Don't You Know That You Are a Shooting Star

Cabbage is like the shy singer that needs to be coerced to take the stage but that girl can sing, yes she can! Let cabbage play the starring role in this one pot meal, she is ready to headline.  Cabbage, spinach, red onion, ground turkey, tomatoes and chick peas stir fried with soy, garlic, pepper flakes, ginger, rice vinegar, sesame oil and a bit of Hoisin sauce went in to make this a great bowl of food.  Eat it on it's own for a low-carb meal or serve it over brown rice.  

This can be made in one wok or giant skillet and aside from chopping vegetables, you just throw it all in the pot on high heat and keep stirring until its perfect.  The cabbage stays crispy and the flavors explode with the acidity of the tomato and the Asian kick of the ginger and Hoisin.

I've always wondered about the middle of Prospect Park where there allegedly lived a waterfall and woodsy area.  Actually, I believed this to be a 70's gay hotspot but what was it now after they took down the ugly fencing?  Opened, apparently and available for all to admire.  It's big enough where you can get creeped out by going off path and we even found this spooky area where a group was burning candles in a circle and who knows what else.  It was desolate enough for one of those machete wielding crazies to be lurking, so that was enough adventure for me. 

This park isn't that wide, so it was such a treat to enter a section that was shaded and had a little river and off the beaten path enough to feel you really discovered something new.  

We Belong Here, the sign says, so at least someone has validated our choice.  Actually, it probably isn't meant for us, the actual citizens of the city, but instead some group that is feeling oppressed and is comforted by a neon sign atop the Barclays Center subway station.

I'm comforted by a tiny waterfall in the park