Monthly Archive for May 2009
gloriously green
It worked! It really, really worked. All my whining and locavorism lapses last week did the trick: they ushered in spring. Real spring. Sunshine, warmth, green. And allergies, lots of those. If I knew that it would be that easy to bring an end to last week’s persistent, relentless gloom and grey, I would’ve been making strawberry-rhubarb crisp, pie, crumble and the like in February. Really, I would have.
Now that spring finally seems like a reality—something I can see and feel—I only have eyes for green: not just those chartreuse mini-leaves budding on trees everywhere I look, but green on my plate too. We’ve been eating asparagus like it’s going out of style. And, with a little luck at the market, we’ve been eating fava beans too—just buttery and meaty enough for me to forget just how tedious the little buggers are to prepare.