Posted on January 1, 2024January 1, 202401/01/2024 new year foods The Chef cooked black-eyed peas with jalapeños. They were from our plants (two summers ago) and Rancho Gordo. The cheesy pile is farm share broccoli in rice covered with Welsh rarebit sauce. The meatloaf is ground venison from a friend and includes bread Paula made crumbled up in it.
Posted on September 14, 2021September 14, 2021Garden beans in cheese “um, excuse me! I’m hungy!” “oh wow! For me???”
Posted on September 1, 2021September 1, 2021New season jar Was almost full last year. Hope we get same this year. Two black swallowtail cats on carrots in front yard that survived the earwigs. The front one in focus.
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 May 25, 2021May 25, 2021Evening things in the Pacific rainforest that is Norman Cowpeas coming up among corn, beets, and peppers. Coreopsis in background. Black coat runner bean flowers. Mini bell pepper flowering. Rouge Vif d’Etampes squash has big leaves! Inca pea bean leaves. Golden jenny melon needs more sun I think. Its seedling seems stuck. Madhu ras melon is in a better spot. This beetle eats solanaceous plants. It is sitting on my Peruvian ground cherry. This beetle is now gone. Presumed beetle eggs. They are gone now. A mysterious giant finger squished them.