Mmmm ....

Delicious food
Courtesy of yesterday's suprise gift - which was actually a whole lot of oak leaf lettuce and the first beetroot from new friend Amanda's allotment - and blippers' comments.

Some of the lettuce was added to the fresh pea and mint soup with bacon bits that was cooking when the gift arrived; spectacular improvement to an already great soup.

I had braised beet leaves with garlic and onion with lunch and followed Flower Spirit's recipe (in yesterday's comments) for beetroot and orange salad, along with another stack of the lettuce, and a Marks and Spencer's steakburger for dinner.

I feel outrageously well-fed - in part because I was so busy in June and July that I practically lived on shop sandwiches.

So this blip is in celebration of a return to food sanity and the kindness that does abound. Thanks for asking besideherself.