On Mondays I travel an hour and a half to work, and I car pool which means I can’t be late. So Monday mornings are somewhat rushed (to put it mildly!) To make matters worse, it’s a full on day when I really don’t want to be fuzzy brained, and I often end up with a rushed and less than perfect lunch. I also work in a room full of…
Fruiting planting days through until Monday, and it is such perfect garden weather – such a contrast to last weekend – that you would think the garden gods are conspiring to get me planting peas instead of spinach!
The first of the season’s broccoli. Not quite the first – I’ve cut a couple of heads early, before they were really ready – but the first full size head. This is Calibri variety, and it will keep bearing side shoots for a couple of months.
I do draw the line at Cointreau for breakfast, and I like breakfast pancakes to be higher protein and lower fat and sugar than desserts. But with a bit of tweaking, Crepes Suzette work perfectly for a citrus season Breakfast Cereal Challenge recipe.
I’m a sucker for a baby plant! It’s a mistake I make over and over – resisting wasting a cute little seedling, planting too much in the early rounds and not leaving enough space for the later rounds.
Winter salad/summer salad, and not a single ingredient in common.
The hollandaise sauce looks so decadent, but it truly takes just 2 minutes to make and has just a teaspoon of butter per serve. It’s a very tasty way to add a bit of protein to the breakfast. I’m harvesting the first of the season’s spinach now.
This time of year is a glorious season for leafy greens for salads and stir fries and sauteéd greens.
Onions are strongly day-length sensitive, so you need to choose your onion variety not by your climate but by your latitude.
The actual solstice is not until the early hours of Wednesday morning, but since this is the closest weekend, we celebrated last night, and I had to share my gift with you. I have been grumbling so relentlessly lately about the turkeys and bower birds raiding my garden, that it inspired Henry, a most magnificent scarecrow.