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Harmonic Inclination
If a sound wave is divided
again and again
the harmonic pitch rises, higher and higher, still…
on a diminishing curve.
Sometimes it feels like
My time is being divided and divided and divided
until it approaches “zero”…
Yet I take on something new
and here I am…
dividing again.
You never actually reach zero, I think, so, isn’t
there is always room for
one more
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until you’ve (almost) reached
∞
I think I’ve done a touch too much dividing of late
and my physical self hasn’t quite decided whether it should get sick or not.
So today I think I should let other people in…
so that some “undividing” can take place
and my “inner notes” can move back down the staff until I reach
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♥
Begin with a snow day…
And a pj day… my friend brought me these this morning.. what should I make?
Better still.. peel and tear each segment, let juice drip and run down hands and chin.
(All of that citrus should make me feel better?)
And look who stopped by my window as I sat writing this…
Alarmed by my dog’s barking he merely slowly turned and sauntered under a tree.
Maybe I should do that more often… hide under a tree?
Make my daughter a cup of coffee, practice making crema…
Make my friend a cup of tea..
Turn my kitchen into a flower shop…
Spend time with my mom…
♥
And share her recipe.. my new favorite roasted veggies
filled with carrots and sweet potatoes and honey
Now that’s better
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Honey Yams, Carrots and Potatoes
- 1 1/2 lbs white potatoes
- 1 1/2 lbs yams or sweet potatoes
- 5-6 carrots
- 1/2 cup onion diced
- 3-4 cloves garlic
- 3 tbsp butter or margarine
- 2 tbsp honey
- 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
- salt and freshly cracked pepper
- olive oil
- sesame seeds (black or white), toasted
- Preheat oven to 375° F.
- Slice potatoes and carrots horizontally into 1/2-3/4” thick “coins” and spread in a large, foil covered roasting pan.
- Meanwhile, splash a little garlic into a frying pan and cook the onions until browned, adding garlic near the end (so it doesn’t overcook and burn).
- Heat until melted, the butter, honey, Dijon mustard and salt and pepper either in a pan on the stove or in the microwave.
- Stir browned onion and garlic mixture into the potatoes. Then pour over the butter mixture and stir to evenly coat the potatoes. Roast for approximately 45 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the potatoes are browned and cooked through.
- Sprinkle with sesame seeds and stir to mix.
Yum! I will have to try this!
Smidge, I love the dishes you’ve served the roasted vegetables on! The black sesame seeds are a nice addition to the finished dish.
Such love, joy, beauty and comfort all around. Hoping you feel better very soon, Smidge. Xoxo
This sounds delicious! And I hope that you have a beautiful, restful day, all about you. 🙂
Thanks all… I think I’ve turned the corner 🙂 xoxo Smidge
What a wonderful day – it’s good to take it easy some days! Those potatoes look beautifully golden.
The photos of those oranges has really made me want one! Yum. 😀
Sounds like you could do with a cup of tea, yourself — perhaps in bed with a few of those tulips on a tray, cuddled up in something warm and looking out that snowy window.
Sharyn, that sounds absolutely perfect! I’m going to do that tomorrow! It seems my body has decided it is going to be sick.. So now I have to make sure it doesn’t last long!!
Please don’t get this bug dear. It sounds exactly like how mine started. Dive into those beautiful oranges. I agree, they might make you feel better. 🙂 I hope so.
You’re not feeling 100%, yet you give us a fabulous recipe. You’re so sweet! Thank you! And thank you for a gorgeous post 🙂
Thanks so much, Sarah.. Well.. It must be the same one.. Today is worse but oddly I’m in a better frame of mind? Now to eat a few of those oranges…
Mmmmmm, oranges always make me feel better 🙂
I loved this potatos… I should try, sounds so delicious. BUT but but your white beauty, your lovely dog is the best… I loved the photograph so much. I can come to have a cup of tea with my apricot cake to you dear Barbara, I love your kitchen. Thank you, have a nice weekend, with my love, nia
I know… He is our beauty and boy does he love tea! Xoxo Smidge
Ms. Smidgen, you have no idea how much I needed to read your post today! Thanks for reminding me to take the time to recharge:)
Have a great weekend.
I’m glad if it could be of help.. We all need these reminders once in a while, eh? I hope you feel better soon as well! xo
Roasted vegetables…delicious. I like the sesame seeds on them. Great idea. Thanks!
Thank you:)
I hope today’s rest revived you. I like the sound of these honeyed roast veggies – I think I have most of the ingredients so I am going to try making them tonight. xo
You know, it did help.. I’ve got a cold today, but I feel much stronger and ready to take it on!! Hahaha!
Take good care of yourself….
loved the recipe, the photos, they all made me feel all warm inside….. a nice feeling…
PJ days are the best! And it sounds like yours might have refilled your bucket – I hope. 🙂 Yummy veggies, too.
