It's mid March, so put on your green clover glasses as you read this old Irish recipe for longevity: "Leave the table hungry. Leave the bed sleepy. Leave the bar thirsty." (I guess what that means is that restraint and self control are really good things!) And how about this ditty, "May your heart be light and happy, may your smile be big and wide, and may your pockets always have a coin or two inside!"  And finally, "May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, the foresight to know where you are 

Anyone out there looking for complicated tedious recipes? Anyone? I didn't think so!!! With fast food, drive through window service, and convenience foods flying off the shelf, what was my butternut loving brain thinking when I posted the recipe for that gorgeous Spinach Butternut Risotto Cake a year ago? 

It's a thing to behold, a savory and colorfully stratified "cake" 

Do you love a buttery blueberry scone, full of inky blue bites of redemption? Blueberries are like that. They redeem the ordinary biscuit by elevating it into a hopeful dose of antioxidant, guilt-free goodness. And what a gift, those little rolly-polly marbles, treasures of nutrition, and demin delights of every summer pie that leave indigo evidence on your previously "pearly whites".  It's a package deal and oh so worth it!