Verduras: Green Zone

My taste buds seem to change suddenly in this whirlwind of the first week being here in Viterbo (really? only a week?).

Now, I  did tell myself I would be open in trying new foods and categories of the food pyramid that I have never tried before, but I didn't know that my taste buds would expand SO much in the category of....

Vegetables.
Verduras.

It is amazing how one month ago, I despised things like zucchini and green beans, but now I can tell you that I am eating them casually (and with second helpings!). A month ago, I was never into tomatoes, and now I am slowly getting used to their taste...

Who knew that at dinner last night, I ate a good amount of what looked like to be a vegetable omelet.

hm....

This is a sentence I thought I would never say...

I think vegetables are good.

*GASP!* I think I heard Mom and Dad and my doctor pass out right now...but its true, I am not joking with you

Vegetables are pretty good.

Now, I am not talking about the crap we have in the US, where the green beans are canned, and sloppy, and the vegetables are not even healthy----either stale or fried.

I am talking about the healthy, farmer's market vegetables that aren't chemicalized, the ones that are sauteed with some extra virgin olive oil and a dash of salt for flavor. The vegetables that enhance the food we eat instead of cringing the next bite.

Those are the vegetables that I want to eat...

But still in a perfect world I would like all vegetables, but there are still some vegetables that I will never taste nor want to taste. There are still vegetables that I hate, and others that I have to get use to, but this step into the green zone of healthy eating is a bullet train forward into a good, healthy future.