A refreshing soup for a hot day! And it’s really easy. (And it’s a really fast way to use up some of the million cucumbers you’ve got building up from your garden and your CSA box … ) I didn’t totally make it up — there are lots of recipes like this out there with […]
Operation: Ladybug
For some reason, aphids love yard-long beans. No, I don’t know why. All I know is that my yard-long beans are covered with ’em. Yuk. A massive aphid-and-ant invasion. Guess the compost pile was no longer enough for the ants …. If that weren’t enough, the quantity of honeydew the aphids are secreting is attracting […]
Beet Rösti
I promised the beet rösti recipe when I got around to making it. Well, I got around to making it. (: What is rösti, you wonder? It’s a Swiss version of what we’d consider hash browns, more or less. My chef-instructor taught us to make it in culinary school. Thank you, Chef Kurt! ‘Cause you […]
CSA Aug. 5
Hey, so I’m actually making a CSA post on the day I got the box. Woo! Haven’t made any serious plans about what to do with it yet, but I’m likely going to try to sweet-talk Kristina out of most of the tomatoes. Why? Because I’ve already got about 3 pounds of tomatoes from my […]
Back from Utah!
We had a fabulous time in gorgeous scenic Utah, and I want to blog about that later. But I’ve been crazy-busy managing the yard since we got back, and putting up some pickles (four POUNDS of lemon cucumbers, I ask you … ), and haven’t had time to blog yet. So this is just a […]
Sweet Peachy Business
Along about yesterday, my good buddy Kristina came over with a big pile of white peaches from her yard. Kristina lives in Fallbrook, and she and her family have this fabulous yard full of citrus trees, avocados, and stone fruit. Every once in a while, she asks me if I want some. Do I ever?! […]
Saving the Green Tomato
I mentioned that my garden exploded. What I didn’t mention was the ugly batch of blossom-end rot that came along with it. /: It seems that especially the hybrid tomatoes are bearing so heavily that they can’t get enough calcium, even with supplementing and with plenty of water. My nursery guy suggested that I thin […]
So I went away, and my garden exploded.
For reals. (: This is what happens when you take a three-and-a-half-day vacation. So with all that growth, there was lots of picking that needed doing. And lots of pruning. We’ll get to that next post …
Brief Hiatus
Hi all! Just want to let you know that Auntie Pasto will be on a week-and-a-half hiatus, due to ComicCon and other life stuff that involves the dreaded (ha) “no internet access”. Should return the first week in August. Thanks for your patience!
Today’s Harvest
I feel so proud to be able to post this, finally. (: This is what I harvested today! Check it out! Four fairytale eggplants, aren’t they cute? One white eggplant, six black pearl cherry tomatoes, three zucchini, a couple of pattypan squash, a “sweet pepper Mohawk!”*, a lemon cucumber (actually two, but I found the […]