Turkey day in September

[altivo]

Realizing that between the rain and all Gary's away from home performances, we've hardly barbecued at all this year, so on Friday I pulled a ten pound turkey out of the freezer to thaw. Figured we'd roast it on the grill today. The weekend was beautiful, but of course today had to be thunderstorms and wind, so that killed the idea of grilling the

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[kint]

I'll move over here so as not to spam Miktar's LJ with chatter...

breadmaking isn't the busiest community, but there's nice stuff from time to time. food-porn is the other foodie community I frequent (and I'm sure there are many more I don't).

I actually ended up getting big, heavy duty Kitchen Aid 600 Pro for my home kitchen... http://kint.livejournal.com/262505.html ...and have been baking much more bread since http://community.livejournal.com/breadmaking/46341.html Definitely hope to see postings from you if'n you guys keep records of your endeavors :)

[altivo]

I'm glad I spotted you over at miktar's. :) Welcome

Attack of the killer Zucchinis!!!

[bladehorse]

And I thought the Tomatoes were silly enough! I think i need to send you some help controlling them. I have a ton of gophers and deer that like to eat anything green! (Even the evergreens:p, Well the gophers anyways) Im wondering what in the hell the kithen garden is doin an 1/8th of a mile away tho! Thats where the corn is supposed to be growing!
It does sound like that time o the year fur turkey dinner tho... YUM!

Re: Attack of the killer Zucchinis!!!

[altivo]

So far the zucchinis are not posing any kind of threat. They just take up space and look green. It's not easy being green, you know.

The garden is far from the house because of the layout of the property. Like many 5 acre plots in our area, this one is long and narrow (a quarter mile long but only 150 feet or so in width.) The end near the road is a grove of hundred year old oak trees, many of them 60 feet tall or more, so there isn't a lot of sun. That's where the house and barns are located. In back of the barns there are more oak and hickory trees before you reach the pasture areas which make up about 3 acres and are open to the sun. Gardens want sun, so we located ours there. The previous owners didn't garden at all, but someone did before them. There are established blueberries and raspberries on the edge of our garden plot that have been there for a couple of decades.

[alaskawolf]

now you got me hungry :P

[altivo]

Should be easy enough to fix that.

[avon_deer]

You will have to excuse me, while I clean up the pool of my own drool. I foresee a trip to Sainsbury's tonight to pick up some parmesan and courgette. :)

[altivo]

If they sell the courgette the way they are marketed here, probably the ones you can buy are smaller than we let them get in the garden. That's not a problem, just use two or three of them if they are small. The pasta sauce I used was a marinara with mushrooms and sweet peppers added to the tomato sauce. Definitely go for the lump parmesan that you grate yourself, it's infinitely superior to the pre-grated kinds.

[cabcat]

After talking about nice food and making me drown in my own drool, I'm glad you're going back to work tommorow...you hear me? Glad!! Bwahahahaha!

God I'm hungry now.

[altivo]

Hop on a plane and come visit. There are plenty of leftovers from that meal.