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Both our front and back lawns were in pretty sad shape, so I've been replanting them. The back yard had a lot of bare patches, so I seeded the whole yard in microclover.
The front yard got both microclover and buffalo grass seed. (One of the professors at UNL in my wife's department is a grasses expert, he strongly recommends buffalo grass as a native grass that is heat and drought tolerant.)
I scarified the yard first to remove thatch and that also took out a lot of the weeds. Scarifying is like power raking but it digs a series of grooves about a half inch into the dirt to provide a place for seeds to take hold.
The back yard got the clover seed several weeks ago and the clover is doing well, I may not even need to reseed any bare patches. The front yard just got seeded on Tuesday, the clover may start showing up next week but the buffalo grass might take 2 weeks.
I tried putting in a few small areas of buckwheat, mostly along the east side, but I don't know if any of it took, so I might try it again soon. The year I rested the main vegetable garden area I put in buckwheat and it was so pretty, and the bees just loved it.
We had hot dogs on the buns I baked and I had some salad.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.We had salads again, I put some of the left over pork roast on mine.
I looked at Rick Bayless's recipe for mole. Aside from the fact that it called for several ingredients I've never seen in a store (even the ones that cater to the Hispanic community here), it was a very complicated recipe with lots of ingredients.
I've had his mole at his Chicago restaurant; it is very good, but I doubt I'd have the patience to make it. Mole from a jar seems good enough for me.
I haven't made a carrot soup with it, but I have a juicer that does a pretty good job grinding up the carrots, making it easier and faster to cook them. I have used the juicer to make vegetable stock. (I strained out the pulp from the veggies afterwards.)
I've mainly used the carrot juice to make carrot vinegar and have used the carrot pulp in a carrot cake that was really good. (That'd be a tricky thing to make low-carb, though.)
Dinner tonight was a salad (mine had tuna), two deviled eggs and a slice of cheesecake.
If he likes cheesecake, the on-the-stove cheesecake filling I used for my keto-friendly cheesecake (using allulose instead of sugar) is a good recipe, and if you allow it to warm up to room temperature it is really soft. Just skip the crust for him. (I sprinkled a few chopped pecans on the excess filling, Diane loved it.)
The recipe is on this YouTube page. Turn off your sound first, the soundtrack is really annoying.
One of my wife's favorite comfort foods when she's not feeling good is baked custard, which has protein from eggs and milk.
They need to be kept in the fridge, but you can let them sit out for a bit to warm back up to room temperature.
We had the keto-friendly pizzas for supper tonight.
I blinked last week and most of my asparagus went to seed already. I did get a few stalks and might get a few more, but the bulk of them were already 2 feet tall and branched out.
I didn't plant this asparagus patch, I planted one in the back yard and it didn't take, but one showed up in the front yard a few years later, probably courtesy of the birds.
My wife has participated in several of the feeder bird counts, she usually gets 20-25 species in about 4 hours, although the last one was on a cold rainy day and she got very few birds at all. (I think her year-long list is closer to 50 species.)
We have a number of woodpeckers in the yard, they were calling at each other this afternoon. We have some flickers as well--similar to woodpeckers but somewhat larger, they can eat from the suet feeder but not from the thistle feeders, their claws won't let them grab hold. Some of the starlings and grackles were able to figure out how to hold on to the suet feeder.
Technically not baking, since the filling is cooked on the stove, but I made another keto cheesecake today. That'll be dessert tomorrow and throughout the week. (And I got some lobster tails for dinner tomorrow.)
And I ordered another set of 4 English Muffin rings, along with a silicone hot dog pan so I can try making some keto hot dog buns using the same recipe I used for the burger buns (or a minor variant of it.)
I got a good shot of one with my telephoto lens today, definitely a Baltimore oriole. We had both Baltimore orioles and orchard orioles a year or two ago, though.
I've seen at least two adult rabbits in the yard, but I haven't spotted a nest anywhere. Last summer we had a younger rabbit that discovered the water on the deck for the birds and was there for a drink frequently.
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