RL daily life stuff
Mar. 28th, 2011 10:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76I begin to hate applique and despise bias binding. Which I suppose may mean I'm getting better at it? Good if so, because I still have a lot to go.
Roasted a chicken for dinner last night. Wonderful Husband asked for not roast veg to accompany it. Betrayal! We had tater tots and snow peas from the garden instead. I also sliced some radishes and we had them with butter and salt as a side, which I'd read about somewhere or other. Unfortunately, it was somewhat disappointing. Wonderful Husband commented that he was pretty much getting crunchy salted butter out of it. Alas. I need to figure out things to do with radishes.
More windows are clean, though we still need to remove and clean the accompanying screens. The laundry and dishes got done, house got swept, and while dinner was cooking I made up a quart jar of Moroccan preserved lemons from the citrus that had been loitering on the counter. Same basic recipe as the Greek version I'd previously made (quartered lemons + salt), just with the addition of some spices (peppercorns, cloves, bay leaves, cinammon stick) to the jar. I'll be interested to see in a month or so if they actively taste different from the others. Which, BTW, are... interesting on vanilla ice cream.
I did just a touch of puttering about in the garden: put some potted plants into a bucket of rainwater for them to get a drink, draped the long squash vines over the dog run chain link fence, staked two volunteer tomatoes since they're starting to put on growth, and transplanted two other volunteers to better locations. In the process I learned that snails dig holes and lay round white eggs in 'em, as one was doing so right where I was putting a tomato plant! I keep looking out the kitchen window at the garden and sighing; it looks so bare, so ugly, so incomplete. Still, we're getting radishes and peas at the moment, I have borage and nettles if I want wilted greens, the overwintered tomato plants are bursting with green 'maters, and the strawberries are flowering and fruiting. I have carrots, parsnips, and garlic going for harvest later, a bunch of seedlings for various crops, and a herb bed that'll be complete in about two weeks when the city does their annual compost giveaway. The lemon tree remains heavy with fruit and the Valencia orange tree is blossoming, promising summer citrus. So I think I can live with the bare patches.
Roasted a chicken for dinner last night. Wonderful Husband asked for not roast veg to accompany it. Betrayal! We had tater tots and snow peas from the garden instead. I also sliced some radishes and we had them with butter and salt as a side, which I'd read about somewhere or other. Unfortunately, it was somewhat disappointing. Wonderful Husband commented that he was pretty much getting crunchy salted butter out of it. Alas. I need to figure out things to do with radishes.
More windows are clean, though we still need to remove and clean the accompanying screens. The laundry and dishes got done, house got swept, and while dinner was cooking I made up a quart jar of Moroccan preserved lemons from the citrus that had been loitering on the counter. Same basic recipe as the Greek version I'd previously made (quartered lemons + salt), just with the addition of some spices (peppercorns, cloves, bay leaves, cinammon stick) to the jar. I'll be interested to see in a month or so if they actively taste different from the others. Which, BTW, are... interesting on vanilla ice cream.
I did just a touch of puttering about in the garden: put some potted plants into a bucket of rainwater for them to get a drink, draped the long squash vines over the dog run chain link fence, staked two volunteer tomatoes since they're starting to put on growth, and transplanted two other volunteers to better locations. In the process I learned that snails dig holes and lay round white eggs in 'em, as one was doing so right where I was putting a tomato plant! I keep looking out the kitchen window at the garden and sighing; it looks so bare, so ugly, so incomplete. Still, we're getting radishes and peas at the moment, I have borage and nettles if I want wilted greens, the overwintered tomato plants are bursting with green 'maters, and the strawberries are flowering and fruiting. I have carrots, parsnips, and garlic going for harvest later, a bunch of seedlings for various crops, and a herb bed that'll be complete in about two weeks when the city does their annual compost giveaway. The lemon tree remains heavy with fruit and the Valencia orange tree is blossoming, promising summer citrus. So I think I can live with the bare patches.
