[Mike Nolan]

I've got the next round of hydroponic tomatoes in the DWC buckets, (2 Estiva, 1 Celebrity and a double-stem of Celebration) and the plants are growing nicely, at least a half-inch a day. The tallest one is nearly 15 inches above the pot. I've been taking daily snapshots of them to watch the progress.

With luck this second run will be producing tomatoes by late December. I added more lights because I don't think they were getting enough light last time. I'm also switching fertilizers to the Masterblend 3 bag set (4-18-38 plus micronutrients, 15.5-0-0 plus calcium and epsom salt), this should provide more potassium than the liquid fertilizer from Aerogarden/Scotts (4-3-6), but I may supplement it when the blossoms start showing up. I'll watch for iron deficiency issues as well.

[Mike Nolan]

I had a sandwich, Diane had an omelet. boring dinners, I know.

[Mike Nolan]

My tomato garden is only about 12x15 feet.

[Mike Nolan]

We had salami and tomato sandwiches again tonight.

[Mike Nolan]

Boneless pork chops are pretty bland, smoked ones have more flavor.

When I do boneless pork chops, I make sure to make a pan sauce to add flavor. A simplified variant on Sauce Robert (white wine, mustard and pan drippings instead of demiglace) goes well with pork.

They're also very good with the tomato relish recipe I have on this site.

[Mike Nolan]

I had a sandwich, Diane had an omelet.

[Mike Nolan]

We had the leftover beef stroganoff on toast.

[Mike Nolan]

Diane had dinner out with her sister, step-sister and niece tonight, so I had a bowl of potato soup and a salad.

[Mike Nolan]

I'm making honey wheat bread tonight.

[Mike Nolan]

Flash frozen green beans are OK in soups, but not great in other dishes.

[Mike Nolan]

I'm probably having a burger on the grill, I've got 1/3 pound of ground beef that needs to be used up. Diane's picking up a sandwich after her chiropractor appointment, since she goes right past her favorite sandwich shop on the way home.

[Mike Nolan]

I had 8 ounces of sirloin steak to use up, so I made a beef stroganoff and we had that on toast.

[Mike Nolan]

The first full day of fall is a cool one, high of about 74 dropping into the mid-50's overnight, so I made potato leek soup with semolina croutons for supper.

A big high on the carbs (especially the croutons), but so good.

[Mike Nolan]

We had big salads with tuna fish tonight.

[Mike Nolan]

My wife's step-mother used to make toffee that was topped with Hershey bars. I've tried topping brownies with chocolate chips, I prefer making some kind of frosting, chocolate chips by themself are just kind of boring.

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