...and with enough salad dressing, ANYTHING can be a ‘salad!’ :)
I love salad. All kinds, and all dressings. I want to find a copy of that salad recipe book you shared before. I haven’t looked yet, but it’s on my list.
Ranch chicken is good stuff. I've drizzled Italian over chicken leg quarters and cooked it in a Dutch Oven over an open fire and that was good. Chicken leg quarter salad.
Just got back from the grocery store and they're loaded up with plants, including nice looking 8" tall Shisito peppers. Fist time I've seen them but we're a little behind out here in MO. Just looked at the receipt. $1.50 per 4" pot. I grabbed a couple and will be headed back for more, plus maters. (screw Bonnies and Lowes with their $6 per plants prices)
At $1.50 a plant, I'm growing as much as or more than last year durnit. They had a LOT of different tomato varieties, all good looking plants. I may do paste tomatoes after all. Don't have a food mill but stewed tomatoes works for me.
I was starting to get depressed, spending, spending, spending but hardly growing anything.
Also grabbed a mini bell pepper plant called mini snack aka lunch box, and a Carolina Reaper which held the Guinness record for Scoville Heat Units until 2023
I'll wrap something around the tunnel frame to exclude the goats and grow stuff down the middle so I can still work around the outside. $125 worth of pipe plus $25 for connectors this week and I can do the truss diagonals. I already have the horizontal pieces. I have enough misc field fence I can double up and have some chain link too to exclude goats. Won't be pretty but will work.
That reminds me; I need to go to the other grocery store and see what they have for seed potatoes. The goats won't mess with nightshades because they're poisonous to them.(they will eat tomato fruits though) I can grow a couple of rows on one side of the tunnel. They nibble on other poisonous plants around here but know their limits. Last batch of taters I grew, they left them alone, but the chicken scratched up the soil looking for bugs and damaged half the tubers. She's gone now though.
Just had to look at the receipt again. 1 @ 2/3.00 four times. So ya don't even have to buy an even number. Yeah, I'm going back for more of whatever they have in that size pot which is something the cashier mentioned. Didn't care about what the plant was. Just that size pot and scanned one barcode for all of them.
And they had Snow Crab on sale for $9/lb so I grabbed a 2lb package and big bag of frozen fries. Dinner. My dad was a lobsterman so I try and have a meal of Crustacean for my birthday but everything was high priced last Nov. No such thing as Maine/Mass lobster here so crab is the closest thing and $9/lb wild caught from Canada ain't bad.
Grilling/smoking meats are starting to drop in price for Memorial Day. Get it while they got it. I've got a big dead hickory that needs to come down and will be years of smoking wood.