...has an entirely different meaning here!We do eat out occasionally, but getting take-out to eat at home is unheard of. If we're going to be home, why not make supper? It's fresher and healthier, not to mention cheaper, and doesn't have to take a lot of time or heat. Today is supposed to get in the high 90s. Supper will be a quick sauté of zucchini, yellow crookneck, onion and eggplant tossed with pasta and some pesto sauce and topped with a little grated cheese. Later in the week when the temps are supposed to drop off dramatically (we might even get SHOWERS!), I'll roast some potatoes and onions from the garden with garlic, rosemary and olive oil, and fry up some pattypan squash dipped in egg and flour.
Speaking of food, here's more for the four-leggeds:
That bale at the back is some regular valley hay, sole cutting. Rick picked it up to see if the horses will eat it. You can see how much more mature it is, without the green color and finer leaves of the second cutting. The horses tend to waste a lot of this kind of hay, while they clean up every bit of the second cutting. The sheep won't eat it at all. Can't say as I blame them - looks like bedding to me, too!
Last night I actually captured a good shot of the full moon rising over the Willamette Valley. Now if I could just manage a decent butterfly photo!That's it for now . . .
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Can you take some pictures when you cut up your pattypan squash? I want to try growing some next year but not sure how to prepare it.
All of your veggies looks sooooo good! My poor garden was totally neglected this year. I am now in the process of trying to get a bed cleaned out so I can plant some garlic.
That shot of the moon needs to be framed....it is exquisite! Beautiful! Magnificent....nuff said?
Marie, I learned to do the pattypan from Rick's side of the family. You tip it on its side and cut thin, long slices -- usually around in such a way that the core where the seeds are is a square (you throw that away, along with the first cut that takes off the bumpy edges). Does that make sense?
Ah Donna; thanks so much. I'm blushing!
Have you gotten any tomatoes yet? I feel guilty every day when I pick a pail full and throw them to my chickens...
Your moon photo is gorgeous!
I do so love the full moon. It's so light here that there are shadows in the pasture! I can see the sheep out by the big tree. Surreal
;-)
Nancy - NOOOOO! Oh, we've had a handful of yellow cherry tomatoes, picked one and two at a time, but nothing bigger (or redder). Continue to feel guilty, my friend.... ;-)
That does make sense Michelle, Thanks you so much!
GORGEOUS moon shot!!! I tried to get some last night, but I seem to have lost my touch. This month and last. I used to get good pictures, so I must be over thinking things.
Love your comment to Nancy ;-).
I can't imagine my sheep turning up any sort of hay I put before them! Shetlands are too smart :o).
Michelle, that's my kind of cooking! Of course, Dan always wants to know where the meat is, but maybe someday we can have some lovely garden only meals.
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