Food again
May. 25th, 2007 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidBoston Organics: large box, one third fruit.
And a dozen eggs.
Also, I was gifted with nine Meyer lemons. Does anyone have particular suggestions to show off their fabulousness?
The porch is not completely set up for the summer, but the heat has encouraged the arugula to set buds already (now pinched off; I'm mean and want them for their leaves), as well as leaves. The red leaf lettuce needs thinning, and the mints are going hog wild, as it were. I should harvest this afternoon.
Still to do: transplant the tomatoes and other herbs from the plant order (and deliver the rest to the community garden plot gardener), get more top-of-railing planters (the kind that sit over the railing on both sides, ie very stable), get more flowers and whatever else appeals. Also get the superfluous bits of wood and the plastic tarp put away in the basement.
Who ordered this weather?! Last week it was rainy and 40 F, today it's hazy, humid, and supposed to get up to 94 F! So I'm going for things that require little to no oven time, and/or are cooling.
So far, the menu plan is:
grape juice, challah
pine-nut hummus
deviled eggs
dilly cucumber salad
spicy cashew noodles
baked sweet potatoes
roasted cauliflower and zucchini
green salad (maybe)
freshly squeezed citrus juice (maybe)
sorbet, ice cream, fruit
The challah is rising (I added less yeast to compensate for the heat and humidity during the rise). I still have to bake them, but that's the last of the oven stuff, since the other baked veggies were done before work this morning. The cucumber salad is already marinating. I still have to make the spicy noodles (cooking the fresh noodles is fairly quick), hard boil the eggs (also, buy mayo), and squeeze citrus fruits, if I'm making a pitcher of juice. Really, it feels like mint lemonade weather, but I don't think I have enough lemons, and minted orange (etc.) juice sounds nasty, like drinking orange juice after brushing teeth.
Even if I don't make a green salad for tonight, I should pick some leaves from the porch to make one tomorrow. Also possible for tomorrow: tomato salad with scallions, chives, and feta and/or spicy turkey knishes (if and, for separate meals, of course!).
- a head of cauliflower
- a bag of sugar snap peas
- a box of white mushrooms
- a medium zucchini
- two large cukes
- a bunch of broccoli
- two medium Vidalia onions
- eight small sweet potatoes
- two peaches
- a box of strawberries
- six oranges
- four mandarins
And a dozen eggs.
Also, I was gifted with nine Meyer lemons. Does anyone have particular suggestions to show off their fabulousness?
The porch is not completely set up for the summer, but the heat has encouraged the arugula to set buds already (now pinched off; I'm mean and want them for their leaves), as well as leaves. The red leaf lettuce needs thinning, and the mints are going hog wild, as it were. I should harvest this afternoon.
Still to do: transplant the tomatoes and other herbs from the plant order (and deliver the rest to the community garden plot gardener), get more top-of-railing planters (the kind that sit over the railing on both sides, ie very stable), get more flowers and whatever else appeals. Also get the superfluous bits of wood and the plastic tarp put away in the basement.
Who ordered this weather?! Last week it was rainy and 40 F, today it's hazy, humid, and supposed to get up to 94 F! So I'm going for things that require little to no oven time, and/or are cooling.
So far, the menu plan is:
grape juice, challah
pine-nut hummus
deviled eggs
dilly cucumber salad
spicy cashew noodles
baked sweet potatoes
roasted cauliflower and zucchini
green salad (maybe)
freshly squeezed citrus juice (maybe)
sorbet, ice cream, fruit
The challah is rising (I added less yeast to compensate for the heat and humidity during the rise). I still have to bake them, but that's the last of the oven stuff, since the other baked veggies were done before work this morning. The cucumber salad is already marinating. I still have to make the spicy noodles (cooking the fresh noodles is fairly quick), hard boil the eggs (also, buy mayo), and squeeze citrus fruits, if I'm making a pitcher of juice. Really, it feels like mint lemonade weather, but I don't think I have enough lemons, and minted orange (etc.) juice sounds nasty, like drinking orange juice after brushing teeth.
Even if I don't make a green salad for tonight, I should pick some leaves from the porch to make one tomorrow. Also possible for tomorrow: tomato salad with scallions, chives, and feta and/or spicy turkey knishes (if and, for separate meals, of course!).