Inspiration and Always Wash Your Vegetables

Today, after a week of full of midterms and learning a new job (and finally getting over the failures of last week), I was finally inspired to cook. I had a pasta dish that in my head sounded good. I wanted to combine braised kale, sauteed mushrooms, parmesan anchovy bread crumbs, and a poached egg on top of spaghetti.  Sounded pretty good. In fact, I even got so far as to start the kale when I encountered a problem.

Yay greens! Healthy! Vegetarian! Sounds good right? (please say yes, or just smile and nod). But do you see the problem? Do you? Well, maybe a closer shot will help.  

 

 There was a SNAIL LIVING IN MY KALE. This is not brand new kale. This is rather old kale which means this snail has had a chance to slime (and other snail functions) all over all of the kale. I love escargot, but this was not in my recipe plan. It got thrown away and we went out to dinner where I had a lovely, snail free bowl of Spaghetti Bolognese with fresh pasta.

That brings the tally for the week to 4.