Ho, Ho, Ho. (Crunch, Crunch, Crunch.)

They were kelly green, firm and robust with no blemishes — and they weren’t Captain Kirk’s girlfriends. “I want some,” my baby intoned as we circled past them in the shopping cart.  Soon, my children were carrying on so intensely — for vegetables no less — that the produce man gave them a sample right away. Crunch!

Usually I leave the food posts to my friend, the Austin Frugal Foodie at Savor the Earth. But today the green beans at Whole Foods were just too magnificent to ignore. They were local, organic and on sale for $1.99 a pound — a veritable trifecta of awesomeness.