We're not fond of kale, and there isn't any spinach in Aerogarden yet, when we replant it, we'll probably do some spinach along with various lettuces.
But a salad with the chicken and rice sounds good to me. And there's apple pie.
I made our pie yesterday, so we can eat it today!
We had artichokes and apple pie.
We had a lavash pizza last night, with tomato chunks (instead of sauce), mushrooms, artichoke hearts, havarti, mozzarella and a sprinkling of 4 cheese blend.
We ate the whole thing, usually there's a piece or two left, but this one was REALLY good.
I am making an apple pie today, using more of the Cosmic Crisp apples I bought a few weeks ago that I've kept in the fridge. One of them developed a bad spot, the others appear just fine. The apple pie filling recipe I used (from SFBI) uses about 1125 grams of sliced apples, which is about 5 Cosmic Crisp apples.
I bought a bag of Bob's Red Mill white pastry flour and I'm seeing how that compares to the King Arthur pastry flour for pie crusts.
Cabbage is on sale this week, so I bought 3 heads of it and I'll make a batch of sauerkraut from them.
I bought a couple of artichokes the other day, too, but we haven't made them yet.
Semolina breads can range from really soft to very firm, its largely in the shaping and baking.
I'm not sure what he did to get aphids, his Aerogarden is in his basement laundry room which does have an exterior door, maybe they came in that way?
Our house plants get a variety of bugs from time to time, too. We're going to have to be more careful watching them ourselves now because the guy who's been tending to our plants for the last 8 years or so passed away last month.
I'm not sure how much longer we'll be getting lettuce from our Aerogarden, but I'm leaning towards starting more lettuce plants once the current plants stop producing. Even with the Aerogarden in a south-facing window, it is still more temperate inside in summer than in the yard.
I've got some cherry tomato pods that came with it, but we don't eat a lot of cherry tomatoes, and I think I'd rather grow lettuce and maybe some spinach. Besides, if the current lettuce plants keep producing for another month or two (the Aerogarden FAQ files suggest you can get up to about 5 months from lettuce and herbs), by the time we start getting cherry tomatoes it'll be close to the point where we get real tomatoes from our garden. The dill has grown well above the lights and bloomed, I'm curious to see if it sets seed.
I've grown cherry tomatoes in the garden a few times, we usually get overwhelmed with them, because it is hard to eat more than a handful a day. I have discovered that if you blanch them and freeze them, they work well in batches of stock.
I'm still deciding about tomato plants, but need to get them started some time this month.
The temperature dropped about 20 degrees here between 3PM and 5PM, and it is expected to be in the low 30's tonight and then highs in the 40's or 50's for another week. Typical spring weather.
But the person who helps with our gardening did get the garden beds cleaned out.
It was in the high 70's here today.
I'm making another batch of semolina bread today.
I'm going to need to make semolina bread soon, maybe tomorrow.
I just got the course material for next Sunday's class on bread scoring, now I need to decide if I want to have some dough ready to practice on during the class or wait until afterwards.
Good prime rib is hard to find, often overcooked, and the marinade is important, too many of them are mostly salt.