Have a Great Weekend – thanks for sharing:)
Your posts are always so gorgeous and poetic. By the way, are you using a mypressi twist or something else to make the espresso?
Not a mypressi.. An elektra (birthday gift).. I love it. I haven’t seen the mypressi? It seems like the most important thing for good coffee is, well, good coffee, as in great beans ground fresh for each cup… Thanks, Joanne!
Glad to read that you’ve turned the corner, Smidge. This recipe is just my kind of dish. Really enjoy roasting each individually or together but I like that you’ve added honey. And I’ve got plenty of honey so this will be made sooner rather than later. Thanks!
Crazy, I thought I’d turned a corner and then my sore throat turned into a cold. Such is life… I’ll get better with more rest I’m certain! Thanks so much, John! xo
What a perfect snowy day – topped off by a recipe which has me craving something fierce 🙂
Delicious my friend!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Haha, loved that you’re craving “fiercely”.. Awesome! xo
Beautiful recipe but even more beautiful, all around feeling I get reading along with you!
I’m sooo glad! xoxo
Your cute little pup would blend right in without the jacket. Adorable! Those honey yams look fabulous too.
Yesterday he would have… Today all is melting and his little white coat has turned a paler shade of gray:)
Honey roasted? Sounds and looks amazing!
Thanks:)
Roasted veggies are great. I like to roast mine with a bit of maple sirup but honey and mustard sound like a very good combination. Jen
Maple Syrup would be delicious substituted in this!
lay all those oranges on a sheet then lie ON them and wriggle, it will be great. i am enchanted by these potatoes, I have honey!! I am definitely doing this next time and i am a roast potato fiend! thank you honey I mean smidge! c
Ahhh, hi there honey:) If I laid on them there would be a few minutes of awesome back massage followed by some artful squishing and smearing of oranges on the sheet. D’ya think I could frame it and sell it?? 🙂 xoxo Have a great evening (you’re probably already just waking up for your first night check!)
Oooo, what a wonderful way to roast your veggies…I love it! And as always, beautiful images and words that make me smile! 🙂
Smiling right back:)
Oh my, that pheasant is so beautiful!
He is so pretty and makes the funniest racket when he squawks!!
You have been awarded an award package because you deserve it my friend 🙂
Come check it out here: http://gobakeyourself.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/a-perfect-german-morning/
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Every-time you post flowers.. you always inspire me to go to the market and pick some up for myself :). And all this week I’ve been surprised by amazing recipes and this one is in that category. I never though to use honey on my potatoes or carrots.. but I think I will be doing this soon 🙂
Thanks so much, Kay.. Bunches and bunches of flowers do the world of good when it’s yucky outside:)
Your poetic account of deciding who to be and what to do today felt like a wave that inches its way ever so gently onto shore until it reaches further. Each wave embraces the shore a bit more and in doing so grasps its full essence over time, as though the wave were a hand that discovers the world by touch. And then you find a resting place, the right place, in a feast. Reading this felt so peaceful. It is a reminder to slow down and act with intention and awareness.
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You may be the most intelligent food blogger on WordPress! Good work!
You’ve elevated a “foodie post” to Freshly Pressed status!
Oh.. Well, I’m probably not, but I’m smart enough to know a most excellent compliment when I see one!! So thank you!! I would love to be Freshly Pressed.. But oh, well…
Your blog has it all, great recipes, snow, pictures of dogs, poetry, caffeine!
With much emphasis on the caffeine!!
What a beautiful post Smidge! What type of bird was it that was wandering around your backyard? And what beautiful looking citrus. I love the image of your dog taking a walk. And I would love to try your mother’s special recipe. Those vegetables look amazing.
I knew someone would ask that.. I think it was a pheasant (lol)…
You take such gorgeous photos, Smidge! I love the pheasant! And roasting potatoes with honey? What a wonderful idea.. 🙂
I know what you are talking about..
I thinking I have divided and divided till I got myself sick..I have the flu and I don’t have the energy to do anything
I have a friend who always warns me that I tend to spread myself sometimes too thin
This sounds like a great day and I hope you feel better
That’s exactly what happened… After writing this the headache turned into a cold, I should know better! I’m so sorry to hear you have the flu, I think that is much worse!! Get well soon!! Xoxo Smidge
Oh gosh that would just be so warm and comforting to eat.
It is soo yummy with all the hunny;)
The photo of the oranges looks so bright and healthful…I hope their sweet juice helps you feel better.
Feel better… I wonder how many of us have divided ourselves up to almost nothing! One of life’s lessons.
I´m playing catch up so do hope that by now you are felling better. And yes, there is ALWAYS room for one more (of anything good, at least)! Lovely roasted veggies, they must have done you the world of good.
The graceful comfort you offer in your mother’s lovely recipe is wonderfully framed in your gentle, generous, healing text.