Here's an update on the Pesto Bean Soup I shared in my
previous post.
I did make it again yesterday. Used the basic recipe but
added a 1/4 cup of ORZO pasta. . . . . boiled it separately,
about 8 minutes, drained and added it to the finished soup.
This was a good choice and actually made the soup more of
a thicker dish. Served with warm whole wheat pita bread it was
our main meal.
Really great Orzo from Abruzzo, Italy.
This morning I took everything out of the fridge/freezer and gave the interior
a heavy duty clean. How does so much debris collect in the corners,
and so many mystery freezer bags and containers hide in the back with
use by dates now history? Over stocking and panic buying at the beginning
of the pandemic is much to blame of course!
Speaking of eating and storing food, Mrs. Northern Flicker has really
become such a welcome bird - along with her Mr. - at the suet feeders.
I'm hoping so much they have a family this spring.
They're the only woodpecker who eats on the ground at times as they love
ants and beetles. Here, when filling the suet feeder, a piece fell and she was
there in no time having a special easy to grab snack!
Lately she seems to come more often to feed - perhaps he's busy searching
out a nesting site. Later both male and female excavate the nesting cavity
for her to lay 5-8 eggs, their one annual brood. Both will incubate and feed
their young.
Whoever said don't wear spots and stripes together was totally wrong!
This is one gorgeous marked large bird. . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . and I love that they are so easy to identify - he with that handsome mustache!
Ok this is where I love you and leave you.
I'm off to my stylist for a haircut. I'm sure this will be the
very end of my pre-pandemic red hair, last colored 13 months ago!
Just a few final snips and my 'silver' will be 100% and shining!
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