14 Aug 11 Sunday Breakfast
A change is as good as a rest, it has been often said.
So this morning, instead of the regular bacon and sausage fry-up, we decided to have something different.
Kippers are simply smoked herring, but they make a tasty alternative, particularly when you don’t have them very often.
To go with the kippers, we pan-fried some tomatoes, and some mushrooms.
We also thought we’d be healthier with the eggs this weekend, so instead of frying them, we got a pan of water boiling, dropped in the eggs, and poached them.
Along with a pot of freshly ground, brewed coffee, it was a most enjoyable breakfast.
Now if only, kippers didn’t have so many darn bones!
Here’s hoping y’all have a great weekend.
Tags: bacon, bones, breakfast, coffee, eggs, fry, herring, kippers, mushrooms, pan fried, pot, sausage, Sunday, sunday breakfast, tomatoes
01 Jan 11 The Garden Project
I want to get this Garden Project underway now, so the ground is as ready as can be for spring planting. I realize I am not going to get everything done in one go, so I’m going to concentrate on getting one area ready, and then move onto another one. I can get some seed planted for the spring, and then work on getting another area ready for an autumn harvest.
Crop rotation is important of course, but I won’t need to concern myself with that for the first year.
I have a fork and spade, and a roller, and I shall need a sieve and a rake.
Soon I shall look at exactly what I am going to plan on planting. When I had an allotment in years past, I tended to concentrate on growing either crops that were consistently expensive to buy locally, such as asparagus; crops that were generally readily unavailable such as celeriac and different varieties of common crops, such as tomatoes, potatoes, and squashes.
Commercial growers these days usually grow for yield, whereas growing yourself means you can grow for flavor, and you can pick stuff at the optimum time for that, and of course, it’s fresher than even it is at the farmers market.
I’m certainly looking forward to what I can achieve during the 2011 growing season.
Watch this blog!
Tags: allotment, asparagus, autumn harvest, commercial growers, crop rotation, crops, farmers market, optimum time, potatoes, rake, tomatoes
26 May 08 Grill
This afternoon, being Memorial Day, we got together with the neighbors, and had a little grill out. We cooked some steaks, and some tomatoes, and peppers and hot dogs, and they supplied a nice pea and beet salad and some more steaks.
We had a pleasant evening, until the sun came down and the bugs came out, when we called it quits.
Tags: beet salad, hot dogs, memorial day, neighbors, steaks, sun, tomatoes
