Posted on 04/25/2020 6:49:47 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Do I have a car for you!!
If I'm wrong on the nest ID, please let me know. Nature astounds me every day.
I don’t recognize it right off. Here is a tool to help identify it. Maybe, LOL!
https://weedid.wisc.edu/weedid.php
Grilled Corn with Bell Pepper Butter
Ingredients 6 ears corn, K/s/p. Bell Pepper Butter: 2 sticks butter
1/4 cup ea fine-diced green, orange, red bell peppers 1/4 tsp black pepper
METHOD Set corn cobs on individual foil pieces. Add 1/2 tb Bell Pepper
Butter, s/p to each. Wrap tightly. Grill 6 min, turning halfway through.
Bell Pepper Butter: Proc/combine butter, bell peppers, black pepper.
Pile into ramekins and serve (or saran/chill til needed).
That pepper butter would be good on lots of things; in the winter months when we don’t have good sweet corn up here, you could us it on frozen corn, too.
I’d use my food processor to finely chop the peppers, then blend them and the spices with softened butter.
Would make a nice gift in a pretty jar and would freeze well too, I’d think?
Simply spread on good bread....then toast a bit......yum, yes?
An exceptional gift——since it’s not available in stores.
As I always say......the more vegetables the better.
Took 10 days for our order to get here. Chewy had the food in stock and waiting for pickup but FedEx does not consider dog food a priority so their hands were tied.
Last time I planted asparagus (30 years ago) our German short hair dug up the crowns and ate them. I can’t remember now what kind they were or where I bought them. Any suggestions as I’d like to try again.?
Thanks. That makes sense. Just waiting now on a bag of diet dry food for my chubby Beagle. It won’t hurt him to miss a meal, LOL!
(I would NEVER do that to my dog!) :)
I like ‘Martha Washington’ for an heirloom variety, and then any of the varieties with ‘Jersey’ in the name - they’ve been bread to be primarily male stalks, so you get a lot of bang for your buck. ‘Jersey King’ or ‘Jersey Supreme.’ You can mix them in the same bed.
I added the purple variety to my other patch, which looks beautiful on a veggie/dig platter, but it turns back to green once you cook it. :(
The older I get, and the closer to Nature that I live, and the more I learn, the less crazy my 'Crazy Aunt Alice' seems to be. Thanks to her, I see 'food' everywhere! :)
Another asparagus question:
Should I “hill up” the soil where the little shoots are growing?
I planted them in a deep “V” and filled the shoots in as they first came up.
I am so stealing that picture he looks great! Brings back great memories, every spring our Saanen (white) goats would shed, liked to rub against the fence. We would find their hairs in many birds nest’s.
We like the jersey varieties too. Martha Washington never did well here. Skinny stalks and they did no hold up well.
If you planted them in a ‘V’ and filled it in, they should be fine. You’ll see that once established they’re basically a weed. Granted, a DELICIOUS weed, but still a weed, LOL!
I have 6 shoots up so far. One of the dogs broke one off running through there, so I ate it. :)
I mulch lightly in the summer months, and then after I trim off the dead fronds, I put a good 6” of straw on top to get them through the winter - but it’s much colder up here than down by you, so you may not need as much winter protection.
SAGE LEAVES IN ALMOND TEMPURA
ING few handfuls of sage leaves destalked, 80g flour, 20g ground almonds, 25ml beer, s/p, veg oil.
METHOD Wash thoroughly; discard those w/ black speckles.
BATTER Mix flour and ground almonds, pinch s/p. Whisk in beer to pancake batter consistency.
COOK Cover frypan bottom with veg/oil; set on flame and heat. Once hot, dip sage leaves in tempura batter and place
carefully in pan one by one not touching. Turn using two forks. Once golden on both sides remove/drain. Add pinch of salt.
SERVE with dip as a healthy snack.
DIP combine small pot yogurt, lemon zest, lemon juice, s/p.
Just got a case of canned food I ordered from Chewy - still waiting on the diet kibble.
I should probably join Chief in eating only diet kibble, too, LOL!
Here is a list of results on YouTube for raised bed gardening in the desert.
https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=desert+vegetable+gardening%2C+raised+beds
I loooove YouTube videos!
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