I had a good green breakfast a little less than an hour ago.
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This post will lead you through all the stages of that simple but delicious weekend experience.
Here you can see a small pile of green leaves in the frying pan. The fire wasn't burning under the pan when the photograph was taken. The leaves belonged to the green radicchio plants that grow in my backyard. In the following shot ...
... you can see one of my two hands holding a handful of leaves above the kitchen sink. A few seconds after the photograph was taken, I was busy washing the radicchio.
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Here you can take a look at the little radicchio field behind my house.
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I saw and photographed some cool little insects while picking the leaves for breakfast.
It seems that even my food & kitchen-themed posts have to include some small arthropods. Some weirdos can't escape their fate or their main obsession, not even for fifteen minutes or half an hour while being busy preparing breakfast.
Here you can watch my relatively clumsy left hand collecting the radicchio, while in the following photograph ...
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... you can see a ladybeetle larva grazing the mildew on the upper surface of the leaf. This is the larva of the Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata ladybeetle. A few minutes later ...
... I photographed this adult beetle that was resting on the lower surface of another leaf.
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I also found this much bigger, well-camouflaged green caterpillar.
Can't tell you what moth or butterfly will this larva turn into after the metamorphosis.
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The whole summer I was eating the radicchio raw but today I decided to stew it. I mean, I'm not so sure that this is the right word for what I did in the kitchen. I kinda fried the leaves, but since those leaves released their water, the process looked a bit like boiling. You can see my reliable hand adding the olive oil in this photograph. These days, while still being hot around noon, start relatively fresh and humid, so I felt the need to eat something warm early in the morning. While the radicchio was being stewed or fried or whatever in the pan ...
... I scrambled two eggs in a green dish that proudly displays its simple but lovely design.
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It didn't take long for the leaves that were covering the whole pan to reduce to a small pile that I used to form a small green circle in the center.
More often than not, I like to add a bit of milk to the scrambled eggs. You can see my hand doing exactly that in this shot. When the following photograph was taken ...
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... the radicchio was ready for the next phase.
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It was time to add the slimy thing made of two eggs and a bit of milk.
Here you can see me, and by that, I mean "the almost entire me" not just a hand, carefully stirring the dish in the pan.
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The breakfast had a bit of style and esthetics while still in the pan, the shapes and colors are kind of arranged into something fairly good-looking, but ...
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... but then I screwed up everything during the transfer into the dish.