I absolutely adore this idea of having our own blog. I adore the idea and I adore you for having the idea that checks off so many boxes on my Qualification for Adorable checklist. Nice work.
Today I had celery for lunch that was absolutely tasty. Full of taste. Which I think is rare for celery. Most of the time I think celery just tastes like fresh, crisp water - like iceberg lettuce except in an easier-to-eat package. (And not only easier, but more socially acceptable I think. If I saw someone walking down the hall at work taking a bite out of a wedge of iceberg lettuce I would definitely assume they were on a diet "kick" and imagine they are a bit insane - but it's not that way with a celery stick even though I imagine nutrition-wise they are quite identical. Sorry, sidebar.) But today's celery - or rather, the whole bunch I cut up to snack on this past Sunday - has a certain...flowery flavor - maybe herbal would be a better way to put it. Just a smidge peppery and an even smaller smidge salty. Maybe just a little bit like the plant had been spritzed with perfume when it was young. I try to think about how it might be the dirt from wherever the plant grew - and isn't that cool to wonder about the dirt that the vegetables you are eating grew in? Where was it and why does it taste like that? Dole actually has a farm finder website http://www.doleorganic.com/ where you can type in the code on your (organic) veggie and find out where it was grown. But this celery is not Dole - it's Roundy's...and it's not organic. Which brings me to what is maybe the icky side of this too...wait, why does this celery have a taste? I kind of like it, but maybe I shouldn't like it (?).
I have hopes that our blog will not be just random ramblings (like this), but I didn't want to start off with anything too deep. I kind of just feel like I got a really exceptional bunch of celery and I wanted to share that mini joy with you.
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