Same dinner as yesterday (leftovers still yummy!!) but this time Paula added butterfly pea flowers to the lemonade! The acid of the citrus turns it from blue (the flower original dye) to purple!! Doesn’t change the taste but very fun.
Paula peeled the giant garlic from a few days ago!The giant garlic had beautiful cloves and little garlics!Spicy peanut sauce on noodles. Containing the giant garlic as well as garden cilantro and walking onions.
Garlic scapes are the flower buds before they open. Here they are yesterday before I harvested them this morning. Harvesting them is supposed to make the garlic cloves turn out better as the energy doesn’t go all into the flowers. Last year we left the flowers. The Chef had a hankering to cook over fire. Here he adjusts a makeshift grill over the flames. An aluminum foil packet of potatoes is near his feet. Later he did the feral hog ribs over the fire too but finished a few of them off in the oven to ensure more even temperature for safety and convenience. The meal. The Chef topped his ribs with head country barbecue sauce. Potatoes (lower part of plate) came out perfect in spite of the packet seeming to catch on fire at some point. The garlic scapes were sautéed with onions and already cooked beans (upper left). I think we all agreed potatoes were good, scapes need something different, and ribs should have been slow cooked instead to be less tough.
All photos by Paula as she is the one at home! Thank you Paula!
Perennial blue flax blooming!A few peach flowers are turning into peaches in spite of the hard frost!Camassia angusta isn’t ready to bloom. But it looks like Camassia scilloides is thinking about blooming!! Mom says this is the species she sees at home in north central Texas. Last but not least the front yard lyre leaf sage is spreading nicely and has a bloom!