Shrimp and Cucumber noodles

It was a very green dinner tonight. Look at all the green foods we ate:

Shrimp, cucumber chunks, and dried Chinese noodles cooked in a homemade vegetable broth (with the shrimps' shells boiled in). Every so often I make vegetable stock from bits and pieces of carrots, celery, and onion that I save in a bag in the fridge. I know, it's really 1930s, but I figure it's a free quart of good stock!

Fresh fave beans sauteed with onions and fennel. This was surprisingly tasty. I love the flavor of soft, barely caramelized fennel.

Sesame marinated celery, a common Chinese cold plate.

And kimchi, everyone's favorite Korean cold plate. I didn't make this myself; we bought it at a nice little market off Geary and Fillmore. For my money, they make the best kimchi in city limits.