I Don't Aways Reap What I Sow

Tonight for dinner I made Swiss chard for the first time. I thought it was odd that all these years we've grown Swiss chard I have never once eaten it! Today while harvesting for a Whole Foods order I decided to take a bunch of chard home with me and see what I could do. It turned out fabulous! Truth be known I didn't do much of the cooking- Brandon did most of it. He also took pictures of it while exclaiming how beautiful it was. First I diced an onion and added it to some olive oil (as a side note I was experimenting with one of our wedding gifts- a Le Creuset frying pan which I might add was pretty amazing). Brandon diced up the stems of the chard and tossed it in with my onions- the stems are always a disagreement with us. In the case of red or green kale, I think it's just as good to cook it all together, but he insists it's better to cook the stems first, add the leaves later. In this case, he's right! The result was a tender green with caramelized onions- sweet, not bitter and amazing!

While the chard cooked I threw some cauliflower (another vegetable I rarely eat) in some boiling water to steam. I went to the office to check my email and when I got back to the kitchen Brandon had taken the cauliflower out and grated some Colby cheese on top of it, making my once healthy cauliflower not so healthy. I'm not even sure where he got the cheese- we just got back from our honeymoon and our refrigerator is very empty and I haven't bartered for cheese at any of the farmers markets this week. He said he "found it in the back of the refrigerator" and when I balked at the amount he grated on top, he said, "But that's how Great Grandma Rose does it, I know it's good!" Well, alrighty, who's going to argue with Great Grandma Rose? I've met her, she's awesome, and turns out so is her way of cooking cauliflower-healthy or not we ate it all!
Tonight I learned several valuable lessons: I should reap what I sow more often and I should always say yes when my husband wants to help prepare our meal! While discussing dessert (we had Foxy Bakery's lemon pie) we discovered that neither one of us care for apple pie and prefer cake over pies in general unless it's lemon or cherry. You learn something every day- especially when you're a newly wed.
-Amy