Oaxacan street food, a cross between a tostada and a pizza, made with a crispy tortilla, topped with refried beans, cheese, cabbage slaw, avocado and cilantro. Drizzle w/ Chipotle Mayo for heat.
Posted on 01/15/2022 6:47:06 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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“Our local Wal-Mart has had lots of lids recently so I buy some every time I am in there.”
I’m in the habit now, too. I’ve got plenty of jars, and plenty of rings. Will just need the lids for a good number of years, now.
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I’m retired from The Gardening Biz. Thank you for taking care of your Mom. I took care of my 84 year old Dad for 12 years; he passed in 2020 from Cancer.
Thanks for adding that information. Never thought I would be, but now I’m hooked on growing potatoes, and I always have nuts and seeds in a bowl in the kitchen to grab a quick handful.
That potato method sounds great! It would work well in my ‘Big Garden’ and look a lot better than the weedy mess that I had last year, for sure!
I keep trying to expand my berry patches. If the ones I added last year survive the winter, I’ll finally have enough that I can expand using cuttings instead of buying new.
Half inch of rain then, snow started at about 8:30 this morning. Greetings from the big Lake...
I tried what I called bucket potatoes last summer. Mr. mm cut out the bottoms of some white plastic buckets and I used them and filled them with wood chips layered with some well composted manure.
I also had some on the ground, covered with straw.
The bucket potatoes did beautifully. Huge plants and a good crop, although I did notice that they do NOT grow potatoes all the way up along the stem.
The plants were not bothered much by tomato hornworms like the ones planted on the ground. Don’t know why.
The ones under the straw are half eaten, I’m guessing by slugs when I dug them up. I did not have that problem with the bucket ones as I doubt the slugs like wood chips.
This past summer, mr. mm replaced some culvert pipe and cut those into sections for potatoes. They have a larger diameter than the buckets so I will be able to plant a couple layers of potatoes. I figure that getting two or maybe even three layers of potatoes per square foot, per culvert pipe, will give me a better yield per square foot.
Even if the ones on the bottom don’t produce quote as much because of the energy expended, I’ll get a better crop than putting them on the ground.
I also tried bucket carrots and that worked fairly well. Our soil is very rocky so I used peat moss and manure and got some beautiful carrots.
I may do a culvert pipe of carrots to see how those fair.
We are SO far removed from that, it’s ridiculous.
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Yup. Unfortunately, I see an exodus from ‘cities’ like rats abandoning a sinking ship if/when the shelves are empty for any length of time .... not necessarily a peaceful exodus, either .... I’ll leave unsaid my thoughts on what will happen if this occurs. I wish my family & I lived in a more remote location.
Where do you buy your hay or straw? I’ve looked online and locally and even reached out to you tubers saying how good it is in the garden and for weed control, but here they want over $9 a bale really???? lol. I was thinking more like Free. I’ve even asked horse supply or tractor supply and they were even more expensive.
Home Gardening for nutritious results, for body and mind
Includes access to Pollard"s prepper library in Post #16
as well as the "USDA’s National Center for Home Food Preservation" website
Knowledge is power !
Thanks 😄
Fab.......just fab.
Nice pictures. Beautiful amaryllis, I like the double ones. I also really like the curtains behind it. Love that material.
Everything is chopped and ready to go for supper tonight. Steaks on the grill, roasted veggies, salad and garlic toast.
Life Is Good! :)
You don’t want hay for mulching. It has seeds in it and will sprout on you.
Learned that one the hard way.
Straw is available but still not free and the cost depends on the agriculture in your area. In CNY it was $4-$6 a bail. Here in NH, it’s $8-$14 per bail.
Yummy!
See what taking a German class does to your English! (Nothing worse than looper riddled galleries all filled with their green poop eaten into cabbage!)
Weber???
Yum.........
Oaxacan street food, a cross between a tostada and a pizza, made with a crispy tortilla, topped with refried beans, cheese, cabbage slaw, avocado and cilantro. Drizzle w/ Chipotle Mayo for heat.
That looks pretty good to this carnivore.
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