A Month of Tulips

A couple of months ago I decided I was going to try to become a vegetarian. I like hand-packed burgers, Sunday roasts, and meat platters as much as the next girl, but for a variety of reasons, the time seemed ripe to make a change. My friend Claire is a vegan, and for the most part, it's difficult to figure out what to cook for her, but I'd bought a new cookbook to help me with the new diet and was inspired to try my hand making Claire dinner. I tested out the ratatouille recipe three times before inviting her over and I spent so much time making the main, I ran out of time to make us dessert. Claire brought me a tulip plant as a hostess gift, which was incredibly thoughtful and totally unnecessary. The first day it looked like this:

It bloomed for four days before it looked tired and I had to trim it. However, it seems to have at least one more flower in it. More photos to follow on Mondays to come.