Friday, September 23, 2011

Some (Mostly) Useless Completely Vanilla Facts

~Two trash bags full of spinach will reduce to approximately seven pints after blanching.
Fuckin hell!

~Green tomatoes take two weeks to ripen off the vine.
The boxes are taking over.

~I need a recipe for fried green tomatoes.
Any givers?

~Three rather large zucchini will make four loaves of zucchini bread after processing for freezing.
I will be happy in January, I will be happy in January, I will be happy in January.

~Lavender vanilla Febreeze sprayed in excess will make your food taste funny.
Yuck.

~Baby lettuce must be watered once a day.
Why did He plant so many fucking rows of it?!

~This garden is kicking my ass.
It's winning. I wanna tap out!

~I gave my mother in law my gas money for tomorrow so she would go away.
Anyone wanna kill me now? Please?

~I don't like vegetables any more dammit!
When I close my eyes I see spinach.

~My kids are being monsters.
Free to good home?

~I miss my Husband.
It's been a long month.

7 comments:

  1. And who said raising it yourself is better!!?? My garden begins with K and ends with R.


    Hugs!

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  2. Vicarious gardening. Lust. Miss my garden so much! They don't even let us have plants on the balcony here. Love that you harvested SO MUCH spinach.

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  3. I have a recipe for fried green tomatoes. Email me if you want it. it's pretty simple. *hugs*

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  4. Mindset, I have spent a lot of time eating out of the garden that begins with K and ends with r lol. Thought I would try something different this year. Inspiration is overrated lol.

    Conina, I love that you made this comment--I needed to hear it lol. When I was a kid we lived out of the garden and ate off it all winter too because my mom did lots of canning and drying. I kind of miss hoarding food. Once the processing is over I'll feel less whiny about it lol.

    agog, an email will be coming!

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  5. You're right, you will be so happy to have zucchini bread in January. There's nothing like a toasted slice with butter first thing in the morning with a cup of coffee!

    We did garden cleanup today as well. I guess it's getting to be that time of year. Let's hope some of these last few tomatoes actually turn red!

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  6. Jake,
    I have eight rows of green tomatoes. I intend to preserve most of them if it kills me lol. We have found that picking them as soon as they get a hint of color and storing them in paper bags or boxes will give them a chance to ripen nicely.

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  7. Thanks for the tip, Lil. We'll give it a try. Our tomatoes did a good job for us this year, but I don't know that we have eight rows! Nicely done!

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Play nice.