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Garden Update: April 2011

  • Posted on May 3, 2011 at 8:00 am

This month’s experiment is:

A tipi for cucumber vines to grow up

my cucumber tipi. Bamboo tomato stakes strategically placed, tied up and wrapped with a scrap of cotton yarn. Hopefully the cotton yarn will be enough to let the vines do their thing. I placed the stakes so I have a window on each side to reach in and grab cukes if I need to.

The sugar snaps are up in the cardboard boxes, but…

as you can see, the cardboard was a good idea but execution needs a bit of work. I’m going to end up either transplanting them or (more likely) building a wooden box around the cardboard to hold it together til the end of the season.

Lettuce box #1 is up and I’ve been thoroughly enjoying picking my own salad – with the exception of the mustard greens. The problem with buying a packet of mesclun is that I wasn’t sure what I was planting – I just shook out half the packet in the box and waited for goodness to grow. While I like mustard greens in a salad, I don’t like THAT MUCH in one sitting. The other problem?

Crushed lettuces. The dog has been in here again.

Evidently the dog has a new bed.

And wrapping things up, we have complete failure.

Seeds planted in eggcrate

Every single “tips for getting kids to garden” includes using eggcrate for seed trays. I’m going to slice the crates up and stick the dirt in pots and hope SOMETHING comes up. The good news is I only planted 12 seeds in each crate (I was tempted to just sprinkle seeds and see what happens). I still have plenty more in the seed packets and am going to get those going as well. The crates are holding pickling cukes, two varieties of tomatoes, and stevia.

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Sesame chicken and noodle deliciousness

  • Posted on June 17, 2010 at 9:00 pm

I have no pics of this dish because well….I AM A WINNAH!!!!! You’ll just have to trust me on this one. And please, do us all a favor and read the whole thing. I had no intention of blogging this until I said “I cooked!!!” and this general badass said she wanted the recipe.

Recipeish.

Whatever you wanna call it. I proclaim it’s deliciousness, and you don’t NEED no stinkin’ pictures of FOOD good LORD people what’s WRONG with you??!!??

It all started with Aiming Low. We all know I like to have some achievable goals, y’all.

1 lb noodles, cooked – I used angel hair because my kids like skinny noodles. Pick whatever floats your boat as long as it’s a pound o noodles. Fettuccine, linguine, you could even use ramen (though my tummeh churns at the thought).

Dress those lovely noodles with

1/2 C soy sauce (I used Bragg’s Liquid Aminos though.)
1/3 to 1/2 C sesame oil
1/3 C sugar
1/4 C sesame seeds – toast ‘em iffin it thrills your soul. I didn’t this time because I used dark sesame oil.

Shake, whisk, and otherwise make a dressing out of those four ingredents. Last night when I made them I was SURE that 1/2 C sesame oil was waaaay too much for angel hair pasta; the noodles were guhREASY. Today when I whipped ‘em out to add in the REST of the goodness, they weren’t quite so bad but I didn’t add any other sesame oil either.

Set the noodles aside to soak up all that tasty tastiness. This time I let it sit overnight – but I had a small bowl before sticking them in the fridge.

It had to be done. I hope you appreciate the sacrifice my thighs made for you.

OH!!!! Two green onions *minimum*. Slice those delicate lovelies from the bottom up to the tough green stems.

Do not do what my child did: I told him the green leaves were tough and oniony. He immediately chomped, and then spent the next 20 minutes spitting green bits into the trash can and shouting BLECH BLECH EEW EEW EEW MOMMIE YOU TWICKED ME!!!!

Because telling a six yr old “don’t eat that” is an invitation to stuff your mouth, apparently.

I diced up two frozen chicken thighs (boneless & skinless) and cooked ‘em through in my trusty cast-iron skillet, then tossed in steamed broccollllli and cauliflower. And I really REALLY wish I’d added shredded carrots and red peppers.

Yes, there are a gracious plenty of leftover noodles.

I planned it that way.

Now I don’t hafta heat up the kitchen for delicious nomz.

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