My series of periods is being reduced to a single period!

Probably some crusty French bread..come on over!

My aunt who is no longer with us taught all of us how to prepare split pea, ham and barley soup. Nothing tastes better! She used barley in all her soups for nutrition.

All it needs now is maybe homemade cornbread made with butter milk??????? Hot crusty bread doesn't sound bad either.

I'm afraid that recipe's going to have to wait for another day - I looked in my veggie crisper and realized I had a lot of mushrooms, peppers, celery and carrots, so pasta fagioli is simmering in the crockpot instead ;o)

But the split pea/barley/ham soup will be on the menu sometime during the next week!

I wish you were serving in my home this evening!

Oh, Terry! I've been out job hunting all day long thinking
about that soup and bread! Funny thing. I love split pea soup
but can't stomach canned or frozen peas.

No soup, huh? Sigh. Guess it's spaghetti and garlic bread then.
But YOU do the dishes. ;-)

Wuvie, you are a lovie.

LouC

Wuvie, wish I could send you some pasta fagioli - there's plenty left over! (It's a soup - it's an Italian "chili" of sorts ;o)

Aw, LouC, you're a juicy! LOL

Terry, that is actually something I don't believe I've ever eaten,
unless it is a dish one can get at Olive Garden. Sounds very good!

Olive Garden has Pasta Fagioli on their soup menu. There is a recipe on line somewhere for OG's PF. I made it and it was incredible. My daughter made it and it was even better. Nowadays, she makes it and brings me some! HAHAHAHA

It has lots of ingredients, but overall, is really easy. As with most Italian dishes, it's even better after the first day.

UniQueTreasures is exactly right - I first tasted it at Olive Garden, and went in search of a recipe. I ad-libbed a little yesterday since my crisper was overflowing with veggies (something about fall compels me to buy more than I should ;o), and I wound up making way too much for the three of us. I'm looking forward to a hot bowl of it for lunch today....and maybe again for dinner.....and then there's tomorrow's lunch *chuckle*

Oh man, I love soup and homemade bread! I could live on it. It's cooling down here but still too warm for making stock and soup. The humidity is killing me.

Maggie

In the winter months I always keep the freezer full of all kinds of soups for individual servings. There is simply nothing better on a cold winter night. Every week I try to make a new soup and add to the freezer giving me great choices on any given night.

Maybe as the winter progresses, we can find a place to share great soup recipes. I have made this into a yearly winter thing and it also creates much more time to work with my plants at night.

Check out the recipe forum. Some great soups in there now. Terry, Please add your pasta fagioli now that you have made us all hungry! ;-0

Ditto, please.
;)

We have a recipe forum??? i take your word for it.

we do Gail---it is a wonderful place.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/f/recipes/all/

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/f/recipes/all/ 2 threads with soup recipes!

How neat! Thanks

my waistline has suffered a bit since I found it---

The very first recipe of kraut and ham makes my mouth water.........can't wait to try these recipes.............reminds of my great grandmother Granma Blaschke!

Chowders too, please. I would love a great (easy) corn chowder!

Aha, pupil, now I know where you are also lurking. me, too

gessie - A Mrs Blaschke was my music teacher in grades 4 through 6, in Nebraska. Is this a fairly common name or is there a possibility of relationship?

It is not a common name. My great grandmother's family came from Austria with the name but I think it may be German?????? We still stay in touch with relatives in Austria from her side of the family. I have never known anyone else with the name but my own family.

Wherever you find a strong German community here in the USA I understand that it is a fairly common name, but what do I know!



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Ceead, I tend to be a little bit of everywhere. Gaining those life experiences to share with the next generation. I do believe the DG name fits the person behind it.

pupil, apt name, glad to see you anywhere

gessie - You might want to edit that post and delete those recipe names since it didn't hyperlink... I got the same email, and I agree that it is a neat one!

Just pop around, I am nosing into something somewhere, even if it is to play on the mysterious disappearing dots thread, brought to us by the ingenious, Sugerweed.

