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<\/a><\/p>\nThe other day I was talking to my neighbor who was telling me she’d made ratatouille for dinner. She proceeded to tell me it had zucchini, tomatoes, and Italian sausage in it. Although I said nothing, my brain was screaming, “That’s not ratatouille, that’s giambotta!” It seems that in my brain, there’s one key to what makes the difference between these two soups\/stews made from summer veggies: ratatouille has eggplant, giambotta has zucchini. The addition of the Italian sausage sealed the deal. While my giambotta doesn’t generally have sausage in it, ratatouille certainly<\/em> doesn’t contain Italian sausage – not in my<\/em> world.<\/p>\n Anyway, although today is August 4th, it has felt like fall all day. Cool, windy, alternating between overcast & clouds. So I decided I’d make giambotta. In addition to the zucchini (I only had 1 small one) I used yellow summer squash. Another giambotta must-haves for me is green beans, and I had some fresh beans that were a tad large for just steaming. I added some kale, tomatoes, red bell pepper, chicken stock, and the ever-present onions & garlic. This time I also made a mess of mini meatballs with ground turkey. <\/p>\n Gonna go eat it while it’s hot! Isn’t it funny how our minds work? Into my 40s I still thought I was flexible. Experience had taught me that I really only like change that’s my idea – change that’s thrust upon me isn’t always welcomed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The other day I was talking to my neighbor who was telling me she’d made ratatouille […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-i-see-it","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4740,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737\/revisions\/4740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nYour turn: wanna share a recent encounter that pointed out your mental rigidity? Or doesn’t that happen to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"