Sunday night foodporn

[sabotabby]

Tonight's dinner. The salad was technically part of lunch as well.

I almost never make anything super-fancy just for myself these days—seriously, half my meals come out of a can—but fiddlehead season comes but once a year, and my mom brought me some, so I got to make some of these tasty-but-dangerous delights.

Here is a recipe for how to make fiddleheads.

It came out excellently, holy shit.

The Southwestern salad is my own recipe, more or less. Sauteéd jalapenos, avocados, grape tomatoes, cilantro, and walnuts. The dressing is olive oil, red wine vinegar, garlic, black pepper, and lime juice. 

Other delicious things I have made or participated in making this weekend: Homemade falafel balls, pear-walnut pie, and more of that avocado pasta that I am obsessed with at the moment.



















In other, related news, my apple tree is blossoming!

 

And Cocoa is looking extra-cute:

Comments

[numb3r_5ev3n]

The food looks delicious! And what a gorgeous cat!

[sabotabby]

It was pretty great.

She is so pretty that it's hard to do things like leave the house when she wants to snuggle.

[flowerfuck]

This is the kind of content I like to see :)

[sabotabby]

I try. :D

[lapinlunaire]

You have no idea how curious I am about fiddleheads. They look delicious.

Your garden and your cats are perfect. Cocoa looks exactly like a chocolate sculpture of a cat in that second picture <3

seriously, half my meals come out of a can

I'm not convinced that you're not a raccoon, typing away at a keyboard and wearing wigs to make people think you're totally a regular human adult and certainly not a raccoon, nope, not at all. It's ok, you can tell me, I'll still be your friend.

[sabotabby]

It's cute when she catloafs in the sun because she actually looks like a cocoa bean. But what am I saying, she's cute all the time.

We prefer to be called trash pandas. :)

So true story that happened this morning: I posted about the fiddleheads on Tumblr and an Australian friend was like, "wtf, you eat ferns in Canada?" I explained that yes, and it is dangerous enough that the government needs to post warnings on its website because people poisoning themselves with ferns is apparently that much of a problem. Admittedly that's weird. But then she posted something about buttering cats and I was like, "people in Australia butter their cats and you think we're weird for eating ferns?" And I guess we both learned a thing.

[lapinlunaire]

I 110% believe that she's cute all the time :3

Ah, sorry, my bad. I'll make sure to use the proper nomenclature for your species, then.

I knew people ate ferns (though I didn't know this was true of Canada) because of an anime I watched once where people ate these. They just sound delicious and I desperately want to eat ferns like a majestic dinosaur.

"people in Australia butter their cats and you think we're weird for eating ferns?"

People in Australia do WHAT

[sabotabby]

Ferns are so delicious. They're like greens but more delicate? I am a fan.

So I'm not sure if it's Australian people in general or she's originally from the UK so maybe it's a British thing, but when you either get a new cat or a new house with an existing cat, you put butter on their paws to make them take notice of the place and find their way back if they get lost. It chills them out and acclimatizes them to their new home. She has no idea if it works but her mom used to do it.

[franklanguage]

Australian people shouldn't own cats, period—or if they do, they shouldn't let them out. I hadn't been aware, however, that they plan to kill 2 million feral cats. That's wrongheaded and cruel.

It's because cats aren't native to Australia, and have an unfair advantage over native species like the bearded dragon and kangaroo rat.

I'm not making this up; of course, I've never let my cats out in New York City for obvious reasons—but people like my mother (when she was lucid, anyway) think it's "cruel" not to let cats out to chase and kill wildlife. Granted, people used to only get cats as mousers and never feed them just because they supposedly lived off the mice they caught, but those days are over. I'd never want my cat to kill and eat a mouse because of the poison my landlord might be putting out.

[sabotabby]

My neighbours think it's cruel to not let their cats out. One of their cats has already been hit by a car (though thankfully she's okay). I used to take Marinetti out on a leash, but both of the girls (having been former outdoor in one case, feral in another) are afraid of outside. Cars aside, there are raccoons in the neighbourhood, and dogs, and just why would I risk my kittens?

[dancingdragon3]

OMG, that all looks incredible! Especially the pie, yuum.

Aw, beautiful tree and cat :-)

Happy Birthday!!

[sabotabby]

The pie was excellent. Not as excellent as the cat, who is just fucking wonderful.

And thanks!