February 25, 2008
Holy Tomatoes, Batman!
Roughly 24 hours later, the progress on the bounteous bounty is staggering! Look at those puppies go! You can practically see and hear them growing in this still picture!
Entries from February 2008
February 24, 2008
Bounteous Bounty Abounds
Don’t look now, onions, but the Black Plum tomatoes are hot on your tail!
It’s Day 7, and we can barely keep up with all these plants!
February 22, 2008
Houston, We Have Onions
Day Four of the Bounteous Bounty revealed the following signs of bounteousness:
We’ll be eating Maple Hoo Onions before we know it!
February 18, 2008
The Bounteous Bounty Begins
Five days ago, Maple Hoo Garden looked like this:
Looking across that imposing blanket of snow (yes, yes, Gentle Reader, we know, all that snow was gone less than 12 hours later) it’s hard to comprehend that in six months, that same space will be a green, leafy, vine-y wonderland. Also hard to believe? [...]
February 17, 2008
Is It Summer Yet?
Today I made another cocktail from The Ultimate Bar Book. It’s a Haitian Cooler, and you just put one lemon wedge, two lime wedges, two tangerine wedges and a tablespoon of sugar in the bottom of a glass and muddle it all. Then top with ice, top with two ounces of Rhum Barbancourt [...]
February 17, 2008
Slow-Cooked Saturday
Last night was the final night of my Week Of Trying, which meant it was time for a new recipe for a pasta dish (since Saturdays are our traditional wine-and-pasta-and-hockey nights). I decided to go to the always-reliable Marcella Hazan for something exciting and unlike what we normally eat on Saturdays, and The Essentials [...]
February 16, 2008
What To Do With Mountains Of Butt Steaks
The biggest challenge (and most exciting new recipe) of my Week Of Trying this past week came from Bruce Aidell’s Complete Book of Pork, for Beer and Mustard Braised Chops. The recipe was for a fattier chop than your standard pork chop, and specifically suggested getting “4 butt steaks” that were all 1 1/2 [...]
February 15, 2008
This Doesn’t Look Like Real Cornbread To Me
So last night I promised Pookie and Boomer that I would make cornbread to go with leftover chili for dinner. I’d done it before where I added some corn that I’d frozen over the summer and it was scrumptious. This time, though, not so much. I guess I ended up adding too [...]
February 12, 2008
Step 2 In A Week Of Trying
So this week I’m actually making an effort, and have plans to cook some actual, thought-out meals on more than one day. Most weeks I make one reasonably involved dish and six cop-outs. So far this week I’ve done turkey burgers (on a night I went grocery shopping after work, might I add!), [...]
February 11, 2008
Think Smaller… And With More Legs
We don’t ever eat fast food in these here parts, in large part because there is no fast food in these here parts. In its stead, I will often find myself, on a cooking-lazy day, making turkey burgers for dinner. Of course, like the Krusty Burger Ribwich, my turkey burgers are not made [...]
