Replies

We can’t grow sweet potatoes up here without a lot of black plastic, prayer and HEAT, so I’ve never tried them.

I haven’t grown them myself, but they take a good, long growing season; 120 days, I think? Count forward from when you planted them and I’d wait until those number of days have passed, along with the yellowing of the leaves and stem tips.

For almond paste lovers only------includes me and Diana.
Makes the home cook an accomplished French confectioner.
These keep well, make lovely homemade gifts. Store friged 2 weeks.

Orange Almond Paste Truffles / makes 32 Truffles

PREP COATING Melt 8-12 oz best bitter couverture chocolate in bain over simmering water.

PREP FILLING knead zested orange, 1 1/2 tsp orange liqueur, brandy or vanilla, 10 oz tube almond paste
by hand (or elec/mixer/paddle). Shape into small balls w/ teaspoon or small scoop; set on w/paper-lined sheetpan.

ASSEMBLY singly dip into melted chocolate then roll in chp toasted almonds; harden on w/paper-lined sheetpan.

VARY Add 1-2 tea vanilla, raspberry or orange liqueur or rosewater in place of citrus.

Pro tip for gardeners which I learned the hard way today.

Wake up, no breakfast.
Four string cups of coffee in 3 hours.

Working in hot sun gardening, digging out blackberry bushes for 3 hours.

Eat a nectarine.
Sip too little water.

Haul wood chips 1 hour.

Run weedeater around garden 30 min..

Build new trellis for new direct seeding peas and beans.

Hand till a raised bed which was so dried o out water ran straight through to bottom without the dirt clods soaking any of it up....1 hr in sun (yes...wearing my 360 brim gardener hat.)

Plant pea, beans, winter squash....tranaplant Italian kale, Swiss chard, lettuce (in shady area planting bed.)

I started at 9 a.m. 430 pm....drink two ice cold Shiner Bock beers... finished at 445 pm.

Go inside, eat 2 dill pickles and drink 3 cups of dill pickle juice.

Daughter made chicken stir fry...eat a big bowl with large helping of Siracha sauce.

I wonder why my stomach is upset ..dehydrated and acidic stomach...ugh.

Ice cold Bodhizafa beers in the shade seem to be helping.