And some brief cooking notes

Nothing too major this week but I did try a couple of things — back over the weekend, a little sauteed chard with raisins, garlic and goat cheese:

And a few days after that, a cold cabbage/cucumber soup:

Which given how this week turned out colder than normal might not have been the right approach, but hey! There are a slew of cold cabbage soup recipes out there if you’d like to try further — I used this one, minus the buttermilk.