It’s been exceptionally hot and dry here this summer. I’ve been able to irrigate most all the gardens except for the corn, sweet potatoes and assorted winter squash and melons, but even with regular irrigation, it “ain’t like Mother Nature” did it. Yesterday, last night, and this morning we were fortunate enough to have showers [...]
Archive of entries posted on July 2010
Gazpacho time!
Even though it’s been sweltering here for the last several weeks, it just doesn’t seem like summer until the first big batch of gazpacho is chilling in the fridge. Gazpacho, or cold soup, is a very loose recipe; you can add to or alter the ingredients pretty much as you like. I wouldn’t advise adding [...]
Something is pooping on the porch……
The farmhouse has big wide wrap-around porches which are great for sleeping dogs, porch swings, and the occasional break from gardening. To hide the empty space between the ground and the bottom of the porch, last year I planted native coral honeysuckle and am training it to climb up a wire fence that has been nailed [...]
Good squash recipe
This time of year squash is really “doin’ its thang”, so another yummy squash recipe should be welcome. The original recipe calls for zucchini, but I can’t tell much difference in the summer squashes, so I call it “Squash Fritters”. This is also a good recipe to use up some of those squash that were [...]
Tabouli or not Tabouli, that is the question
I’ll admit when I was looking for recipes for tabouli I didn’t even know how to spell it. I started with “taboulah”, then “tabouleh”, “taboula”, and I’ve seen tabboulah and tabbouleh, and FINALLY tabouli. It’s spelled every which way on the net though, so it’s not just my spelling. I choose the shortest, tabouli. My [...]
Frantic Mama
This morning on the way to the garden I heard an unusual amount of tiny chirping noises that seemed like they were coming from all around. I looked down and almost stepped on this: It startled me because a couple of weeks ago Oliver the cat found a copperhead in that same area, and yesterday [...]
The latest in equine seasonal fashion
Whit and Buckshot (the 2 horses on the farm) are sporting a “shimmer weave” fly mask…….these masks are supposed to blend in and reflect the horse’s natural color instead of looking like a Halloween mask. I didn’t choose them for that reason, I chose them because they were $1.00 cheaper. Whitt posed for a Hollywood [...]
How to cook a flying saucer
Well, they look like flying saucers anyway. Once summer squash starts coming in boy howdy, you better keep your windows rolled up when you park your car around here. Not that it might get stolen or anything like that, but somebody might throw some squash in there (it’s a local joke) (well, maybe not too [...]