Just the name drew me in, also.

I am always a pupil, but my newest craze is propagation. I almost like it as much as the flowers, shrubs or trees they produce. I am a mad scientist in every since of the word.

That's what Weez accuses me of. Being able to make any seed grow. My latest conquest has been trees like Larch and Maples here in Alaska, setting the seeds in the fall and letting the cold do it's thing. Inside a covered unheated greenhouse. In Southcentral Alaska unseasonable rains get some things started and then freeze them to death, thusly in the dry greenhouse I succeed.

I like your bonsi trees. Amazing. How many have you grown? How long do they take? And when was the first one started? Just curious for selfish reasons again.

They started as rescues growing on rotting stumps in the swamp being filled about 20 years ago. I had confiscated from the chainsaw gang a large cottonwood tree cut down and hollow to a length of 20 feet. I instructed said chainsaw gang to cut the hollow portions to equal lengths of 2 3/4 feet. I filled rescued hollow rounds with rotted wood of before mentioned rescued spruce trees resting places, mixed with my magic mix of KAC (Kick Donkey Compost) (And yes the logo does have a donkey kicking over a pile of something with a flower growing out of it, thanks to Weez.) and other easily obtained dirt. Then planted rescued trees in hollow rounds lined up judicially in a row at a distance from my gardens as to keep the snow plows from encroaching on my new green eden. At that time I had limited resources and had only dig up and transplant techniques. Little did I know that my feeble attempt to protect my garden start would, over the years,
become the stars of the area this many years later. (I assume you refer to the 25 foot tall spruce "standing up on legs" in way back previous post.) I would think to start one now would produce self standing roots in 6 to 7 years depending on the species of tree. And I would like to see more species experimented on in future. It was by accident when some of the cottonwood "planter" started splitting away, probably from the expanding roots in about the 10th year, and I pulled away part of the cottonwood and saw the large root (big as your thigh), tender looking. I studied it for a couple of months and saw it (the root) toughen up and grow bark. The rest is history, in 3 years I had pulled away all the cottonwood, started hosing out the soil, pruning some smaller roots and leveling the ground around it to give it the "look" it has now. I don't think they are considered "bonsai", just tortured.
btw I was looking up your phd in coleus, congrats
carol

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Are you still up.

yup

I think I would like to give it a go on a tree. Much thought will have to go into it and maybe a little guidence? I would like to do it as soon as feasible, with my limited knowledge, for my daughter. Something to grow with her. I am going to go back and re read those sections. I know tree selection will be one of the main issues. As you are well versed in them, would you have any suggestions? I like the thought of a little piece of you passed through me and on to my DD.

It's from "Fahrenheit 451", by Ray Bradbury.

I am glad you read my post. Just a little insight into my insanity? I like DG as it is my escape. I can be whomever I want. I guess that is enough here. Don't want your friends wondering where you have been hijacked off to. I have taken up enough of your time.......for now. I must go answer my other posts. I don't think I could have found a better quote to share with you.

Dr P, What are your fastest growing trees in AL and the slowest? I would suggest you try with both and see the results of the former as you create the legacy of the latter. As to the removable planter or vessel I'm thinking, do you have any logging or lumber mill friends or someone with access to a hollow log? The recycleable nature of a hollow log would be hard to replicate. It has properties of insulation from the heat, cold and organic to keep the form of the roots natural, though a square root shape would be a novelty and easily made out of cement or hypertufa. The height is also variable and dependant on your vigilance keeping the soil friable, draining and moisture retentive all at once. Notwithstanding any of this mumbo-jumbo, I think you should just do it.

I tried to delete all those cookies and i can't. Will try again.

Am I going to have to run you down on all your diverse posts? They don't keep my hours, (my friends, as you put them) I know them as little as I know you except Weez, who lives down the road. I end up perusing the poultry, European, hypertufa troughs, rock garden, of course "missing dots" along with anything else that catches my eye. I even put a question for you on the...whatchacallit... open chat?