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We finished off the BBQ beef on some keto buns that I had frozen.
Forgot to say I baked an apple pie last night.
March 28, 2024 at 9:13 pm in reply to: Washington Post story on vertical hydroponic gardening energy usage #42276My wife brings home lettuce from the hydroponics professor's test greenhouse every now and then, it's really good. (One of the varieties she got from him was so good I found out what the seed was and ordered it for my Aerogarden, where it grows very nicely.)
His tomatoes are incredible, big and tasty, and the plants are like 10 feet tall and keep getting longer as they grow, so the non-bearing part of the vine stretches several feet off to the side.
We had onion soup and a small slice of the apple pie I baked last night.
I have hot cross buns dough rising, enough for one batch of 16 and 3 batches of 8, all to give away tomorrow.
I'm making a big pot of onion soup today, using 10 pounds of onions and 3+ quarts of chicken stock.
I started 7 varieties of tomatoes today: First Lady II, Amish Paste, Italian Heirloom, 4th of July, Porter, Celebrity and Rutgers. Assuming enough of them sprout, the first 3 will each get a full row, the 4th of July and Porter will share a row as will the Celebrity and Rutgers.
I'll start some other vegetables next week, I should have 50 leek plants arriving soon. Our common plant for the urban gardening project this year is sweet corn. That'll be a new one for me, I've not grown corn, at least not intentionally. (The squirrels have planted some corn from critter corn we threw out for them that came up.) I don't know if I'll put in melons this year, but I may put in some eggplant and broccoli. Once I figure out where everything else goes, I'll decide if I want to do any zucchini or other squash.
I had a big salad from the Aerogarden with some turkey on it. Diane had some corned beef on a keto bun.
We had tuna salad on a bed of lettuce. I chopped up a small hothouse tomato as well, not really all that tasty but colorful and at least a hint of tomato flavor.
The buns were OK, but they had a taste I couldn't identify, maybe the flax meal? I will be tweaking this recipe over time, I suspect.
We each had a BBQ beef sandwich and a small salad.
I'm gonna make an apple pie this week with some of the apple pie filling that I defrosted. I figured out if we divide the pie into 16 pieces, they're under 25 carbs each.
If the buns I'm making come out OK, we'll have barbecue beef on them, the beef being what I pulled off the beef shanks used in the beef stock I made a few days ago.
So far they're looking good, I think the general technique just takes a bit of practice.
I'm making keto-friendly buns today, using my take on a recipe from the same site that had the rye bread recipe, which worked out fairly well but was too damp, so I'll keep an eye on them during baking. These would be 11 carbs (8 net carbs) per bun, which is pretty good for a 3 ounce bun.
Our resident fox has been showing up a lot lately, this afternoon he/she was rooting through the leaves at the back of the yard, probably hoping to scare up a mouse or vole.
Then the fox was staring up at the porch at the squirrels (we see the fox eating/drinking there overnight on our critter cam), and one of them was chittering back at the fox. Later I saw a squirrel run up onto the back porch and jump up on the brick ledge, with the fox sticking his head up the stairs trying to figure out where the squirrel went. Then I saw another squirrel climb up the wood fence at the back of the yard in a hurry, with the fox not far behind. I would not be surprised if the fox has caught a squirrel or two over time.
Whether there are kits nearby is something I don't know, I the the fox den is in our back fence neighbor's yard. (I know they leave food scraps out for the foxes, too.)
One of the sites I've been looking at has what looks like a promising recipe for a low-carb pizza crust using vital wheat gluten, so I'm hoping to have pizza some time in the next week or so. That may be our next splurge night meal.
This is the same site that I adapted the rye bread recipe from, and that worked out pretty good, except it was probably a bit underbaked and damp and it went moldy in less than a week. But I'll try it again with a better sized pan soon.
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