Posted on March 12, 2022March 12, 2022Spring onion sets Yellow granex onion Texas early white onion- new variety this year. Two sets of white granex onion.
Posted on December 28, 2021December 28, 2021Thai green curry From garden: cilantro, bok choy, walking onion. Other ingredients include random assorted vegetables. It was delicious!! Thanks Paula!!!
Posted on December 12, 2021December 12, 2021Venison and hog chili paste with sweet basil and egg foo yong Paula cooked us this delicious Thai sour and spicy entree. From the garden ingredients were green tomatoes, walking onions, and cilantro. The dessert in the middle is called bua loy, which is rice flour balls in sweetened coconut milk. A delicious and filling meal!!
Posted on October 4, 2021October 4, 2021Tiny tiny tiny friend This little spider required the clip on macro lens. Lots of walking onions bulbs to spread around. The new buffalograss is already blooming!!
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 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 8, 2021August 8, 2021Leftovers garden taco salad From the garden: Fordhook Giant Swiss Chard (green in the rainbow beds), tomatoes, and salsa verde from yesterday. The Chef also reminds me that the leftover rice had onions and tomatoes in it too and he mixed in the rest of his refried beans with some canned refried beans.
Posted on July 7, 2021July 7, 2021Garden sandwich Onion, tomato, and Swiss chard from the garden with ham and French fries!
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 11, 2021June 11, 2021Yesterday’s stuff The Chef got three jars of dehydrated onion stems/leaves from our harvest of granex bulb onions. The bulbs are still drying in the hall. My hat is irresistible to Gram. He tries to eat the string and tulle until I get fed up and put it up. Fleabane in full bloom! Photography is boring for dog. Dill starting to bloom. Elderberry is thriving. Full view. It’s just one plant! A tiny bee on Gaillardia pulchella. A young (?) lynx spider eats a house fly while sitting on coreopsis. Coneflowers are going strong. I need to look up the name of this skipper, which is sitting on a dayflower leaf.