Scattelogical ramblings and desultory humor - Almost May

Sharran gave me a recipe for a salad with grapefruit and cucumbers together. Unexpected combination, but very good. I think its supposed to have range dressing which I don't like. I used a plain red wine vinaigrette.

All this veggie talk is making me hungry.
I'm for a sliced leftover chicken with tomato sandwich for lunch!

Can't stand lima beans or brussels sprouts. I love just about everything else. Collard greens, chard, broccoli, peas, grean beans, asparagus, spinach, carrots, cukes... you name it. Not too big on cauliflower. DS eats everything, even all his asparagus which he says he doesn't like.

I was severely traumatized by lima beans as a child and still can't stand them. I'm not a huge fan of brocolli or cauliflower, although I will choke them down occasionally. (OT: Does homegrown brocolli really taste that different from store bought? If so I might try growing some this year.) My absolute favorite are tomatoes...I eat several every day during tomato season, and home-frozen or canned ones during the winter. Cukes, greens of all sorts, cabbage, carrots, winter squash, peas, green beans, sweet potatoes, yum, yum, yum. Unfortunately I tend not to eat as many veggies as I should, if they're not fresh from the garden they're yucky.

DS is OK with most veggies but LOVES fruit. For a treat we'll give him dried fruit and he just chows down.

pam

I'm not big on cauliflower either.

I will eat any veggie "IF" I have to except Turnip. That is the grossest veggie I have encountered in my life. They were bitter, sour just discusting.

Parsnips and turnips, yuck. Can't stand the smell of them, kinda like dirty socks. Cauliflower has no taste or at least very little. A little cheese sauce will fix it up. Cheese sauce will fix most anything come to think of it. :)

Not okra!

Sounds to me like some people have been the victims of bad cooking.

Overcooked broccoli brussel spt etc. are bad.

broccoli raab is a great alternative to broccoli. By the time you get broccoli in the store its ready for the compost pile.

True. It's already three days old with stems like tree branches. Fresh from the garden it's totally different.

Broccoli raab is great with pasta.

Yummm broc and pasta. Throw in a tad of chicken.

What other vegetables have people grown successfully in containers - other than tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers?

containers: arugula, lettuce, chard, herbs, scallions, garlic for snipping.

Schickenlady: Or, if you are vegetarian like me you can throw in some flash cooked tofu, or crumbled Morning Star Farms veggie burgers and some chopped green onion with the broccoli raab. Shoe string carrots I also like flash cooked with mushrooms as a topping for pasta.

I grew eggplant. Didn't get much of a size on them but I like them smallish and tender.

I grew eggplant about 7 years ago. Had no plans to eat it. I gave it to one of my co-workers.
I only grew it because I thought they looked cute. LOL!

Nancy
BTW - Co-worker said it was very tasty. I'll take her word for it.

I have had broccoli raab -- and liked it! (surprise, surprise!)
It was in a restaurant - chicken stuffed with garlic, cheese, broccoli raab & bacon. YUMMY!

Oh... and I LOVE garlic!

Nancy

I posted a recipe for WARM CHICKEN & SPINACH SALAD in the Recipe Forum.
It's very tasty.
I leave out the mushrooms. (UGH! LOL!)
It's an excellent recipe for diabetics.

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/841208/

Nancy

So you can grow lettuces in containers? How big of a container? Or does lettuce produce more like herbs, you take leaves from the plant but it keeps going? What about spinach?
i'd love to grow some veggies this year, but i have very limited space. So i am looking for things that keep producing, because it seems like the only way it'd be worth it.
How big of a pot do you need for a tomato plant?

If you have a large container, like a whiskey barrel you can grow three indeterminate tomatoes at the same time. you will need a trellis of some kind for them to climb.

Cooks Garden has selections of cut- and - cut again lettuces and salad greens. You have to plant different selections for the summer though because the lettuces get bitter in the heat.

I eat a raw carrot nearly every day. One for me, one for rabbit.

Lettuce is very easy for containers. They even market containers just for it. Also windowsill boxes for greens. Yes - keep cutting and coming back.

