Various shades of green

Although the title of my previous post suggests the opposite, actually growing greens is very easy. It's the rest of the vegetables I'm worried about. Tonight we enjoyed the first harvest from my vegetable garden. Fresh greens. They smelled wonderful and felt really crispy. Not at all like the greens (Dutch: raapsteeltjes) I usually buy in the supermarket.

I made a risotto and added the greens about halfway through the cooking process.

It tasted really good.

Usually I make stamppot raapsteeltjes with greens (mashed potatoes with butter and milk, a bit of cheese, lots of pepper and finally the greens stirred through), but I didn't have enough greens for that now. Perhaps in a couple of weeks.

Not so green anymore is our Bengeltje. The old girl is 20 and still going strong. She looks good for her age doesn't she? She must have a very strong heart, because she's almost totally deaf and usually fast asleep, so if we want to get her attention we have to touch her. And every time that scares the hell out of her. She's also a bit wobbly on her legs sometimes, but hey, we'll be walking with a Zimmer frame if we've reached her age. Apparently 20 cat years equals about 95 human years. If we are lucky enough to be still walking by that time. Go Bengeltje!