I Love You So, I Always Will

Red bell peppers are most often ridiculously high in price down at the PathMark dontchaknow. $4.99 a lb. And you notice, they're super heavy. I used to believe it was silly to pay higher. I'd just as well buy a pound of the green and get like 4. I arrived late to the red bell pepper party. I never truly appreciated them until last year when I added them to this amazing pork stew. Now I'm absolutely crazy for them. They're sweet, they have tons of flavor and they actually improve and change the taste of soups and sauces that normally house green bell pepper. Just the art of allowing them to ripen and develop that added sweetness makes all the difference. Don't get me wrong though, I still love green bell pepper and couldn't live without them in many dishes.

These simple scrambled eggs with sauteed sliced red bell peppers were the cat's meow with a smathering of my bright green roasted tomatillo sauce for added color and vavoom! I still won't pay full price but let these babies go on sale and I will be there with bells on!

Let the Sunshine, Let the Sunshine In

Poached eggs over wheat English muffins and turkey bacon, side of zucchini. Nothing new to see here for breakfast today but finally we're seeing some new buds on the trees and beautiful flower boxes going up. People are replacing the thawed dog poop and garbage out of their sidewalk planters with daffodils and tulips. I'd say that was a good sign.

I keep wanting to write 'spring is finally here' but to be honest, it smells and feels much more like November to me. Like its ready to start getting colder and we still have the sun but you want to run home and put on a warm sweater. Not all of the trees bloomed, like the one right outside my window. Instead its going into some sort of droopy in-between leaf stage. Where its supposed to go from pink flowerettes to maroon leaves, it skipped all of that and now has these fall colored orangy brown things. And its really crisp out, not melty sunny like spring can be. Yeah, I'm going on record to say its weird out! Is the weather changing in stranger ways then even I could ever imagine???