Posted on July 14, 2021July 14, 2021Green beans and kohlrabi Leftover hotpot style soup. The Chef also used venison from Paula and chard and kohlrabi leaves in eggrolls. Sauce for eggrolls was South Dakota honey from our esteemed visitor this week!
Posted on July 12, 2021July 12, 2021Afternoon and evening Argiope spider. We call them banana spiders for the yellow but I think most people call them garden spiders. Missouri fluttermill primrose in the rock/sedum garden continues to bloom! Many tomatoes along with kohlrabi. A caterpillar on cilantro. Maybe a cutworm? It looks familiar… Uzbek golden carrots! Excited to try them… I harvested a bit early on two. Oops. Wes made hot pot style soup. It contains chard, kohlrabi stem and leaves, green beans, sweet peppers, onions, and green onions. A view of the spread. We have a vaccinated guest!!
Posted on July 3, 2021July 3, 2021Side yard dirt moving on Friday I’m getting the last bed much smoother and dirt on lawn much more level. Was able to do this on Friday evening as no rain since Thursday. Pasta from scratch topped with a mix of garden and store tomatoes, and garden oregano.
Posted on June 24, 2021June 24, 2021French onion soup First we must get approval of herbs (moss curled parsley) from the sous chef. The cooking begins. French onion soup with a side of chicken. Onions and parsley from the garden.
Posted on June 22, 2021June 23, 2021Assorted day off activities and observations Several strawberry runners took root so I snipped the runners. I set out a tray of dirt to try to capture more strawberry runners. The Chef helped me cut down the yaupon holly that was planted in a bad spot. It kept hitting the garage roof and gutter. Nine of ten water barrels are now in place for use! Dinner… I made it this time. It includes a few of the new tomatoes (as well as a store tomato) and fresh garden basil and oregano. Got mail!! Drying coriander (the cilantro seeds) for later harvest! Tepary beans reaching up! Wild poinsettia (A volunteer). The prairie and its rain barrel. Rudbeckia is looking great. A true bug. Standing cypress about to bloom!
Posted on June 20, 2021June 20, 2021First harvests and little friend 95 g of blackberries!! A dinner’s worth of green beans! From Mbombo (more) and blue lake (fewer and smaller) beans. A lightning bug sitting on the zucchini. A’grappoli d’inverno tomatoes (larger ones) and white currant tomatoes (small yellow ones). I’m delighted the white currants grew true to seed since I collected them last year! The Chef cooked the green beans with bacon and put walking onions chopped on baked potato. A little gray treefrog guards the zucchini from a radish leaf!
Posted on June 6, 2021June 6, 2021Soup for dinner Green onions in the soup and green onions in the cream cheese fried wontons!
Posted on May 24, 2021May 24, 2021Bok choy Wes included the bok choy (and also some oregano) in a tomato-onion-sausage pasta dish tonight.
Posted on May 24, 2021May 24, 2021Rouge d’hiver lettuce Rouge d’hiver lettuce as salad. Walking onions as garnish on lasagna.
Posted on May 10, 2021May 10, 2021Basil and oregano pizza Basil on top of cheese and oregano is hiding below cheese. Salad is the big Boston lettuce that is heading right now. Basil outside hasn’t come up yet so I’m still nursing along the window basil. I’m hoping this harvesting will encourage them to get bushier and more leaves. The red rubin in particular are spindly. The mammolo basil (the green ones) have bigger leaves but not very many.