Food for Thought

6:00pm

I have not made it to do my errands yet today and maybe that will not happen now. I was called into work this morning just as I was getting into blogging and stuff. That is ok. But it did not 'feel' like my day to be at work. I felt like I was out of step and in someone elses 'time'. I don't exactly know what that means.

And.....I promised myself that I was not going to 'blab' about things. I was only going to describe tiny small things of large consequence....small moments of peace, perhaps.

Someone came to my door just as I got back from my stint, yesterday that was actually. They gave me some vegetables that are a little worse for wear. I put them away carefully in the fridge and this morning set them beside the stove so that I would not forget that I was planning to 'do something' with them. Doing things with food is often a very enjoyable and compensatory activity.

So today was a good day to do that...I feel you are honouring a person when you 'do something' with their food. Either something they have made...or something they give to you. I learned that from Ben. Or perhaps I knew it before and was thrilled that he did that. Sometimes it makes for a lot of extra work. But it is basically a respectful thing to do.

I also got some red peppers, mushrooms I had frozen, some olives and part of the tomato that is left...and made two small pizzas....this is on top of the vegetable gifts.

Because the vegetables were actually not as described to me over the phone when offered and actually a little more worse for wear than I had expected, I have attempted some tomato sauce and a pot of borscht. They seem to be doing ok. I will let the borscht cool and run it though the blender I got this summer fo 2.00 at a garage sale near by.

If the sauce is good maybe I will give it back to the person as a demonstration of goodwill.