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squash…

12 Wednesday Jun 2024

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this was the garden when I planted the seeds on May 14…

and here are photos from today…

the black planters are coming along very nicely… the tomatoes at each end have started to flower, the peas and beans are thinking about climbing the trellis, and the cucumbers have popped through the ground…

the vegetables in the gray planter are coming along, although the squash seed has not sprouted yet…

this is rather amazing, considering all the rain we’ve had…

beefsteak…

19 Monday Jun 2023

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I am so pleased with how the garden is coming along, even with this rather changeable weather…

there are teeny little cucumbers starting to grow… at least one butternut squash has started, and there is a lovely beefsteak tomato…

the beautiful strawberry got eaten… and not by a human;-(… not sure if it was a bird or a squirrel, but I’m leaning towards squirrel, lol…

turkey…

14 Saturday Oct 2017

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Monday night after Thanksgiving dinner, I made the turkey soup broth, and popped it into the fridge…

this morning I worked on the soup by adding a bay leaf, shredded carrots, celery, onion and potatoes… used the mandolin and laughed again as I remembered how my beloved and I hadn’t used the first one we had correctly, lol…

after that cooked down I added in barley, peas and corn and left it simmering on the stove for a few hours…

final step was to make my mom’s dumpling recipe and add it to a portion of the soup…

I tend to remove about half of the soup into containers before adding the dumplings to what’s left…

let it simmer for about half an hour and voila…

vegetable turkey soup with dumplings… delicious dinner…

tomorrow I’ll give some to the kids…

vegetables…

25 Monday Apr 2016

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yesterday I bought a Veggetti… it spiral cuts veggies so they come out like pasta…

  

my daughter had recommended it as a good piece of equipment for this purpose… there are many price points out there to choose from and this one is reasonable and effective…

tonight I made some cucumber spirals with it and put in a bit of vinegar with them as a side dish for my supper… I continue to be sure there are lots of vegetables at every meal which I think has helped with the weight loss…

  

tried to make some spiral bits with a small carrot, but that did not work at all, lol… apparently, need to use large carrots, not little ones…

the great news is that I didn’t cut or slice any part of my body…

looking forward to trying some different vegetables and seeing how the machine works with them… 

then I will have to figure out how to cook them as well…