i have returned home from an evening that began with the final preschool parents’ committee meeting for the year, and ended with several rounds on the sushi train. in between i bought — for twenty bucks in the sale racks of gleebooks — a heavy tome with a simple typographic cover, called, “vegetable love“.

it contains no pictures, and 750 recipes. o how i love vegetables!

why, this very afternoon i made a matching set of tartines, topped with a couple wedges of laughing cow and a bunch of asparagus and some green capsicum, grilled and seasoned. a selection of green vegetables makes me so happy. sometimes i can get five or six in a meal, but today, just two was enough to put a smile on my face.