Kale and stupid expensive cat teeth

Last week was the first delivery from my farm for this year. The picture on the left shows the bounty. I had a kale and strawberry salad which was pretty tasty, but the sweet and sour kale I made tonight (picture on the right) was much, much better.  My favorite non-cheese kale dish by far.

Sweet and Sour Kale

 Ingredients:

1 bunch Kale (around a pound or so), washed and ripped into eatable pieces

Dried cranberries

1 bundle spring  onions

Apple Cider Vinegar

Garlic Powder or freshly chopped garlic

Salt

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Sugar in the Raw

Water

Seeds

1. Chop and Saute onion in olive oil for a few minutes- ½-full onion or so.

2. Add:

¼ - ½ cup cranberries

3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar

1 tablespoon sugar in the raw

1 teaspoon garlic powder or chopped fresh garlic depending on what you have

A sprinkle of salt

3. Mix this all up and cook for a minute or so until the cranberries can soften a bit

4. Put your Kale in and pour a little (3 Tablespoons or so water over Kale) and put the lid on. You can open to stir, but mostly the kale will be steaming. Cook it on medium for a few minutes or until Kale is wilted but not mushy.

5. Throw on some seeds (pumpkin, sunflower..) or whatever you have to add.

Now for the cat news. Stupid Zozo has bad teeth. The vet said it was "stomatitis" and described it as essentially, his gums are allergic to normal cat-mouth bacteria. Lovely.  Do Not google for images of feline stomatits, ick ick ick. 

The good news is that they only had to take out one of his molars, and there is some hope that the rate of decay can be dramatically halted with some additives to the cats drinking water.  The bad news was that the two options I thought I was getting from the initial vet visit turned out to not really be options, but rather the *two* *expensive* things they were going to have to do to him, instead of one expensive thing.  At least he takes liquid medicine easily.  In the picture of Zozo, you can see where they shaved his arm for the IV.

Jaxby was completely not pleased with being left alone all day long while Zozo was at the vet and spent the next two days hissing whenever they ended up face to face. I'm hypothesizing that Zozo's mouth smelled like stitches or something or Jaxby has never smelled Zozo without extra stinky cat breath.  Because I am a bad cat owner, I spent part of Saturday making them chase the same bell trying to take pictures of angry Jaxby.  This was as close as I got, the hiss had finished, but the ears are still shouting angry cat language.