Posted on 06/20/2014 12:30:26 PM PDT by greeneyes
I don’t know how ‘safe’ my julienne peeler will be .... maybe I should invest in a pair of “stainless steel mesh” gloves to keep from cutting off a finger .....just kidding (I think)!
Definitely want to try some of the recipes on the website that was linked to the Dak Galbi recipe you made a while back with one of your T squashes. It won’t be tonight - just spent 3 hours in the heat on a project and I’m wiped out .... I think I’m about medium well done at this point. Whew.
I think the Vegetti could be used as a torture device worthy of Jack Bauer on 24..Just stick about three fingers in it, and twist away.
I sauteed up some of my T squash with half an onion and a tiny little Ichiban eggplant, then made a ‘sauce’ to put over it (leftover ingredients from making stroganoff), spiced it up with some Mrs. Dash Italian Herb mix and cayenne, topped it with a little Parmesan and you know what? I am a very happy camper! The texture of the Trombetta is just wonderful - I like the firmness & it's not watery. It takes on the taste of whatever you've got in the pan with it. I'm hooked - will definitely want these in future gardens.
I read today that Thomas Jefferson grew Tromboncinos, and Cucuzzi at Monticello. Fact or Fiction, I know not, but it said they are still grown there in the gardens.
The Founding Fathers (or one of them) would be proud of us.
The Founding Fathers (or one of them) would be proud of us.
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Love it!
BTW, are you familiar with the Hyacinth Bean Vine? Beautiful purple flowers and reddish purple seed pods. Some folks say they’re edible, but most folks just use them for ‘decoration’. Anyway, Monticello sells the bean seeds because they grow them on arbors and get a lot of questions/requests. The flowers really attract bees, too. We’ve grown them - I’ll find a pic and post it to you.
Those are really lovely.I just googled them, and I see what you mean about edible or non-edible. Lots of opinions on them.
Beautiful!
These are just gorgeous. A neighbor had them last year, and we planted them this year, because they are so delicate and striking. I read they are poisonous, though, unless they are boiled a long time. I think I’ll just let them be for show. :)
What a beautiful bloom. All your photos are so gorgeous. I’m afraid I’m a failure at squash, yet I love all of them so much.
I am somewhat embarrassed to reveal the depth of my cucuzza craziness, but I just went outside with a flashlight, and my one baby C is now a preteen..It might be a teenager by the morning. I spotted another one that also appears to have grown since I spotted it today. At that point, I decided I should not be up on an eight foot ladder at one in the morning.You are funny, sockmonkey. Always enjoy your comments. I was out tonight not quite as late, but with a flashlight to send a few slugs to an early demise. Not as much fun as looking at curcuzzas, but it needed to be done. Heartbreaking, as our lettuce was doing so beautifully. I found ten of those little devils tonight; have you ever had slugs, and if so, what did you find worked best?
I have never tried growing paprikas. If you are able to grow them in the Ozarks, maybe I can too. I use tons of paprika in all my spicy recipes.
I hope we don’t start getting lots of those kinds of kitties here. Repopulating settled areas with bears, cougars, wolves etc, just isn’t a very good idea to me, but I guess that some people feel it’s needed.
My computer is having lots of problems. I still have windows xp, so I guess that is why. We are waiting till Hubby’s computer and the spare get out of the shop before we do anything to this one.
I think he is having withdrawal symptoms. My roses aren’t doing well. Not sure why. Maybe because we put up guttering, and they don’t get as much rainwater, because the bed gets no runoff from the roof now.
After garlic, I like to plant beans and watermelons. A sugar baby melon will mature in around 60 days, and they don’t really like cold damp weather. So melons would be a warm weather crop to me. Also sunflowers hate the damp and cold. Most corn dislikes cold weather. That’s just some.
I actually looked for an old fashioned wringer that I could mount on a saw horse or something to use, but they want too much money for something that I would only use for emergencies.
I’m going to keep my eye out the next time I go to the local old junk shops.
Such outstanding progress! I hope it all pays off too. That’s really nice catnip for the shelter. We don’t have a local shelter or animal control authority.
We do have feral cats and stray dogs that come through, but they usually don’t stay. Except we do have a feral black cat that manages to survive and have babies now and then.
For most of the time we have also been cooler than usual.
Life is indeed good. LOL
I am often mistified by why plants do great one year and not the next and vice versa. Sometimes I figure it out, other times it remains a mystery.
We have weeds growing in places where the ground has been bare as a bone for years. Thanks for the links.
Just remember The G in garden is just like the G in Goldilocks. They both like stuff to be just right.LOL
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