We are really working toward becoming total locavore nerds, mostly because it sounds hip and just being vegetarian is so 90s. We're so dedicated that we even bought greenish blueish eggs at the farmers' market from a man with a wonky eye and dirty fingernails. Now that says LOCAVORE! Bon appetit!