Lima beans are my favorite veggie, and as kids we used to fight over who got more lima beans in their bowl of veggie soup.

Amy, the bigger the container, the easier the care once things heat up. Less watering. Snow peas (I like Mammoth Melting) look pretty, with their streaky leaves and white flowers, on trellises and can be replaced with running beans. Scarlet runners are edible, though not the best green beans, and have red flowers. Your seasons are much shorter, but DD used to grow sweet potatoes in her S. facing room in the winter and I'd cut them back and put them in the raised planters. By Fall, we'd have a nice little clump. Are mustards used in landscape in your area? Several years ago I planted fancy mustard in the planters for Fall/Winter. We went to one of our local international markets and there was our mustard labeled "Korean mustard"...I went home and cooked the landscaping (lol)!

Maypop. Just one of those leaves would make supper for me! Interesting art work in the background there. Is that you?

That would be me and the art is Woodie Long. We own five pieces. I did the mats and designed the frames. The paintings float on the mats. Steve made the frames. He studied for several years with an Austrian master frame maker when we first met.

That did make a boat load of greens. They're hot as heck! That's the one the Koreans use to make kimchi. As my dear belated MIL would say, "Truly cathartic".

Laurel

A friend of mine has one of Woodie Long's paintings. I love the simplicity of them.

There's a video of him creating one of his paintings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq6iANIWuCE

Nancy

Hi Laurel! Nice to see your face. Those are some enormous leaves.

Enormous leaves. A very nice face.

Ahh. I always wanted large leaves :). The face...well it came with the leaves. The photo is from last year and was taken for a Korean nun that I took a nursing course with. She's the one who gave me the heads up on my edible landscape.

Gloria, speaking of heads up...Southern Living, May, page 100...a curbside of lettuce! Come on, how much carbon monoxide can they contain? Does eating it count for reducing our carbon footprint?

Nancy, how old is your friend's Woodie? Our collection will be ten in October and they were a few years old when I got them. I'd love to see your friend's if you can DMail a photo and would be glad to send you ours. Woodie is currently collaborating with Jimmy Lee Suddath in N.Y.. Should be interesting. Suddath's pieces are more religious. The Woodies came from a basement collectables shop, the Frog and Peach, in Cooperstown, N.Y.. The 'going out of business' owner told me a "scruffy looking guy" came by a few years earlier with some paintings under his arm and he felt sorry for him. He had them upstairs for a while and then stuck them in the basement corner. None of his customers seemed interested in Southern primitives. I got all five for the asking price of one...SCORE!!! Maybe he should have gone to Woodie for a loan (lol).

L

I hope this isn't sending twice. Pressed the send and got a blank screen. If so, forgive me everyone.

Maypoplaurel. You can eat roadside lettuce if you want to.

Not Moi! And I wouldn't feed it to my rabbit either. I do have a volunteer garlic under a shrub down by the road. Every year I try to get it started some place else. But every year it still comes back down by the road.

I guess I could feed it to someone I don't like, but I would fear that garlic for me or my fuzzy friends.

If you live by a leisurely country road, you might try road side lettuce.

I live on Alabama Highway 14, truck route. I do not want to eat after a truck!

Maybe if you planted enough of it, it might help the carbon situation. An interesting project to test.

I have no idea how long she had her painting, or where she got it.

The only thing I remember about it is that it was of 3 girls sitting on the grass having a picnic, or tea party or something.
I can't get a pic of it.
Right now it's in storage at her sister's house in Wisconsin (I think).
My friend is in Germany where her husband is stationed.

Nancy

Its now Official............ Its MAY!!!!

Doesn't feel like it.

W A I T. Im not finished with April!

What are you going to do with April and then what are you going to do with May? After that its June. How many women you have to deal with?

Is there a reason that April, May and June are people's names? One syllable? Nice weather? October would sound silly, wouldn't it?

I know someone who named their little girl January....she was born in April. Go figure!

I would rather have January then Ham.

April May an June are from the Romans who--- chauvanists they were, didn't care a figg about women's names for their calander.

Well, there's July, August, September, October and November. Take the first letter of each of those months and get JASON.

It was on Jeopardy many years ago.