Mike Nolan
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We had salads and then tomato and salami sandwiches, both with tomatoes from the garden. I picked 2 dozen 4th of July small tomatoes today, most of them about the size of a ping pong ball. I see some bigger tomatoes on the other varieties, but they haven't started ripening yet.
We've had some more cool weather overnight lately, in the low 60's, that probably means more fruit will have set, so maybe September will be a good month for tomatoes here. I should be picking a big bowl of 6-10 ounce tomatoes every day or two by now. But I'm told most of the gardens in town are not doing well with tomatoes; too cold, then too hot, and too dry.
We have parts of the state in extreme drought conditions, including some western counties that have never been in that situation. Crop yield estimates keep going down, some farmers have lost entire fields due to the drought and extreme heat.
The Wall Street Journal had a story the other day about how ranchers are culling their herds because they can't afford to feed them, that could have a multi-year impact on the amount of beef on the market, and thus on prices.
August 11, 2022 at 10:04 am in reply to: 2022 Hummingbird Migration Underway (and other birds) #35920You're in the central US migration flight path in Indiana, the migration just recently started there. We're in the western portion of the US (eg, east of the Rockies) migration flight path, it is just starting here, too. We've been seeing one or two hummingbirds all summer, though, so I think we had one nesting nearby, we've been seeing her two or three times a day. There's a known ruby throat hummingbird nesting area near Columbus NE, so they do sometimes nest in Nebraska.
Or low tea. (High tea is essentially dinner, low tea is a light late afternoon snack; the high and low has to do with the height of the table on which it is served.)
The online pizza party was fun, I admit.
We had burgers on the grill and sweet corn tonight.
Unfortunately, we're kind of spread out all over the place.
We had sweet corn, steak with sauteed mushrooms and a baked potato.
Nice photo of the shrimp.
Sometimes I'm convinced there's a giant statue at the western border of Lancaster County with a hand held out, directing storms to the North and South of us. The Colossus of Lincoln!
It was 59 this morning and isn't supposed to get above the mid 70's until after lunch. Nice having the patio door open for a few hours.
My neighbor's wife said they're really enjoying the cinnamon rolls. They must be spacing them out carefully, I finished the last of ours yesterday. But she said their grandchildren were coming over today, and that'll probably finish them off. I will have to make another batch in a week or two--to test out the cheese slicer method, of course. (That's my story and I'm sticking to it!)
Tonight's ratatouille came out very good, for a change it didn't come out soupy.
I topped half of it with some mozzarella cheese, that made it taste a lot like lasagna. My wife said all it needs is the mushrooms.
I'll have lots of white eggplant over the next few weeks, next time I may make a somewhat larger batch in the style of a layered lasagna--with mushrooms, of course.
I'm making a batch of ratatouille today. Not sure what else we're having for supper, probably some sweet corn and maybe tomato and salami sandwiches.
I ordered a wire-blade cheese cutter that should work for cinnamon rolls, I will report on how well it works.
I've worked with a few high hydration doughs, Peter Reinhart has a baguette dough that is around 80% hydration as I recall. This one seems like a serious challenge, one I will likely attempt once the weather cools off a bit.
There are some high hydration pizza doughs I've been meaning to try, too.
So far all we've gotten is a sprinkle or two, the temp dropped about 10 degrees but the humidity went up at least that much. Still some chances of rain overnight, but it probably won't amount to much.
We had NY strip steak on the grill, corn on the cob, baked potato and sauteed mushrooms.
Next month is our 50th anniversary, but I think it's going to be a fairly quiet event for us, our kids are on the opposite ends of the country and there's nobody in Lincoln who was at the wedding in 1972, at least not that we're still in contact with.
There's rain in the forecast, but I'm not hopeful of getting much here.
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