Posted on 04/01/2025 6:11:07 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Liz, it looks good! I could see them in a Fish Fry.
Liz, it looks good! I could see the zucchini biscuits in a Fish Fry.
Mmmmmm.....great idea.
The snow is only half of it. It is in the 30’s and the stuff is hard to get rid of. I am using a Cat Challenger 45 with an 8 foot Farrm King blower and when I can get a good bite it really throws it. The tractor is on wide rubber track which is usually fine but at a certain temp and with all this ice it starts to wipe its feet. It is starting to sprinkle on the snow and ice now so you take a chance of falling with every other step. Just another day in paradise. We have had ice underfoot since October.
You lucky dog! I grew one mexican papaya indoors, we have lots of windows. It got about 6 feet tall and flowered every year. I was too stupid to think it would have fruit. Donated it to the local botanical garden who was very happy to get it. It got taller than the top of the slider. They are very nutritious, high in potassium.
Actually, it’s not safe to crouch during a lightning storm
"As storm season gets underway in much of the United States, the National Lighting Safety Council is spreading awareness about some outdated safety information. “The crouch”—where you sit in a crouched squatting position with your hands over your head—is not the best course of action during a thunder and lightning storm" ...Snip... More at link
‘When thunder roars, go indoors.’
Sopa de farigola (thyme soup)
This classic soup from Catalonia, Spain, shines a light on the virtues of simple food. Thyme, with its savory intensity and anti-inflammatory properties, is the star of the show. Since there are so few ingredients, use the best you can get your hands on: fresh thyme (not dried), organic eggs and good olive oil.
Active time: 5 minutes
Total time: 20 minutes
Yield: 2 servings
3 cups water
1 stale loaf of bread
a generous fistful of fresh thyme sprigs
extra virgin olive oil
2 eggs
salt
ground black pepper
Pour 3 cups of water into a small pot and bring to a boil on medium high.
While waiting for the water to boil, cut 4-6 thin slices from a stale loaf of bread. Divide them between two soup bowls.
Once the water is boiling, add the thyme to the pot and reduce the heat to medium. Keep at a lively boil for 3 minutes.
While the thyme is boiling, generously drizzle olive oil over the bread in the soup bowls. Carefully crack an egg into each bowl, taking care not to include any shell.
Reduce the heat further to low and continue simmering the thyme for 3 more minutes.
Then, turn off the burner and carefully ladle 1 ½ cups of hot broth into each bowl through a mesh sieve, to catch the thyme leaves and stems. Break the yolk in each bowl with a spoon and gently stir. Season with salt and black pepper.
Cover each bowl with a saucer or inverted bowl so the hot broth can cook the egg.
Let stand for another 3 minutes.
After three minutes, uncover the soup. Check the seasoning and add salt, if needed. Serve immediately.
Note: Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness, especially if you have certain medical conditions.
Papaya’s require at least one male. If you get two trees, it’s a 50/50 chance one will be male and one female. Three trees increases your chances of having papayas.
Papaya seeds are one of the most powerful botanical internal parasite killers that exists. It’s right up there with black walnut.
Well, we’re in the middle of a big storm. We went to the basement when the tornado siren went off, but we already suspected that because the lights were blinking and the wind and rain was CRAZY. We lost power (it’s still off) but I was fully charged and still managed to have one bar of LTE on my cell phone. My emergency lights all worked like a charm. Very nice to have some light when it gets dark so fast. One minute we were listening to EWF and the next we were scrambling for safer spaces.
After 30 minutes it stopped sounding awful, so now we are back upstairs in the family room. No power, but we’re good. I’ve tethered my iPad to my iPhone, so still have contact with the outside world. And I’m back up to 5G up here on the main level of our house!
If no power in another hour, we will go set up the generator. The rain should stop by then. We have 2 fridge/freezer combos, and one full freezer. Can’t lose that food. It would be at least hundreds of dollars of food. Maybe even a thousand or so.
Hope you feel a ton better very very soon!
Storming here tonight. No power but I’m tethered to my iPhone.
We had heavy winds during the day today, and warm temps, around 74! Then the storms came and we think we are past the worst of it. I hope the power crews get things back on soon, but I think it will be for our whole town this time, instead of just our neighborhood (which loses power pretty frequently when there are winds - so many mature trees here.) We have a generator and will start that if nothing comes back on in an hour.
Some of the redbuds around here are just starting to blossom. I can see my lilac shrub has a few buds on it, too. I’m relieved about that, because it had a second bloom last Fall, which was crazy.
The tulips are starting to get their blossoms. They won’t open up for a couple of days, at least. One of my tarragon plants is beginning to really get growing now. I can start harvesting a little bit. I make eggs with mushrooms, shallots, gruyere and tarragon pretty often when it’s in season. Add a slice of toasted marble rye, and you have a breakfast feast! (Even more so if you add ham or bacon!)
