Posted on May 17, 2023May 17, 202305/17/2023 same dinner but modified lemonade 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.
Posted on May 16, 2023May 16, 202305/15/2023 garden garlic use 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.
Posted on May 13, 2023May 13, 202305/12/2023 chenopodium in dinner Paula made a lovely Thai curry and added Chenopodium (commonly called lambsquarters) as the greens! Garden cilantro as garnish on the edge.
Posted on April 30, 2023April 30, 202304/30/2023 garlic scapes and feral hog fire-cooked ribs 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.
Posted on April 15, 2023April 15, 202304/15/2023 garden garnishes Tuqu is not allowed on the table but she can look at it. Garden flavors are the walking onions chopped up on the baked potato and cilantro cooked with the chicken.
Posted on April 9, 2023April 9, 202304/09/2023 soup at home From home: udon leek soup. homemade chicken stock with thyme & sage from garden.
Posted on April 1, 2023April 1, 202304/01/2023 stir fry with tatsoi Homemade noodles by Paula. Stir fry by Paula. Tatsoi greens by the garden!
Posted on March 30, 2023March 30, 202303/30/2023 green curry with garden tatsoi and garden cilantro Thanks Paula!