Winding up the garden
After a dust-filled high-wind day of allergy goodness yesterday, I was ready to Get Shit Done today.
I picked the very last of the tomatoes and a couple of onions and cut those up. Then tossed in a few torn basil leaves, a sliced up green onion top, a couple of the baby celery stalks all diced up, tossed it with some olive oil and fig balsamic vinegar, and topped it with nasturtium flowers for M and his mom to have for lunch. M put the leftovers into his mashed black beans he'd made yesterday for burritos.
We picked the last of this year's garlic that hasn't already sprouted (I was surprised to find at least four bulbs sprouting underneath the tomato bushes), planted next year's garlic and shallots, and I planted another dozen tulip bulbs for next spring. I need to get some fall flowers in the yard next year. Right now the only blooms we have are the nasturtiums, catnip and oregano flowers.
I butchered our pumpkins too. I beheaded them, dismembered them, eviscerated them, skinned them, and baked up what was left. Then I mashed the pieces into some seriously fine-looking puree. Instead of last year's packing fiasco, when the puree had finally cooked down and cooled off by about 9pm on Sunday night and giving up and packing it all into gallon jars so I could be finished with it, I had it all done by about lunch time and was able to pack it into much smaller jars to make using it far easier this year.
We had a visit from Merwench who was kind enough to gift us with a jar of grape jelly and a jar of apple butter, both of which came from her garden.
Then I made a lentil dish that was a cross between the Lebanese soup I've made before and a Cooking Light dish I found in a recent issue. It came out really well.
For whatever reason, I wasn't done yet. So I made french toast muffins with raspberry jam on top. We've already eaten three or four of the dozen I made. I hope there are a few left for breakfast tomorrow!
Now to tackle homework for music theory class and get some practice in on the bass before bed.
I picked the very last of the tomatoes and a couple of onions and cut those up. Then tossed in a few torn basil leaves, a sliced up green onion top, a couple of the baby celery stalks all diced up, tossed it with some olive oil and fig balsamic vinegar, and topped it with nasturtium flowers for M and his mom to have for lunch. M put the leftovers into his mashed black beans he'd made yesterday for burritos.
We picked the last of this year's garlic that hasn't already sprouted (I was surprised to find at least four bulbs sprouting underneath the tomato bushes), planted next year's garlic and shallots, and I planted another dozen tulip bulbs for next spring. I need to get some fall flowers in the yard next year. Right now the only blooms we have are the nasturtiums, catnip and oregano flowers.
I butchered our pumpkins too. I beheaded them, dismembered them, eviscerated them, skinned them, and baked up what was left. Then I mashed the pieces into some seriously fine-looking puree. Instead of last year's packing fiasco, when the puree had finally cooked down and cooled off by about 9pm on Sunday night and giving up and packing it all into gallon jars so I could be finished with it, I had it all done by about lunch time and was able to pack it into much smaller jars to make using it far easier this year.
We had a visit from Merwench who was kind enough to gift us with a jar of grape jelly and a jar of apple butter, both of which came from her garden.
Then I made a lentil dish that was a cross between the Lebanese soup I've made before and a Cooking Light dish I found in a recent issue. It came out really well.
For whatever reason, I wasn't done yet. So I made french toast muffins with raspberry jam on top. We've already eaten three or four of the dozen I made. I hope there are a few left for breakfast tomorrow!
Now to tackle homework for music theory class and get some practice in on the bass before bed.