...the colors alone make all the gardening effort worthwhile.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
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About me
- Kate
- Southeastern Pennsylvania, United States
- I live on a 2/3 acre homestead in a residential neighborhood. A major goal is to demonstrate how much food a non-expert can produce in my particular climate and hardiness zone, with the soils native to my immediate area. We have gardens of annual and perennial plants, keep laying hens and honey bees, and regularly bite off more than we can chew. Another major goal is to pay off our mortgage as fast as possible. Here I blog about frugality, self-reliance, gardening, cooking and baking, food preservation, practical skills, half-baked experiments, and preparing to thrive in a lower-energy future.
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9 comments:
Looks like a lovely meal of spicy eggplant and tomatoes....
Ah so very pretty
Lovely colours coming out of your garden at the moment.
BEAUTIFUL bounty!.. btw.. what type of tomatoes are those... they are absolutely gorgeous.
They are beautiful!
I'm so jealous that you've got eggplant. Mine are still tiny. I watch them everyday.
The colors of nature are beautiful. Thanks for the reminder.
-Staci
THM, indeed, it was.
gardengrl, they're Speckled Romans. I gushed about them in the comments on the previous post if you want details.
Those tomatoes are gorgeous. I'm still looking for my 'perfect' cooking tomato, and I've just found an online source for these seeds in the UK, so next year...
Also, I found this recipe, via Darina Allen (see her Guardian article here http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/24/how-to-make-yeast-bread) and thought you might be interested. I haven't made it yet. It's called 'Brotherly Love' (no idea why) and apparently is a traditional Suffolk bread. I know you would anyway, but she says only make it with good lard from a well-reared pig....
450g (1lb) white bread dough
75g (3oz) soft pork lard
75g (3oz) sugar
Preheat oven 425 F/220 C/GM 7.
Roll dough into 16 x 10" rectangle.
Spread or dab lard over it and sprinkle with most of the sugar. Roll up and leave to rise for 30-40 minutes.
Brush with water and sprinkle with remaining sugar. bake 10 minutes, then reduce heat 400 F/200 C/GM 6.
Bake for further20 mins, or until cooked. Serve fresh and still warm, buttered.
A bit like Lardy cake without the fruit, I suppose. I'm also going to make digestive biscuits this week (English Graham crackers, I think) with lard- I'll give you that recipe if they work. :-)
Beautiful harvest!
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