Bring out the good china Baby because we are having leftovers again! Pick some flowers and bring out the cloth napkins while you’re at it, sweetie. No kidding, leftovers mean l-o-v-e around my house. If I worked so hard on dinner last night, why do I have to work hard again tonight? So maybe, leftovers mean I love me! It’s all about making up some lost time to your wonderful Self. I felt like belly dancing tonight and I couldn’t think about food. I discovered those round balls you sit on make a great prop for shoulder shimmy’s and I get the feeling those cloth napkins are going to double as a veil later on when I dance this old Lamb & Barley soup to the dinner table.

It’s good to let loose on the Dinner obligation now and then. Quickly it can turn into one of those little, “really big” things that stand in the way of serenity and peace (sex) in Coupledom. You’ve got to watch out for that brothers and sisters on the path to marital bliss. What’s it going to be, quality time over warmed up spaghetti or a loaded “ somebody else better load that dishwasher, cause I just scrambled to put a nice dinner on the table” gun? Gourmet food is great don’t get me wrong. But hey, if it was so great last night it’s going to be even better tonight. I always make extra when I go all out.

It is all in the warming up method and putting a slightly different twist on it when you serve it up again. I say low and slow on the stove top or hot and fast in the oven. The stove top is sort of a no-brainer. If it is something to reheat in the oven, let it get to almost room temp, add a little water or chicken stock for moisture, uncover it and put it in an already hot oven at about 400. You shouldn’t overcook your meats and fish that way. About 10 minutes does the trick.  Serve with a tossed green salad and love for your self will spill all over the place. Even pizza and leftover steak heat up well that way. If you have a little toaster oven, you can give the environment some love by not turning on that big old oven. Another thing you can turn on is the hot water in your big old bathtub that is going to be calling you for an hour long soak with a steamy novel, good smelling bath salts and some chocolate truffles, cause you just bought your self a get out of making dinner hall pass.

On a Spring note, our fruit blossoms got a little cold last night in parts of the North Fork Valley ( that is what we call the areas around Hotchkiss and Paonia, Colorado )and I haven’t seen that many bees out to pollinate the flowers. They are trying but it’s cold on the little critters. Think Bee Power, folks. Bees make the world turn! Also think asparagus, it will be coming on soon………