Nesting

 

‘The most important thing is to express your true nature in the simplest, most adequate way, and to appreciate it in the smallest exisistence”~From Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Shunryu Suzuki

 

 

 Hello, sweet friend…💕

 

 

I’ve had a good week. How about you?

 

 

I actually went on a little get-away for part of the week…

 

 

A spontaneous escape…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

makes for the best adventures.

 

 

Upon returning home I settled back into the usual nesting thing.

 

 

Purchased a new set of sheets…

 

 

Lovely pillow cases

 

 

and a different mattress for the daybed

 

 

which sits in the loft.

 

 

A moment of time was spent freshening up a window box

 

 

Before I knew it the week had flown by.

does this ever happen to you?

anyway…

 

 

Right now I’m thinking that if I could choose the best moment of the week it would have to be the afternoon Joe surprised me with a meal he whipped up while I was resting.

 

 

Joe’s Spaghetti ala 🥦 broccoli

directions as told by Joe👩‍🍳

(my husband has a great sence of humor)

Joe: “Hello this is Joe, Marcia’s husband.  I’m very happy to share with you how I prepare spaghetti ala broccoli. First I got two pots… a small and the other a large or medium… and filled those with water. In the smaller pan I just put perhaps about an inch and a half of water. The big pot is for the pasta so I filled that about halfway and I put a little bit of the kosher salt in both of them so that it absorbs into the pasta and into the florettes of broccoli. I wait for a while until the water starts to boil and then I put in the pasta. Next I put the florettes of broccoli…slowly boil so I don’t want to over-boil the broccoli… and then in the meantime as I am monitoring the pasta and the broccoli I prepare a small dish of butter and olive oil that I’m going to heat and pour over when the pasta is ready. When it looks like the broccoli is ready…I drain in a colander the pasta and put that on a plate then I followed up by then draining.  After I drained the broccoli I put that on top of the pasta on the plate and then at this time I have warmed the small dish with the butter and olive oil and then I pour that over the mixture.

and…

served it to my happy adoring wife.”

 

 

💕

 

 

Something tells me…

that…

theres been some crazy nesting going on around here.

(P.S. My husband told me that perhaps next time we’ll have broccoli chicken ala spaghetti.)😉