positively nita

Let's face it. I struggle with EGGS. As a vegetarian, I have been perpetually struggling to find healthy protein sources so naturally, as a lacto-ovo vegetarian, eggs are an option. But I don't like them.  I can manage egg whites - egg white omelets, scrambled egg whites - but when it comes to yolks, we don't really get along and can't really tolerate the taste and texture.  I always cringe when people are cutting open a running egg on tv with the soft center oozing out ...just not my cup of tea. I can't tell you how many eggs I have thrown out over the course of my lifetime. I buy them in the hopes that I will eat them and then they sit and sit and unless I'm baking, they get tossed on trash day. I have experimented with egg salad which is palatable but I guess the way I was taught to make egg salad, it was always over complicated and overdressed - mayonnaise, mustard, celery, onion.  I even tried making an avocado egg salad in the past which had mustard and gr...

ANYONE that knows me knows my obsession with flowers. They make me happy...I used to be picky. Only loved certain flowers...lilies, growers stock. In fact I sadly looked down on some ...I grew up in the time when people would say "Oh carnations, that's the poor man's rose" and it said something if a guy got you those over anything else.  But I've grown to appreciate the heartiness and the heart of a carnation. It outlives most else in the bouquet and that one must appreciate. Another change that has come about in pandemic times with my love affair of flowers is ...the guilt I feel at times when I pick up my modest bouquet from Trader Joes. I used to think nothing of throwing down $20 on a bouquet - I still do for others. But over the last three months, I've learned that even one flower has such beauty. Things have changed. For one, price does matter. I tamed down to a $12.99 bouquet. And then $6.99. And now today I found beauty in a $3.99 bouque...