My potager, aka: vegetable garden, veggie patch, disaster area, is not having one of its better years My big blue pumpkins, normally way too prolific, have produced 3 tiny specimens that are, at the moment, rotting on the vines. The usual second crop is non-existent. All 20 of my shallots died. That has never happened before – not in 12 years of gardening. The green beans gave me enough for … Continue reading →
Once again, some bright spark decided that I would be happy if my work space on this blog changed to their preference, rather than be kept to mine. It now has a gray background with instructions in white. Would someone please tell these developers to stop trying to be clever and creative and just keep stuff so we can get the work done? Okay, got that bit out of my … Continue reading →
My mother made a traditional Sunday dinner every week, promptly served at 12:00. At least half of those dinners were a chuck roast, with all the fixin’s (potatoes, gravy, vegetables). The other weeks varied between roast chicken, pork roast, meat loaf, etc. When I started dating mon mari he was a newly divorced single dad with a 10 yr old son. We started dating in the summer. Since he had … Continue reading →
I grew up in a small town, population 288. In a small town everyone knows everything about everybody. They all knew I liked candy bars, fresh green beans, and dogs; and I hated chocolate covered cherries. I had the paper route so they probably knew more about me than the other 5 kids that lived in town. Every year someone would give me a box of chocolate covered cherries for … Continue reading →
When I received an offer to post an article on the cuisine of the Philippines I thought: great! I love to learn about the foods and cooking of other cultures and I was totally unfamiliar with Filipino cooking. After I read the article I was still unfamiliar – but the food looked good and I was intrigued. Google to the rescue. I looked up a few of the ingredients, just … Continue reading →
I know it’s August, but I still have a few salad recipes to post. It’s still summer and lots of people actually buy lettuce so they can enjoy it for more then the short growing season. For more ambitious gardeners, one can plant lettuce now to harvest in the cooler days of September. The salad lovers of the world can never have too many recipes / ideas. This Sausage, Potato … Continue reading →
This is the first year that I’ve grown these little, round summer squashes. They’re so cute I hate to do the usual preparation – shredding, slicing or chopping, that I do to the more usual, long types. They really just ask to be stuffed. It’s easy enough to do: slice a bit off the stem end and scoop out the seeds with a teaspoon. Then fill with whatever sounds good … Continue reading →