It’s very quiet here now. I think it is quiet enough to go to bed without worrying.
The Lemon Soup must be worth a try.......who doesnt like lemon?
When this came through the KC area the wind gusts were a bit like something slammed on the house, and the house would creak and groan. It was disturbing, like something in a horror film. Gusts were up to 75MPH, so just below hurricane force. We caught one corner of the storm as it passed so it did not last long.
This is a dangerous storm.
(Sure you are aware of this already, but make certain that your generator is outside so that you are not breathing exhaust!)
I might modify it to see if she can tolerate it.
Papaya plants are like walnut trees, they have a Gender, so it might be necessary to have 2 or 3 plants to produce fruit.
Determining the gender of your Papaya
However, here is a video that I have not watched that says you can do a gender reassignment with a male papaya!
Male Papaya Gender Reassignment
Number one....You will probably have a lot of papaya, unlike the people up north who do not have room for a forest, so it will probably not be an issue for you!
Papaya....Should have read a bit further. You already covered the gender thing!
Interesting I did not know that about the seeds. I have a grocery store one on the counter right now. I assume dry the seeds ten grind them? Any tips? Thanks.
Thanks for the info Pete. The big one I grew was a few decades ago. I was pretty ignorant then.
Mango Meringue Pudding
Ing 4 large mangoes peeled and stoned, fine-chp 2, puree 2 cardamom to taste fine-grated zest and juice of 2 limes conf sugar 4 tbl brandy 1/4 c double cream 4 meringue shells, lightly crushed mint sprigs
Method mix 2 pureed mangoes, 2 finely chp mangoes, then spoon into 8 glasses. Mix well cardamom, lime zest and juice, conf sugar and brandy; then add cream and whip to hold its shape. Fold in crushed meringues. Spoon cream atop mango, garnish w/ chp mango. Can do 1 hr ahead. Serve with mint sprigs.
RECIPE TIPS Don’t make too far in advance – meringue will start to dissolve.
Or make day ahead, without meringues; serve whole on the side to eat separately.
Heh - particularly the part in magenta (”Level 5” risk of severe storms), AND the part mapped to get 10” to 15” of rain. We got the “Level 5” last night*, with a good start on the rain.
*The Cape Girardeau CBS TV Station, KFVS-12, had 27 tornado warnings simultaneously at one point. They also had a large wedge tornado skip right over their broadcast studio building, sending their entire staff including their head meteorologist, broadcasting the coverage, to their basement.
Per a camera on top of an antenna tower @ the studio - I assume it sends the signal to their OTA tower some miles away - as the tornado approached, one could see transformer flashes going off. Per a Facebook post later, by one of the staff, head met guy stayed on (presumably a wireless) mic and stood part way up the stairs so he could receive cell signal (radar, warnings) and continue coverage. Fortunately, the twister did skip, right over Cape Girardeau, but there is considerable damage in Delta, MO, just to the southwest. The anchorette for KFVS was still shaking when they did their newscast @ 10 pm... A couple vids of this storm are here:
The Cape G storm later either went just passed or right over a campground @ Ferne Clyffe State Park in IL. I’ve not seen further reports there, yet.
A bit after the Cape storm, another tornado was headed right for Paducah, KY, after injuring 4 people in Ballard County*, KY, then taking out a church @ the south side of the airport (McCracken County) and sending the NWS-Paducah staff to THEIR shelters: That one lifted / weakened just before entering Paducah.
*Apparently they took shelter in their car in a brick carport @ another church. The storm replied by picking up a storage shed and tossing it across the parking lot and into the carport too...
An hour(?) later, another large tornado, with one of the best defined “debris balls” you’ll ever see on radar, skipped just as it got to the southwest side of Murray, KY, among other things sending the students in the dorms @ MSU to THEIR shelter areas. So, Murray and the college were spared too.
It will be very interesting to see the tornado tracks when NWS Paducah posts its report in a few days, but, I’d say our region was very fortunate to not have heavy damage in one of those larger towns. SFAIK, there was only 1 fatality.
Next, the region (SEMO, NE Arkansas, S. IL, W KY, and NW TN) is set for 3 days of Level 2-3 severe storms risk, and (still) perhaps a foot of rain. NWS is warning of flooding in places with no records of flooding, and given that last night’s storms overproduced on the rain, I’m inclined to take NWS seriously. My ditch clearing yesterday morning helped here, some, and I did a (much quicker) repeat earlier this morning as a few more small branches and other debris blew into the ditch last night. At least most of the branches the county left up in the trees after their “trimming operation” are finally down. I have enough oak, hickory, and a little maple, out of it, for grilling, for all summer and fall. The rest of the stuff will make a nice big bonfire at some point... It’s a bit tricky to get it dried out enough to burn well and not have us in a burn ban period. Right now, that’s the least of my worries, and plenty of people likely wish they only had my worries. :-(
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