Happy St. Patty’s Day and almost Friday! No green beer guzzling here, but lots of green pics. Every spring large herds of goats make their way through all the open fields and hillsides here for grazing. They eat wildfire fuel, weeds and thatch to promote new growth and seeing the herds is a cool sight. I had to detour around a few herds on my long training runs and that’s okay since they’re so cute. This week we have a huge herd outside our subdivision and I decided to get out there to snap a few pics while it wasn’t raining for a change, a great opportunity to play with the telephoto lens.
How you doin’?
These two were playing with a block of wood like a soccer ball.
A lot of them were jumping around and playing, they’re very active.
Like me with a few co-workers today. :-P
Wanna play fetch?
I could have watched them much longer, they’re adorable playing with anything that resembled a toy, getting it on, posing for my camera, and racing around chasing each other.
Back at home, I got to unload the fresh farm box sitting our porch. I was thrilled to see it since I haven’t been to a grocery store in over a week! Now I’m loaded with kale, spinach, collard greens, oranges, apples, asparagus and much more.
I had to use some of the fresh spinach in a St. Patty’s day themed skillet socca. I threw a couple of leaves in the Vita-Mix with garbanzo bean flour, dill, water and a little salt.
Then poured the mixture over heated olive oil in a skillet.
I’m still working on my flipping skills. :-)
But it made a great, festive add to my monster dinner salad dressed with a simple Vita-Mix salad dressing of an orange and a chunk of fresh ginger.
Yikes, what a long week. It’s been terribly busy at work, being tired from the half-marathon last weekend and screwed up from the time change has not helped! It’s supposed to rain all weekend here, so I’m looking forward to some down time at home. But now I’m gonna gather what energy I have left to head to the gym.
How was your St. Patty’s Day?
bitt says
Goats are one of my favorite domesticated animals. They have fun personalities.
So creative with the green socca. I love the dill idea.
christine says
Goats do have a neat personality, interesting watching them turn anything into a toy and interact.
Averie (LoveVeggiesAndYoga) says
The goats….oh, so cute! And your photos of them are awesome! So crisp and clear and vibrant. I can see so much detail and I love it! What a fun thing to watch goats. Aruba has wild goats and it’s so fun to watch them when we’re there.
The green skillet socca! Much better than green beer :)
christine says
Thanks on the photos, the lens did great considering I was snapping from across a large field. I hope our herd sticks around over the weekend because I could watch them for hours more I think.
Pure2raw twins says
Love the pictures of the goats !! too cute
Yay for green socca!! We have still have trouble flipping it too :)
Katie says
Loving the goat pics!! There are a lot of them!!!!!
I love the idea of green socca! Very cool! Yes my pancake fail was horrible but it tasted good in a bowl mixed up with almond milk!
Have a great day love!!!!!!! xoxo
Lauren says
Love your blog. I have garbanzo flour and haven’t used it yet (and a new vitamix) excited to try this. Any other garbanzo flour ideas?
christine says
Socca is pretty much all I’ve used my garbanzo bean flour for so far, but there are lots of flavor possibilities with that alone. I’ve gotta try chocolate socca next by adding cacao powder and a little sweetener to the batter.
Carey says
I’m now making my socca in the oven because of the flipping issues..oven technique works very well each time. Do you add oil to your batter as well? I add a little olive oil to my batter and then some in the iron skillet as well.
We have goats that graze here in CO for the exact same reasons, every spring/summer they arrive for a week or so. I enjoy their company.
christine says
Yeah, think I’ll stick to the oven method too. But the cook time is tough on weeknights. I did add a tablespoon of olive oil to the batter in the Vita-Mix also.
That’s cool on the goats, I hope our herd sticks around for the weekend and the weather is good enough to visit them again.
Anna @ Newlywed, Newly Veg says
Haha…I love goats!!!! They seem to have so much personality!
(what runs) Lori says
Goats!! Fun. They’re so cute. I bet they’d be fun to watch play fetch. ;) hehe
Green socca… yes please!