Different Side Dish

Image by Martin LaBar via Flickr

Thought I would share tonight's side dish from dinner. Fresh picked from my own yard. And this is the second season I have had this. It is different and yummy too!

Fried Yucca Petals

Ingredients

• 2 Fresh Tomatoes, Chopped
• 2 Medium Onions, Chopped
• 1 Tablespoon Butter
• Flower Stalk From Yucca Plant
• 1/2 Cup Water
• Salt And Pepper, To Taste

Directions

Pull flower petals from stalk and wash well. Do not use anything other than the petal itself! I had a large mixing bowl full of petals that when picked and washed came to about 4 cups.
Melt butter in skillet and add flower petals, onion and tomatoes.
Stir gently until onions are soft.
Add water and simmer until most liquid is gone.
Salt and pepper to taste.

Summer Showers for the Flowers

We had quite the gully washer around here last week.
Even Nessa and Dan went tornado chasing.
YEAH!

But the heavy rains sure did help.
Our grass is green, the air was cooler and oh all the wonderful flowers that have bloomed.

Now I can just take time to smell the flowers.

P.S. College Girl took this photo too!

Remembering One Who Has Past

I went to a funeral of a family friend this week. And I had mixed emotions as most do. I was sadden for his wife left here without her partner anymore. And I also was rejoiced that he was no longer in the pain he had been suffering. You know how hard it is to have your feelings sway back and forth in a troubling time.

My DH is the Commander of our local AmVets chapter. Our dear friend was also a member there too. So we needed to send flowers to the family from the AmVets. I started looking up what to do and came up with a dilemma. I could do a traditional basket of flowers like this and send a card. Sad thoughts for me is that the flowers do also wilt and die. So they are a temporary remembrance.

Or I could also send a plant instead. Many people like plants because they can keep them in memory of the person they have lost. I know I have done that myself. I enjoyed tending to the plant and talking to it as if my lost love could hear me.

But I also found out that you could send food baskets. I had not ever thought of that. And I like the idea of having something to sustain you while your at the point of not caring. After a funeral most people are not wanting to cook or even eat. But with fresh fruit right there it is possible they may use it to help them along.

I presented all the ideas to my DH and he chose a plant from the AmVets. But I also plan on sending a fruit basket to the house to help her along.

What do you do to remember people who have past? How do you express your condolences?

Valentine Dreaming

I was Valentine Dreaming.

Wondering what I would pick out if I was to receive a Surprise at the door?

I know we all say that we don't look for flowers.
But you feel so pampered when they arrive.
Knowing that your the only one that is loved so much by your own special person.

Also do we buy flowers for the men in our life?
If so, what kind?

All of this had me daydreaming.

So I skipped over to Valentine's Gifts.
I started to figure out what kind of flowers would I want.
If I was looking to describe myself would it be with roses, daisies or even a bird of paradise?

Am I a lil' bit traditional?
And would I want a living plant?
If so maybe these mini roses would do the trick.

Or do I just like all the goodies instead.
And a tower of candies with a cuddly teddy would do?

I think I could fall for this abundance of flowers.
I don't think I could count all the many flowers in this arrangement.
But they sure are spectacular.

Or a non conformist in the blue posies instead.
Of course, the lil huggy bear sure does do the trick too.

Who goes wrong with traditional red roses?
Especially if accompanied by Godiva chocolates.


I really like these but I think that I would like to have a surprise more.
To see what my honey does?
I am sure it won't be flowers.

But a girl can dream.

Well what would you pick out?
For who?
And what are your "love" day's traditions?