Dinner was a great success.
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Ana loved the watermelon with feta and mint. I liked it too. Evangeline, alas, didn't get to have any because she barely touched her dinner. (In fairness, I would've put less tabouleh on her plate until she asked for it, and instead put a little of the baba ganoush and the hummus instead, thus giving her more choices. But the time to bring that up was not after she'd already decided she didn't want any of it.)
I need to find the bowl covers, they seem to have gone AWOL. Had to run out and buy saran wrap instead. I hate saran wrap, especially when it refuses to saran properly and instead just sits there or sticks to itself and my hands.
Made the tabouleh with the last of the purslane (that thing I couldn't identify last week). Not sure if that's traditional, but I'm sure the spirit of "using up the last of a food rather than wasting it" is very traditional.
I need to find the bowl covers, they seem to have gone AWOL. Had to run out and buy saran wrap instead. I hate saran wrap, especially when it refuses to saran properly and instead just sits there or sticks to itself and my hands.
Made the tabouleh with the last of the purslane (that thing I couldn't identify last week). Not sure if that's traditional, but I'm sure the spirit of "using up the last of a food rather than wasting it" is very traditional.
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Date: 2008-07-03 06:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-04 06:09 am (UTC)In the kitchen, the quiet kitchen, the lid thief's up tonight.
Oh-ooooh, ooh, ooh, wimoweh.
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Date: 2008-07-03 01:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-04 04:45 am (UTC)Purslane grows all over our place, so I decided to plant some Improved Garden Purslane (said to stand up, not lie in the dirt, thus enabling a cleaner harvest).
Not a single one came up. WILD purslane, however, is popping up in the strawberry beds, in the beet row, in the tomato patch, etc....everywhere ELSE, matter of fact.
I like purslane, both raw in salad and cooked lightly (stirfried in butter with a little onion is nice).
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Date: 2008-07-04 06:04 am (UTC)I could've told you that would happen. Our purslane is mint. We have peppermint in the front above, and spearmint in the front beneath, and something in the back that I think is applemint or maybe catnip, because it's not either of the other mints. I don't even know where it came from, because we didn't have any mint back there last time I checked, and I certainly haven't been silly enough to put any in the ground in the past, six or seven years or so.
Almost bought some tarragon a few weeks ago at the farmer's market. Bought parsley, bought cilantro, because you don't need those things often, but when you do there's no substitute, and I loathe getting a whole bunch of something when I only need a teeny tiny bit, it's so wasteful, right? Tarragon is similar, and I almost bought it, but the only thing I know about tarragon is that it spreads. Learned my lesson with mint, thanks very much.
Hey, listen, I went out to weed our tomato bed yesterday, started to pull a big ol' weed up, stopped - know what it was?
A single okra stalk.
No way my mother planted one okra, especially not in that location. It managed to survive the winter (well, we didn't have one this year, so that makes sense) and seed itself.
We've also got some sunflowers coming up. Ye gods.
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Date: 2008-07-03 06:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-04 06:09 am (UTC)In the kitchen, the quiet kitchen, the lid thief's up tonight.
Oh-ooooh, ooh, ooh, wimoweh.
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Date: 2008-07-03 01:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-04 04:45 am (UTC)Purslane grows all over our place, so I decided to plant some Improved Garden Purslane (said to stand up, not lie in the dirt, thus enabling a cleaner harvest).
Not a single one came up. WILD purslane, however, is popping up in the strawberry beds, in the beet row, in the tomato patch, etc....everywhere ELSE, matter of fact.
I like purslane, both raw in salad and cooked lightly (stirfried in butter with a little onion is nice).
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Date: 2008-07-04 06:04 am (UTC)I could've told you that would happen. Our purslane is mint. We have peppermint in the front above, and spearmint in the front beneath, and something in the back that I think is applemint or maybe catnip, because it's not either of the other mints. I don't even know where it came from, because we didn't have any mint back there last time I checked, and I certainly haven't been silly enough to put any in the ground in the past, six or seven years or so.
Almost bought some tarragon a few weeks ago at the farmer's market. Bought parsley, bought cilantro, because you don't need those things often, but when you do there's no substitute, and I loathe getting a whole bunch of something when I only need a teeny tiny bit, it's so wasteful, right? Tarragon is similar, and I almost bought it, but the only thing I know about tarragon is that it spreads. Learned my lesson with mint, thanks very much.
Hey, listen, I went out to weed our tomato bed yesterday, started to pull a big ol' weed up, stopped - know what it was?
A single okra stalk.
No way my mother planted one okra, especially not in that location. It managed to survive the winter (well, we didn't have one this year, so that makes sense) and seed itself.
We've also got some sunflowers coming up. Ye gods.