Posted on November 9, 2021November 9, 2021Garden produce journeys south Mom incorporated Swiss Chard and tomatoes from our garden into an oil and lemon stir fry to accompany honey salmon and potato-leek soup.
Posted on October 27, 2021October 27, 2021Tuesday evening A milkweed beetle!! Very exciting! It’s sitting on a tepary bean though, silly friend. Salvia greggii are doing amazing right now. “landlocked gumbo” says the Chef. Okra, mini bell pepper, tam jalapeño pepper, and moss curled parsley all from garden.
Posted on September 25, 2021Fancy, that’ll teach me (Wednesday dinner) Course 1: garlic lemon aioli with rolled prosciutto, atop bacon fat flatbread, on a bed of radicchio, drizzled with goji tomatillo (garden) syrup, topped with Leonberger cheese, and garnished with a mini bell pepper slice (garden) and white currant tomatoes (garden). Course 2: venison bone broth made with carrots, celery, parsley (garden), with chopped onions (last of garden) and pearled barley, garnished with mini bell peppers (garden) and served with the bacon fat flatbread. Course 3: braised venison shoulder seasoned with rosemary (garden), shiitake mushroom, serrano peppers (a friend’s garden), and onion (garden). Plated with radicchio, garlic lemon aioli, sliced tomatoes (garden), and a sea of goji tomatillo (garden) syrup. In lieu of pictures of course 4 (fresh vanilla bean frozen custard a la Paula), here is the dog hoping for course 3. We ate the ice cream and didn’t take a picture. 😎
Posted on September 22, 2021September 22, 2021BCT Bacon chard tomato sandwich. Chard and tomatoes from garden. Bread from Paula!!
Posted on September 14, 2021September 14, 2021Garden beans in cheese “um, excuse me! I’m hungy!” “oh wow! For me???”
Posted on September 6, 2021September 7, 2021Holiday Sunday An outdoor dinner. Garden basil and oregano. Moved the chives and garlic chives that Judy gave me last year. Maybe they’ll like this spot better. Uzbek golden, little, and New Kuroda carrots. Gram helps me get seeds out. Fall seeds planted of cabbage, mizuna, greens, and cauliflower. Tomatoes and peppers for overwintering. And a few pots of Roman chamomile for the front yard ground cover. This is where I shall attempt peppers and tomatoes over the winter. This goldenrod was already here and is doing very nicely. A giant 1″+ horsefly on a backyard window sill. Never going outside again. I lied. Outside again. Chiltepin peppers. Frostweed doing alright after it died back earlier in summer. A little spider got this Eastern Tailed-Blue on the englemann daisy. Texas mallow blooming! The non native clematis. I’ll clean it out over the winter. Okra flower A bumblebee on the okra!
Posted on September 5, 2021September 5, 2021Even wilder Saturday Okra flower keeping its banker’s hours. Taco week leftovers include garden potatoes and garden sweet peppers (a few mini bells and one Jimmy Nardallo sweet pepper) and tomatoes in cheese sauce. Wet dog helping me water. A kind friend who was moving gave me a string of solar lights which I put in the trellises today. They have a switch, so I can have them on only as needed, so we don’t distract the night bugs from their business.
Posted on August 28, 2021August 28, 2021Friday dinner of mostly garden tacos Thursday evening, the Chef began preparing spices for meat in slow cooker. Two jalapeños, one chimayó (top). Mmm tacos. Everything except meat, tortillas, cheese, and spices are from garden. Beans are the last of last year’s California black-eyed peas. Potatoes are this year’s kennebec white. After dinner, Paula and I did some garden harvesting. New for the season are Alabama black-eyed butter beans. Also new for the season are slippery silks pole beans. While we picked, the ice cream maker machine worked hard. Vanilla with blackberries from home. Thanks Mom for sending some home with us!
Posted on August 26, 2021August 26, 2021Caught in the act It turns out the mystery vine on the trellis is Clematis terniflora which is invasive and non-native. Gotta go!! That’s valuable bean trellis. The Chef preparing okra for frying. Okra plus breading for frying. Briar and Gram were very intrigued by the smells of dinner.