Had dinner with Trevor and Dona last night. I fixed spaghetti and I thought it was pretty good, if I do say so myself. Would have been better if I had had lots of fresh tomatoes and really made the sauce from scratch, rather than just mostly made it from scratch. Makes me think again about what it would mean to have a good garden and grow some of my own food. Old conversation that never really gets old.
Who out there has a garden? Herbs? Veggies? Flowers? - - - cactus? I have some herbs, which I use as often as possible. Mostly basil and mint and bay. And I have cactus and could use nopalitos more often than I do. I could also make prickly pear relish. Watch out - you may get some for Christmas this year :-).
Just want to say I know how lucky I am that I get to have dinner with Trevor once a week and see him regularly. I am very happy about that.
Hasta lumbago!
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We have had a pretty good year with tomatoes, soy beans (etomami)hot peppers. We were dry but watered a lot but have too many trees to get enough light to do much more. We have fall tomatoes started and will start mustard greens soon. We have also had basil, rosemary and lots of mint. Kathryn has made some great pesto with the basil. My recipe for mustard greens. Onions and garlic and peppers and olive oil in a hot black iron skillet. Add torn up mustard greens. Cook until almost crisp. Add balsamic vinegar to finish. Serve--um, um, good.
ReplyDeleteYum! I will try that and I am making pesto this weekend. I have three - well really four - kinds of basil, but I use the Thai basil for cooking mostly. I would make pesto with it too, but there is never enough of it at any one time. I have a little tomato plant that has the yellow pear tomatoes. I have gotten a few off it, but not many. Mostly just pop one in my mouth every few days.
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