vegetables – Thoughts From The Passenger Seat

Green Giant changed their packaging for Riced Cauliflower to “Riced Veggies” with a smaller caption three quarters of the way down to tell us it is Cauliflower.

*New Look! Same Great Taste! Same Product!*

Naturally, I had to check online to see exactly what other vegetables are capable of being riced. None. But there are items such as Riced Cauliflower with peas and carrots (not riced!), and Riced Cauliflower with broccolini, and Riced Cauliflower with risotto.

In all fairness, I did see online that older packages of Riced Cauliflower do include “Riced Veggies” but the actual product is included right below the title which makes it a little easier to grab and go.

Lest you all think I’m wandering the aisles looking for my Riced Cauliflower, I’m not. I don’t do the grocery shopping! But changes like this do make me wonder whose bright idea it was to put what the name of the actual item is so far down the package. How much did the change cost for marketing and production.

I come from a family of “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” and as far as I can tell, the original was working pretty good. Now I just wonder when my husband will come home with some Riced Cauliflower Medley because he didn’t read the label and just grabbed and went.

Oh this weather!

The angle of the sun coming up over the trees and the subtle changes in the leaves just screams, “Fall is coming!” I don’t hate it. As a lover of sweater weather and “the chill behind the heat”, I’m here for it.

This morning I did a little walk around the yard and I noticed how one side of the steps is getting a little more Sun Love than the other side and it’s popping. One rose bush is budding all over the place and this little purple plant is blooming still while its other side of the steps counterpart is brown and sad.

This plant is part of the honeysuckle family (caprifoliaceae) of flowering plants. There are four “clades” (group of organisms that is composed of a common ancestor – hey! Like genealogy) above the family name. The Genus is Scabiosa but the common name for members in the genus is Pincushion Flowers. (Wikipedia).

Thinking about honeysuckles, we had a tree in our yard and would pluck the flowers, pull the center out (like the little pincushion piece), and taste the (supposed) honey at the end. Was it really? I have no idea, I’m sure our dad told us it was!

Take a close look at the blooming and post bloom and you see the little “needles” sticking out.

“Scabiosa” makes you think of scabs right? How about Scabies? That’s because the herb’s traditional usage as a folk medicine was to treat scabies, an illness that causes a severe itching sensation. (Wikipedia)

In my need to limit my social media footprint (facebook and instagram), I’ve stopped taking daily morning pictures of my short walk from the house to our garage workout room but weekends give me time to really enjoy my yard.

In the vegetable garden, the okra Just Keeps Producing! My husband slices it length wise, mixes it with olive oil, salt and pepper and roasts it to a golden crunch.

I’m looking for at least 2 more months of backyard wandering.

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Riced Veggies

Sunday Morning Walkabout