Filed under: gardening
I planted pumpkin seeds on July 31st.
The vines are now starting to produce little pumpkins. These are not for Halloween, but to eat. I plan on using them as tureens to cook soup in.
Filed under: gardening
When you need to plant your seeds in the 95 degree heat, so you can have lettuce, kohlrabi, beets, etc in November you need to shade them. The way I have invented to do this is with old window screens.
After I plant the seeds, I put discarded window screens (the one good thing about a hail storm) over the seed bed. When I water, the droplets are dispersed nicely and the seeds stay moist longer.
When they come up, I put bricks under the screens so the plants have room to grow. When they get taller, I put a second brick under the screens.
And when the temperatures go down to the cool mid 80’s in late September?, I can take the screens off.
Filed under: recipes
After finishing 6 dozen veggie burgers John brought home from a freezer in a restaurant that he demolished this June, I craved more veggie burgers. I don’t particularly like tofu burgers, so I tried to make some bean burgers and like how these came out.
- 2 TBSPs canola oil
- .5 cup diced onions
- 1.5 cups cooked and drained black beans, canned okay
- .5 cup grated carrots
- .5 cup bread crumbs*
- .25 cup corn meal
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp garlic
- 1 tsp cumin-ptional
- 4 TBSPs vegetable broth
- Saute onions in 1 TBSP of the oil until carmelized.
- Combine beans, carrots, cornmeal, breadcrumbs, beans, onions and spices in a large bowl.
- Add the water and mix well with your hands, kind of smushing(sp?) together the beans with everything else
- Make 10 burgers, aprroximately 3 TBSPs each.
- Cook the burgers using the remaining oil in a cast iron frying pan on low/medium for about 5 minutes on each side.
- Enjoy.
* You can make bread crumbs by toasting bread and then crumbling it with your hands.
Eat Veggies, save the planet 