How is it nearly a month (AGAIN) since the last post? What is up with me?
Well... this blog never did have any obligations attached to it (in my mind) so I guess nothing! Nothing is up with me. I do have a pile of stuff in my head and on my hard drive that I eventually plan/want to write about. But.
So what is up? Life for one.
And, amid the busyness of our day to day life, life has also been this:
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| We took a long walk in a park and saw a lot of bridal parties... including this one (well- ok, this is just the bride and groom and photog) on the way home. |
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| Someone in this building has twins. The double stroller is always parked under the stairwell in the entrance of the building. In fact, looks like 2 strollers there. I've been seeing this all summer. |
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| And ok- it's not summer anymore. This granny was out in her garden working the other day. This is definitely a huge part of life right now as people clear out the last of their gardens. This one was in a large field near our apartment building. Several dozen families (I'm guessing) have plots in it and on a good sunny day the place is crawling with people. |
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| Anyone know what this plant is? There's a large field of it nearby... |
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ahhh- it's sideways... ooops
Well anyhow- anyone know what it is???? I thought a weed; K says Can't be- it looks too planted. |
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| Sorry California. You want poppies? We got 'em. And they're purty, too. And they're still (again?) blooming. :) They are happening! |
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| And this. Canola. Rape Seed. Can you double-crop this stuff? Because it sure seems late in the year for it to be blooming. And will it actually produce a harvest? What say the farmers? |
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| And these Very Cheery Beauties! |
And, of course, Life has been food. I love food. ;)
Someone fixed
fixed this (German eggs in mustard sauce) for our lunch a month ago in Germany. There is no good pic online that actually resembles what we had (and what I tried to recreate last week). But here's a verbal depiction:
-White sauce (about a TBS of flour's worth) with about a TBS regular yellow mustard
-Served over hard-boiled halved eggs and boiled potatoes.
I'm not a huge fan of German food but this qualifies as comfort food, in my opinion. It is creamy yellow (what's not comforting about that?) and mild and delicious. You can play around with the amount of mustard. The veggie broth in the sauce adds a nice flavor. I did NOT use boullion cubes- they're full of MSG you know!
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another day's lunch- savory millet- this needs some work yet. I didn't make it into patties but served it in place of rice with meat. Flavor was good but definitely need to start with less liquid and add if you need more. Wished it were drier. But going to try it again and see how it goes.
i didn't know bouillon cubes had a lot of MSG in them...even the organic ones? :(
ReplyDeletelovely photos of nature! i especially love the poppies :)
good luck with your recipes!
You have to check the labels. Some cubes don't but most do.
Deletehmmm...waiting to see if you get any answers to your farming questions. we had mr. dan at our place with a fine group of other people and he was talking to us about the land you love. :) made you feel a little closer to us, somehow. he's keeping us busy three nights a week. looking forward to it!
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ReplyDeleteGood to hear again!! Really like hard boiled eggs, so am anxious to try this. Sounds like a good breakfast thing over a piece of good toast, for a change of pace!!
Looks like a 'pretty wedding'.
My wild guess on the pict. with the white, looks like some kind of cotton plant, though can't really pick out the definite lines of the white that well. Does cotton grow there?? There are several varieties of it according to a cotton musuem we went thru in Mississippi.
Oleva
can i comment here? can't on a few of them still..anyway, i'm going to look up that millet recipe! ..that lady looked like she is def. in a different country!! love the outfit!
ReplyDeleteWe used to eat something like those eggs in mustard sauce, only chopped the eggs in the sauce and had it over toast.
ReplyDeleteThe mystery plant turned out to be Buckwheat! It is often planted as a cover crop and then plowed under...but that should have been done before it bloomed, according to my informant! ;)
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