Guest ScottS Posted January 13, 2019 Report Share Posted January 13, 2019 When I'm feeling especially POTSIE - which, for the longest while now, has been off and on every day - this (the attached) is my fall back dinner meal. In case you can't make things out, it's a couple of good sized bowls full of cooked veggies: asparagus, Brussel's sprouts, green beans, pickled beets (that I grew last summer in my garden) and spinach. For me, asparagus is a mainstay (due to POTS regularly screwing with/slowing down my gut motility). Sometimes I wonder if "this is me from here on". And then there are those times when I get a hankering, a craving for... I don't know. A steaming hot bowl of... normalcy. (That and a candied apple. Or a hot fudge sundae.) "Oh, she danced in the street with the guns all around herAll torn like a rag doll, barefoot in the rainAnd she sang like a child, toora-day toora-daddyOh, how will I ever be simple again She sat by the banks of the dirty gray riverAnd tried for a fish with a worm on a pinThere was nothing but fever and ghosts in the waterOh, how will I ever be simple again War was my love and my friend and companionAnd what did I care for the pretty and plainBut her smile was so clear and my heart was so troubledOh, how will I ever be simple again In her poor burned-out house I sat at her tableThe smell of her hair was like cornfields in MayAnd I wanted to weep and my eyes ached from tryingOh, how will I ever be simple again So graceful she moved through the dust and the ruinAnd happy she was in her dances and gamesOh, teach me to see with your innocent eyes, loveOh, how will I ever be simple againOh, how will I ever be simple again" Songwriter: Richard Thompson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted January 13, 2019 Report Share Posted January 13, 2019 I enjoyed this - thank you! When I get a glimpse of normalcy - and do not even remember my limitations for a moment - it is a gift. I remember 2 summers ago I played 2 minutes of badminton with my daughter. She loved it, we laughed so much and - however brief - we both felt happy and are still cherishing that memory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterSown Posted January 13, 2019 Report Share Posted January 13, 2019 Doesn't that look yum! I love cooking for health and for the fun of it. I do it as a form of therapy--having to measure and lay out everything, then put it together and cook it. Fun and healthy and the family doesn't object. I love your beets--they look pretty with the greens in the same bowl. Yum! And I like your plates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancer65 Posted January 13, 2019 Report Share Posted January 13, 2019 I love cooking ! That looks good , always nice to have pickles that you have made yourself taste so much better than bought IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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