Posted on 12/04/2021 7:27:01 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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Lunch? Egg Salad, it is! :)
I will try that next time I make spaghetti.
I boil the spaghetti in a pot, then use a colander to get the water out and put the spahetti back into the hot pot.
I pour the sauce into a fry pan and heat it up, and then pour the heated sauce into the spaghetti pot and stir it up.
I will put the garlic cloves into the heated up sauce and give it a try.
I try to keep my meals simple, so I will eat right out of the pot. -Tom
The “Bigger Better Butternuts” from 2020 are reaching the end of their storage life. They were picked early last October, so that means they’re about 14 months old. So, definitely a good survival crop! The “Great Lakes Shark Fin” squash are lasting even longer. Those look, and feel, the same as the day I picked them.
Today I’m harvesting seeds from a bunch of squash. The BBB seed is going to the Experimental Farm Network for packaging and sale. Some of the others I’ll put a few packets in my seed stash, and use the rest as sprouting greens. I’m not really a “greens” person, but I’m trying to improve my diet without spending much, and the squash seeds are already there.
I’ve been a little reckless with my seed ordering this season. Normally I spend weeks pouring over the catalogs, making lists, culling the lists, comparing prices, etc. This year I keep getting the feeling that we’re in for a bigger seed shortage than ever before, so I’ve been ordering things as I find them. I really hope this premonition is wrong.
If you plan to buy fertilizers and whatnot, get your orders in soon. There’s already a shortage. If you know how to improve the soil without buying stuff, even better.
I unloaded the eggs on a picnic table that was on the way to the dog pen. I think I would have had scrambled eggs in my pocket if they’d gone on the walk with the dog! I definitely missed that warmth in my pocket.
Something I discovered this past week ... a recipe for low carb sausage gravy. Instead of serving on biscuits, to keep things low carb, you serve over scrambled eggs. Really good - takes eggs to another level!
Ha! Cookie Pants!
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Hello from balmy Buford, Georgia where it was 73degrees today!
Now I want Spaghetti, LOL! :)
“Bigger Better Butternuts”
Glad you had so much success with those. Since it’s just we two, I’m totally into ‘Honeynut’ myself. A much smaller version that doesn’t last as long, of course. Got about 24 to process right now, and I still didn’t finish the pie pumpkins yet, (’Small Sugar Sugar Pie’ from Livingston Seed) but they’re good keepers. I have some smaller pumpkins, as well as all the ‘decorative’ squash I grew and those are going into one of the food plots for wildlife, so nothing will be wasted. The steer was sampling them the other day. ;)
“If you plan to buy fertilizers and whatnot, get your orders in soon. There’s already a shortage. If you know how to improve the soil without buying stuff, even better.”
Excellent advice. I really was at the bottom of my ‘buckets of stuff’ at the end of the season, so at a minimum I need more bone meal and I’ve already started saving egg shells for crunching up for next season to feed to tomatoes, peppers, zukes & cukes.
Manure around here is NOT a problem. Weber and Ithaca do a fine job of providing that. In fact, as I was shoveling out kennels (I don’t use dog poop!) the other day, I was reminding myself that the chore becomes MUCH more tolerable once the temperature drops below freezing, LOL!
Beau has been moving Weber around The Manse, as there is STILL green grass to eat (December 4th!) so he’s cleaning up after him and tossing the flops right into my big compost pile.
Such LUXURY! Doesn’t take much to make me happy, LOL!
Poison Ivy. Goats. eat it. You can rent a herd. Deer like it too but I am not thinking its easy to herd deer.
https://askinglot.com/what-animals-can-eat-poison-oak
73 and sunny is my favorite weather!
Beau was just giving me the weather updates - SNOW in Hawaii! Of course, on the mountain that is at 13,000 feet, but it’s early.
Sub-zero temps for our friend who lives in Alaska. Also early this year.
We’re supposed to have a colder than normal Winter. I’d just like a lot of fluffy, sparkly snow to play in, Please! My snowshoes have NOT had much of a workout these past few Winters.
Better be careful what I wish for, though. ;)
Thx...yea...goats, but looks like we’d have to have our own herd...hard to get anyone to loan them out.
Yea..I once wished I could cross country ski from our back porch. ..my husband got sent on a project (me too) for 18+ months in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
Yeah. That's a little TOO much, even for me up here on, 'The Frozen Tundra.'
try this little step next time. Before you put your sauce in that fry pan, put in some olive oil then shave a few cloves of peeled garlic really thin, the thinner the better. Some use a straight edge razor blade. Heat the oil and add the garlic and stir until it gets lightly brosn and then add your sauce. It will add wonderful flavor.
Well...you cold fence get a permit from the state and raise deer. Venison probably tastes better than goat! (Never had goat!) Good luck!
Thanks for the tip.
I will try that out too. -Tom
Just had to.
Good morning. Not much going on in the garden. The coleus finally died back. Much colder temperatures are probably to blame. I did take some cuttings and now have three rooted cuttings of this hard to find lime green coleus potted in soil and I’ll have new plants for the spring.
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