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Three Black Krim Plants = Three Tomatoes One was claimed by the squirrels, the second (above) we picked early to save it from said squirrels, and the third is still on the vine. Will the last one survive? It’s a mystery.
After ripening for three days in [...]
…And, beach plum jam I could buy some. Nah, that’s too easy. I think I’ll try to devise a convoluted recipe. This is my current plan: I Wanna Be Beach Plum Jam 1-2 large bunches of tart grapes, halved & seeded
The radishes are finally big enough to eat! We’ve seen cream, pink, red & white, deep red, and red with darker red stripes. But, they all taste the same… spicy. Not just a little bit spicy, oh no, they’re fire breathing, eye watering, mouth full of wasabi HOT. A result of [...]
Mr Stripey doesn’t like the heat. Last year we had over 20 huge tomatoes. This year? We’ve seen about 10 tomatoes on the same number of plants. And, several of those 10 weren’t pretty. So, it would be a crime not to showcase the handful of gorgeous tomatoes we were [...]
Fig + Ginger + Sugar = Yum
This isn’t really a recipe. It’s a bit like recycled food. After two weeks of fig preserve, we wanted something new to accompany our morning toast. So, I took what was left over from my 5 cups of fig preserve, added [...]
Lemon Cucumbers
Baby Breakfast Radish
Peppermint & Chocolate Mint
More Tomatoes
Peppers, Oregano & Stripey Tomatoes Yes, there will be a salad tonight.
Enough Oregano Seeds to turn our backyard into a salad
Brandywine Tomato In other news, my newly planted teeny tiny two foot tall black mission fig tree had it’s first fig! The other two black mission fig trees are growing nicely… but, no figs. The newly planted 4-5 foot kadota fig tree has lost a few leaves, but, the fruit is still [...]
The first ripe figs are almost bursting after this weekend’s heavy rain. Our brown turkey fig tree is littered with green figs that will ripen any day. Today, we had about two overflowing handfuls of ripe figs.
Liquid sugar hinting of honey… yum
And, we [...] Chicken Salad with Cilantro 1 large bunch cilantro, well-washed baby salad greens, well-washed Dressing: After washing cilantro, remove the [...] Kantola (Momordica Dioica, or Balsam Pear) Kantola (or, balsam pear) is a type of bitter gourd known by many names. Momordica dioica, balsam apple, spine gourd, konkani, kakrol, kankro, kantroli, aakakarakaya, phagla, phaagil, ban karela, bhat karola, kartola, teasel gourd and boda kakarakaya are just a few. It’s rich in calcium, phosphorus, [...] |
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