What's Cooking (Take Four)

[Jenise]

No dinner plans yet. I had wanted to invite friends over for that duck and bean dish but I'm a little under the weather with an ear infection. Going to just make myself a salad and lay low.

Stainless steel chopsticks! That's a good twig!

I just recently had a single square of s'mores. Good but that was enough... they're really sweet to my grown-up tastes.

Tonight we had chicken breasts with mole verde (no chocolate). And a couple of pumpkin pie slices from a giganto pie our financial adviser gave us. When it's gone, I may make a mincemeat pie.

[Jenise]

I've had salads two nights in a row now. Boring! But hey, I got out a big bunch of broccoli rabe, put it in a colander and rinsed it well but then changed my mind about cooking it and went with the salad instead. Left the rabe in the sink to drain overnight.

This morning: it's there, and it has turned yellow. WTF? Sitting out overnight in the dark it couldn't stay green?

I have to say that I've never tried yellowing a bunch of broccoli rabe on purpose. Let me add that to my to-do list... somewhere on page 2046, I think....

[Jenise]

to Jeff. I tore off all the yellow leaves, reducing the total quantity by about half, and went ahead and cooked it. I'll heat it later and serve it with vinegar and butter, the way I loved eating spinach as a child.