At the local produce stand yesterday, along with the 11 ears of corn for $1, I got all this for $3 more. So, I decided to use the slightly bruised green peppers and 2 onions to make some veggie chili. A few pieces and slivers of green pepper had to be removed and not used, but the majority was still beautiful and ripe. The tangerines are back in the fridge for eating this week.
I sauteed the onion and green peppers in 4 teaspoons canola oil. The onions went in a few minutes first. The spices were added in next. Cumin, cayenne, garlic, freshly ground pepper, and chili powder. Lots and lots of cumin and chili powder! I then added in canned tomatoes, canned tomato sauce, drained & rinsed canned black beans, and corn. If I had homemade tomato sauce and corn I would have used those. I am trying to get away from so many canned items.
It needed a little more liquid to it, so I made up some veggie bouillon and added 2 C of that.
As I was cutting up the green peppers, I thought of how the bruised peppers are a metaphor for me and my continuing weight loss journey. I have gained it all back. It happened when I didn't even know it. Sure I am to blame for most of it. But the pain in my body and lack of exercise have something to do with it too. When I bought the peppers on the dollar table, I didn't remove each to see if I should buy them. I trusted that I would have enough to use for chili. I don't know how they became bruised, if by nature or man, but do the bruises make them any less valuable? In a food sales world, yes. To me, no! I have picked up some emotional bruises along the way and I have to ask myself, does that make me any less valuable? No! So, there are a few pieces of me that I need to discard (weight), but, I am still valuable and worthy like those peppers.
And given that today is my 33rd birthday, I think this is a great revelation and start to a healthy and bountiful year!
It needed a little more liquid to it, so I made up some veggie bouillon and added 2 C of that.
As I was cutting up the green peppers, I thought of how the bruised peppers are a metaphor for me and my continuing weight loss journey. I have gained it all back. It happened when I didn't even know it. Sure I am to blame for most of it. But the pain in my body and lack of exercise have something to do with it too. When I bought the peppers on the dollar table, I didn't remove each to see if I should buy them. I trusted that I would have enough to use for chili. I don't know how they became bruised, if by nature or man, but do the bruises make them any less valuable? In a food sales world, yes. To me, no! I have picked up some emotional bruises along the way and I have to ask myself, does that make me any less valuable? No! So, there are a few pieces of me that I need to discard (weight), but, I am still valuable and worthy like those peppers.
And given that today is my 33rd birthday, I think this is a great revelation and start to a healthy and bountiful year!
1 comment:
I love the bruised pepper analogy. I used to always say that I was like a cracked vase - you could glue the pieces back together, it might look fine, it might even hold water but it would always be broken.
Then someone told me the story of a person who took 2 jars to fill with water each day. One leaked so that by the time she got home, the jar was half empty. The jar asked why she still used him if he didn't work right. She replied, "Yes, you leak water but look at all the beautiful flowers you've helped grow along the way."
We may be bruised but our roads are paved with beautiful flowers.
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