What’d You Do Last Weekend?
With a little extra pastry cream and a simple crepe batter, try your hand at a gateau de crepes, also known as mille crepes.
Garden Survey: June 2007 (Part 1)
It was a busy weekend of cleaning up the garden. This is what it looked like at the beginning of the weekend - we had lettuce growing like crazy, mizuna, spinach and chard bolting, and arugula on its last legs. Check out our lazy dog on the lawn!
We spent the day harvesting joi choi, spinach, arugula, and fava beans. The photo on the right is of the bed with peas and what had been joi choi - you can still see the remnants of chard and chervil on the right bed.
We got some really nice fava beans too - they had been overwintering in the spot we usually put zucchini and cukes. We got about 4 - 5 cups after shelling.
After all of that work, we planted basil, squash, cucumbers, carrots, bush beans (black & whites) in the spots where everything else had been. We also put up some netting to protect the strawberries from critters (Grendel being one of them) and to keep cats out of the boxes.
The next day, all the strawberries were still there and we pulled our first peas from the vines. This variety of peas bloomed really late (and are really short), but they weren't stringy at all.
This is what we ate after all of that hard work - a nice, fat pork chop we'd picked up at the U-District Farmer's Market on Saturday, grilled and slathered with homemade green tomato chutney. We sauteed the spinach and chard, and also made a gratin out of celeriac and some baby potatoes. Yum!
