What's for Dinner #402 Summer/Fall 2022
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Comments (110)Neely, I hope you are on the mend. My schedule has settled and I am back to cooking and tending the garden. I've been making jams, syrups and sauces. These are, from top, blackberries, boysenberries and ollalieberries. I make a triple berry jam from them. I also made a blueberry sauce and raspberry syrup. Yesterday, I canned eight large jars of nectarine jam and still have a tree full of fruit. Chicken with spicy nectarine sauce. My first attempt at a soft pretzel. This is the wine we made from last fall's harvest. From back, 1. Golden Muscat - juice only, 2. Golden Muscat - Juice and skins, 3. Golden Muscat - Skins only, and 4. California Chablis (Thompson's Seedless) - juice only. After tasting them all, we started blending. We decided to bottle a 50-50 blend of 1 & 4 and not blend 2 or 3. After bottling, I used the last partial bottle of the wine to make this lemon cream herb sauce, which we served over pan seared salmon. My second attempt at pretzels. I added an 'everything' flavor that was a hit with Garrett. I tried a new recipe - Poulet a la moutarde, which was tasty with brown rice and asparagus....See MoreJune 2022 Week 3: Summer has arrived
Comments (39)Larry, maybe weather patterns have changed because my Mom said her grandparents always said "knee high by July" regarding corn. It meant that the corn was coming along/on track for a good outcome/harvest. I'm pretty sure our tallest corn is taller than me now....and have silks. Lynn, unless the plants are just completely awful/dead, I'll leave them and often they'll make fruit again when it cools down. But, I realize everyone of us has reasons for growing and gardening the way we do. We have our schedules that work for us. We're all different. Nancy, grasshoppers don't like being wet. It slows them down. So, spraying them with water gives me a few seconds to smash them. I watered this morning but didn't take a lot of time to focus on them, although around 20 went to grasshopper heaven. It's pretty hot out there already so I came in at 11 instead of noon. I might go out and try to braid the garlic. We had a great harvest this year. Super excited about it. Does anyone know if onions can get sun scald in the garden? Plans for today: Stella leaves, so I'll send her off in a bit. Then, maybe putting the kraut into jars? Maybe I'll wait one more day. Rick is coming out this evening to check the SG to see if it needs watered. Everything else is watered. I know that ground level watering is the best, but has anyone used the tripod sprinklers in their gardens. Two of our neighbors have purchased those and it looks like a good way to water the SG. We can't run dripline in that garden because Rick likes to keep the rows fresh and fluffy with the Mantis. If I can take the heat, I might try to tie up the tomatoes in the SG. Those tomatoes are full of fruit but look like crap. There are 19 jars of diced tomatoes in the pantry from 2021. I sure would like to get an additional 2 dozen put up. Rick needs to replenish at his house too. The overflow tomatoes--the ones that looked horrible from the potting mix--look wonderful. Especially the ones behind the shop. So weird. Andria, if you're reading this, how do they look in the community garden? I was truly embarrassed to bring them to SF. I should have forced all of you to take some because they look great now. haha. In the summer, I really like to sleep in to 7 or 7:30. I'm considering getting outdoors by 6 and then napping in the afternoon. On my days off work, of course. Take it easy out there, People....See MoreHeat was the least of my worries: Summer damage 2022
Comments (16)Thanks so much for your supportive words everyone! @Kristine LeGault 8a pnw I agree that they were not very smart if they thought I wouldn't notice. But as you correctly guessed @strawchicago z5 , drugs are at the core of the problem, so that probably impacted their thinking. The most damaged area where they were putting the most things into the soil are the plants that were farthest from the door, I guess they thought those are "in the back" so less visible. I theorize that it was different individuals doing the burying and the retrieving of stuff, so the broken plants may have been from someone rummaging through them to find what someone else had buried. Last night another neighbor just discovered his storage closet had been broken into, so this is unfortunately not yet completely over. They didn't steal anything, they were looking for a new place to stash their loot. Again, not very smart to think this would go unnoticed. We are getting the main door to the building replaced, new locking system and will be adding a video surveillance camera to the entrance hall... It's so weird to think that is necessary now, but as you say @User this is the sad state of the world today. @rosecanadian I am so glad I can stay somewhere safe! And also very excited to get to try a whole new bunch of roses over there ! @sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish) luckily here in Malta the squatter laws are on the side of the owners. Unless they had been there for a dozen years and there was no identifiable legitimate owner they can't make any claim to the place and can be kicked out. In this case, they don't really even live there, they all actually have homes elsewhere and were just using the apartments to carry out their activities....See MoreFALL COLOR THREAD - 2022
Comments (108)The drought in Texas this year caused some early burnt tips, and mellowed my crape myrtles, but still managed to have a decent fall. Obiligatory Shumard Oak: Natchez Crape Myrtle & Mikawa Yatsubusa JM Closer Ruby Falls Redbud looked more yellow in person than in pictures: Shantung Maple Red Twig Dogwood Skeeter's Broom JM Two weeks earlier Fire Dragon Shantung Maple...See More- 2 years ago
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