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magidplants! springly thoughts!
I got the brochure of seedlings I can order through Re-Vision (urban farm), and I wish I had far more room than a small porch. I can resist the flowers (mostly; marigolds and nasturtiums are edible, after all), and I'm fairly sure which herbs to get (basil genovese, chives, oregano, and thyme; I'm overwintering rosemary and two kinds of lavender). But the vegetables.... oh, the choices! I know I'll end up getting some sungold cherry tomatoes (especially after last year's fiasco), but wouldn't it be lovely to have other things as well? Especially when they've got such intriguing names: gypsy broccoli, calliope eggplant, galactic lettuce (they have envy lettuce, too, but who'd choose envy over galactic? :-). And the tomatoes: black krim, cherokee purple, mortgage lifter (!), peacevine, cosmonaut volkov. it's music, not just fruit. Realistically, I won't get eggplant, or cauliflower, or dinosaur kale; there just isn't enough room for six of them, and growing just one or two plants leaves me hanging too much of the summer. I can dream, though...
another great idea from Texas
Concerned that kids are overweight, they're proposing to put kids' BMI on report cards. One of these things is not like the others: A-, B+, A, 24.8. If the concern is healthy kids, how about having more frequent and more enjoyable gym classes? Or sponsoring afterschool programs with lots of activities? Or having family outings to walk or bike together? Help kids form more healthy habits with their families.
soup
Cooking for Shabbat last week included making a spicy chicken-vegetable soup, partly since it was cold out, and partly in honor of my cold. I browned onions, garlic, and chicken pieces (the less-interesting parts of chickens in eighths), then added the end of a bottle of red wine. As that started simmering, I added diced potatoes and sweet potatoes, and grated a biggish knob of ginger in. Seasonings included cayenne, black pepper, cardamom, hot sauce, oregano, and thyme. Just before Shabbat, I put in a bag of spinach to wilt. Yummy. And even yummier on subsequent days, as soups are wont to be. I finished it off last night, and sadly realizing that there won't be time to make soup until next week. It's unfortunate, with the cold snap we're having.
a couple of links
So I won't lose them.
Amazing individual hats. I don't know that I'd actually get one, but wow. I want to have enough attitude to be able to wear one.
For the other end of the body, much sockage. For a little splurge someday, perhaps.
I got the brochure of seedlings I can order through Re-Vision (urban farm), and I wish I had far more room than a small porch. I can resist the flowers (mostly; marigolds and nasturtiums are edible, after all), and I'm fairly sure which herbs to get (basil genovese, chives, oregano, and thyme; I'm overwintering rosemary and two kinds of lavender). But the vegetables.... oh, the choices! I know I'll end up getting some sungold cherry tomatoes (especially after last year's fiasco), but wouldn't it be lovely to have other things as well? Especially when they've got such intriguing names: gypsy broccoli, calliope eggplant, galactic lettuce (they have envy lettuce, too, but who'd choose envy over galactic? :-). And the tomatoes: black krim, cherokee purple, mortgage lifter (!), peacevine, cosmonaut volkov. it's music, not just fruit. Realistically, I won't get eggplant, or cauliflower, or dinosaur kale; there just isn't enough room for six of them, and growing just one or two plants leaves me hanging too much of the summer. I can dream, though...
another great idea from Texas
Concerned that kids are overweight, they're proposing to put kids' BMI on report cards. One of these things is not like the others: A-, B+, A, 24.8. If the concern is healthy kids, how about having more frequent and more enjoyable gym classes? Or sponsoring afterschool programs with lots of activities? Or having family outings to walk or bike together? Help kids form more healthy habits with their families.
soup
Cooking for Shabbat last week included making a spicy chicken-vegetable soup, partly since it was cold out, and partly in honor of my cold. I browned onions, garlic, and chicken pieces (the less-interesting parts of chickens in eighths), then added the end of a bottle of red wine. As that started simmering, I added diced potatoes and sweet potatoes, and grated a biggish knob of ginger in. Seasonings included cayenne, black pepper, cardamom, hot sauce, oregano, and thyme. Just before Shabbat, I put in a bag of spinach to wilt. Yummy. And even yummier on subsequent days, as soups are wont to be. I finished it off last night, and sadly realizing that there won't be time to make soup until next week. It's unfortunate, with the cold snap we're having.
a couple of links
So I won't lose them.
Amazing individual hats. I don't know that I'd actually get one, but wow. I want to have enough attitude to be able to wear one.
For the other end of the body, much sockage. For a little splurge someday, perhaps.
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Date: 2005-01-19 10:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-19 10:56 am (UTC)Congrats on another summer of vegetable posts! I look forward to seeing what you get.
My co-conspirator in vegetables is thinking of not re-upping this year, in favor of Boston Organics. It has the advantages of home delivery and more choice (She was over-kale'd this year.), and for the small box the price is about the same. Plus neither of us were impressed with the lack of interesting varieties: we'd get basic lettuce, no arugula or mesclun. Tomatoes came in cherry or regular, but no funky heirlooms. Etc. Which is weird, since the seedling order form has such glorious stuff. OTOH, the farm is all local produce (Boston Organics tries to have local, but I don't know how much they manage in the summer), and there's the social good, being run by a halfway house....
*ponder*