May, lentils and soup

Beautiful sunny day, cool enough to walk, warm enough to sit outside and read. No biting insects. Yet.

Spied on my walk, very luxuriant this year

Considered unlucky where I grew up, never to be brought into the house, too close to the other world of fairies and danger.

And today was otherwise a frenzy of cooking. Made vegetable stock, then used it for celery, collard green, red lentil and cannellini bean soup. 

And at the same time, why not overdo it when you can, I organized the makings of red lentil croquettes, to go with soup, when I make them, maybe fried, maybe baked, when I decide.

I was a bit tired after this, looked at the clock and realized I'd been on my feet for about three hours, so after walking and loafing on the deck, I had the last of the local strawberries with a bowl of the latest yogurt.

Sprinkle of raw cane sugar. The texture of this batch is really good. I fermented it for 24 hours, so I think that's what I'll do from now on.

I ordered my Misfits box this afternoon, strawberries at half the local price (!). 

I expect everyone who tried it got the puzzle, judging from the great clues, an art form in themselves. Yes, it's

ARMCHAIR

suitable for Saturday, whether or not you have a long weekend

Happy day everyone, cook if you want, don't if you don't. The kitchen police are off duty today