After all, most people love roses or daisies,
even sweet peas for their beautiful sweet smell or lilacs for their heavy beauty or wild roses for their untamed beauty.
Not exact matches
I don't remember a
sweeter smell than those
sweet peas in the early
evening when mama sat in Annie's rocker out there by the
sweet peas.
Popular vegetables include corn, dried beans and
peas, chayote squash, artichokes, and
even sweet potatoes and eggplants.
Before you envy my parents having a child content to munch on spinach,
sweet potatoes,
peas, tomatoes, or other fresh produce procured in our family vegetable garden, they also lived through my angst - filled adolescent years, and I'm sure they'll remind you that it all
evens out in the end.
But the real thrill came when Stark would grab plants that I had never
even heard of before: pineapple weed, chickweed, mugwort, purple - flowered erodium (also called stork's bill), vetch (from the wild
pea family), mallow (a plant that, according to Stark, is high in calcium), and the highlight of the day: wild onions, purple - flowered and pleasantly
sweeter than your normal green onion.
You can also add extra veggies, such as
sweet corn, green
peas or
even some pre-soaked or canned beans.
From a young age we reward birthdays with
sweets, school achievements with meals out, good deeds with ice cream, and
even healthy eating with dessert (if you eat all 3 of your
peas, you can have a piece of cake...)
For the first three days of a sugar detox, Alpert recommends no sugar at all, not
even from fruits or starchy vegetables such as corn,
peas,
sweet potatoes, and butternut squash.
Since we're all on a healthy kick after eating
sweets during the holidays, I wanted to share my new favorite breakfast (or
even lunch) combo I've been whipping up courtesy of Susan of
Peas and Love.
I've recently seen a really nice food with some organic fruits and vegetables, «human grade» meats, a nice oil blend (olive, salmon and
evening primrose) and many other appealing ingredients, but when I looked at the ingredient list closely, I saw that salt ranked higher on the list than eggs, yeast supplement and any of the fruits and veggies (listed: fresh whole garlic, fresh whole
sweet peas, fresh whole
sweet potatoes, fresh whole carrots, fresh whole green apples)- that is pretty scary.
Even my husband occasionally asks «what's up with that blog couple adopting the little boy» so apparently I talk about y ’ all and
sweet pea all the time!