WOW! I am sitting right now in the backyard with the warm sun on my face and my little hound dog at my feet and it sure feels like SPRING! I haven’t exactly been hibernating all winter like a bear but today sure feels like waking up after a VERY long sleep!
These first days of warm weather are like medicine. Isn’t that always the way? They call it Spring Fever but really it’s just seeing something beautiful you have not seen in awhile that you have missed and responding with love, wonder and joy.
I often think how it is a shame that we so often forget that feeling. I know I struggle with it; life is hard but God is good (sounds like a country song), but if we really live like we know whose we are and what we have been given, then maybe we can hang on to the joyful feelings we have as new life Springs into being all around us.
This last week I have been shaking off the winter cobwebs – cleaning house – cooking – exercising more – breathing deeper. I have been digging up some healthy spring time recipes as well. We had this one the other night and I made a second batch because I can’t stop eating it. I have a thing for green beans these days; I guess that works well with the warm weather. So enjoy this Spring and hold onto it all the way through next winter and beyond!
1 – 16 oz. package of frozen French-cut green beans
½ cup finely chopped onion
¼ cup sliced ripe olives
¼ cup olive oil
2 tbs. cider vinegar or white vinegar
¾ tsp. dried tarragon
¼ tsp. dried basil
¼ tsp. salt
¼ tsp. pepper
1 clove garlic, minced
¼ cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
Sliced tomatoes
-Cook green beans according to package directions; drain. Plunge beans into ice water to stop cooking process. Drain and set aside.
– Combine onion and next 8 ingredients in a bowl; add beans, tossing to coat.
-Cover and chill 1 hour.
-Sprinkle beans with cheese (if you have not given cheese up for Lent.) Serve with tomatoes. I mixed sliced cherry tomatoes into the mixture and that was YUMMY!
By Leigh Sackett [email protected]
