Snap Peas, Lemonade and a Dinner Plate

This morning I planted my first set of Sugar Snap Peas! - they're about my favorite vegetable and the season is short. I'll be looking every day to see if they've sprouted. I'll plant some more seed in about a week to 10 days.

Tonight's dinner turned out well - it was simple and easy which suits me fine. I baked a couple of sweet potatoes this morning, and then this evening I reheated them in slices with some maple syrup, steamed some beautiful red kale (the steaming water turns the most amazing bluish-purple) and topped it with vinaigrette, and made a simple bean salad with canned cannellini beans, chopped shallot and Kalamata olives, some pinches of dried oregano and thyme, a heaping spoonful of Dijon mustard and some oil and vinegar dressing. It turned out to be very tasty and satisfying:

I eat some form of legumes - beans, peas, lentils - almost every day, sometimes several times a day. My lifestyle is very active, and those fill me up and keep me full of energy.

And I made some wonderful homemade lemonade - I had an excess of lemons. I combined three cups of water with one cup of lemon juice - it took a lot of lemons - and then added sugar syrup (one cup water and one cup sugar warmed gently until the sugar dissolved) to taste. I have some leftover sugar syrup and unsweetened lemon water in the refrigerator - I'll bet they don't last long!