...we got up early and did some garden/yardwork...it's still pretty chilly here...but we've passed our last frost date...so we planted the peas we'd started inside a few weeks ago...this is the section where I pulled up all of the tendergreens...
...I planted the Hubbard squash...and put jars over them to protect them a little bit...
...and some okra plants that had sprouted...
...then I went back and added some strings for the peas to climb on...
...and walking past the sidewalk lined with lillies I thought I should probably pull away all of the dead leaves...
...so I sat down on the sidewalk and did that...
...then we came in for breakfast...a quick tofu scramble...
...topping and overfilling a homemade english muffin...
...and there was one english muffin left so I toasted it and we each ate half of it with some jam...
...then we did the weekly shopping...
...nothing of note...except that Stuff Mart had up their 'we baked too much' sign...and the loaf of italian bread was only 42¢...
...I put the cilantro into a cup of water to let it revive a bit...and it's so warm that we've got the kitchen window open for a while... and you can smell the tea olive that's blooming right under the window...if you've never smelled tea olive in bloom you've missed a real treat...it's heavenly...
...and I picked up another of the natural sodas to try...this one is the grape Ollipop...$1.99...still pretty expensive for a pop...but we were listening to NPR the other day and they were talking about this up and coming market and even Coke and Pepsi are planning on marketing these natural pre-biotic sodas...
...then back to the garden for a little bit of weeding...
...and I picked a basket full of lettuce...
...and a few radishes...
...we're still getting a lot of salads from our little winter garden...I'll be leaving the lettuce until it starts to bolt...
...later in the afternoon I added some shade for the baby plants because then I thought that the sun was too strong for them and they were looking a little bit wilty...
...Sunday morning...the third stalk of flowers on our Christmas Amarylis is blooming now...
...and then it was time for some food prep for the week...this is the last bag of beans that we'd bought during the pandemic...so they're over two years old...
...but still seem to be fine...we're going to just cook them slowly in a pot on the induction cooker because I want the instant pot for the greens...
...and to go with the beans...I'm going to harvest the mustard greens from the winter garden...
...I pulled up all of the mustard greens...
...like with the tendergreens...I'm pulling up the whole plant and then snipping off the roots...
...which I'm leaving in the plot to be tilled under later...
...it'll put some nutrients back in the soil...
...and I got a huge amount of greens...and a few weeds that I won't be tilling back into the soil...haha...
...the mountain of greens...there were two varities...Old Fashioned and 'Giant'...guess which ones are larger...right the old fashioned ones...
...into the sink for a few baths...
...then I put on a pot of rice in the rice cooker...and I poured the rice rinsing water into a watering pitcher to pour on the plants outside...not sure where I saw that this was a good fertilizer...but again...free nutrients...
...then I started cramming all those greens into the instant pot...we know that they cook down tremendously so I'm not worried about overfilling it...
...then I scooped the rinse water out of the sink and used that to water some plants as well...
...I started cooking the greens on the back porch...just to keep the smell out of the house...mustard greens are kinda stinky when they're cooking...
...I started on sauté mode until they'd shrunk a bit...
...and then I put the lid on and used the steam cycle...
...and see...that mountain of greens cooked down to just half a pot...
...and into my biggest container with a lid...as we'll be having beans and greens and cornbread for dinner later this week...
~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!
My goodness, a lot going on in that post!! Love the fresh greens. Looks like you little garden strip is going to be productive! Love, K
ReplyDeleteAll those fresh greens!!!!! My garden is covered with 1 meter of snow! I am envious! ;-)
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