I have these bursts of energy to cook, two or three times a week and today was one of them. Mostly whatever I make lasts me for a day or two as decent leftovers. In the late morning, I cooked 2 ears of corn in one small covered container and a container of rice above it cooking in the Global oven. The tasty Roma tomatoes—10—from last week’s/ CSA are dehydrating in the Tulsi. Stacked on top on that tray—upside down small glass dish in the middle to support the top tray--are some more tomatoes and a green pepper also dehydrating.
Then, on the stove inside, browned last of ground turkey with some garlic and small purple onion, plus some leftover small pieces of tomato. I like the elephant garlic we get from the CSA better than regular garlic, easier to handle and not so much odor. I like the small onions for the same reasons.
The high heat comes in today and the next few days so no more cooking in the late afternoons.
Since I pick up my CSA share on Wednesday, I like to go through the fridge and clean it out before I bring home the fresh food. So, after cleaning out the refrigerator today, I had some decent leftover veggies so I chopped them up and put them in the fridge. Tomorrow I will put them out in the solar oven to see how well they make vegetable stock. I haven’t tried this before and I really like having some kind of stock on hand. I’ll use the recipe that recommends a bay leaf, two stalks of thyme, some parsley and I think one other herb or spice ??? I see how it's turns out.
Peace, shamba
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Dilemmas ...
To solar cook or not to solar cook …
To eat a peanut butter and honey sandwich or delve into the onions, lentils and rice(they’d have to be cooked)…
To wait and see if the sun comes out of those grey clouds that aren’t raining or not ….
To be one with the plethora (I’ve always loved that word) of tomatoes from the CSA or …
Whether ‘tis nobler to cut the tomatoes and brave the damp heat outside to dehydrate or wait until another using the dreadful humid heat to postpone action …..
Okay, so I made my choice! :)
I cut up the tomatoes and put them outside in the Tulsi oven to dehydrate. I’ve saved some to eat not dehydrated, too. Dehydrating will take a day or two but no more than that. If they are out there too long, like a day too long, they can taste scorched. I swear the last group I did just tasted too crispy and a little scorched. But two days in the sun has come out tasty before.
As for lunch, it’s lentils and rice and onions and some herbs and out in the other solar oven.
And the sun has come out in a clear blue sky after mid day.
Most days of the past two weeks have started very overcast looking like some rain but they clear off and don’t do anything else. My neighborhood finally got some rain last night …. Steady couple of hours, no big wind storm.
The clouds when they are fluffy and white seem like they are ships with puffy sails gliding in a fleet across the sky. The dark low clouds and the puffy fleets are a welcome change from endless hot blue sky. Some people would find endless blue sky hard to ever get tired of but it is possible.
And on Food shopping day from Sprouts, I filled in my gaps in food storage:
Chickpeas, red lentils, yellow split peas, cornmeal, farina, dried apricots, dried cranberries, two jars of that applesauce I really like from Sprouts, a special on an attractive jar of apricot jam so I got one of them.
Looking over their bulk spices section to see about having lemon grass or sweet grass. I didn’t get anything there but picked up two bunches of fresh parsley to probably dehydrate if I don’t get it all used in a few days. I’m completely out of ANY kind of parsley, and my parsley plant isn’t producing much of anything right now.
Two dilemmas solved today. I've got lots more I just don't want to do any of the choices I have!
peace, Shamba
To eat a peanut butter and honey sandwich or delve into the onions, lentils and rice(they’d have to be cooked)…
To wait and see if the sun comes out of those grey clouds that aren’t raining or not ….
To be one with the plethora (I’ve always loved that word) of tomatoes from the CSA or …
Whether ‘tis nobler to cut the tomatoes and brave the damp heat outside to dehydrate or wait until another using the dreadful humid heat to postpone action …..
Okay, so I made my choice! :)
I cut up the tomatoes and put them outside in the Tulsi oven to dehydrate. I’ve saved some to eat not dehydrated, too. Dehydrating will take a day or two but no more than that. If they are out there too long, like a day too long, they can taste scorched. I swear the last group I did just tasted too crispy and a little scorched. But two days in the sun has come out tasty before.
As for lunch, it’s lentils and rice and onions and some herbs and out in the other solar oven.
And the sun has come out in a clear blue sky after mid day.
Most days of the past two weeks have started very overcast looking like some rain but they clear off and don’t do anything else. My neighborhood finally got some rain last night …. Steady couple of hours, no big wind storm.
The clouds when they are fluffy and white seem like they are ships with puffy sails gliding in a fleet across the sky. The dark low clouds and the puffy fleets are a welcome change from endless hot blue sky. Some people would find endless blue sky hard to ever get tired of but it is possible.
And on Food shopping day from Sprouts, I filled in my gaps in food storage:
Chickpeas, red lentils, yellow split peas, cornmeal, farina, dried apricots, dried cranberries, two jars of that applesauce I really like from Sprouts, a special on an attractive jar of apricot jam so I got one of them.
Looking over their bulk spices section to see about having lemon grass or sweet grass. I didn’t get anything there but picked up two bunches of fresh parsley to probably dehydrate if I don’t get it all used in a few days. I’m completely out of ANY kind of parsley, and my parsley plant isn’t producing much of anything right now.
Two dilemmas solved today. I've got lots more I just don't want to do any of the choices I have!
peace, Shamba
Thursday, March 4, 2010
What a beautiful day!
Cool breeze but our usual sunny skies with some white clouds! the citrus buds are about to pop open but haven't yet. The pomegrante tree is all leafed out. It only take 3 weeks once it gets a very few leaves open.
I put rice out in the Tulsi oven for cooking in the back patio. It's the first solar cooking dish of the year. :)
March 4th Veggies Are –
Carrots Sweet Potatoes
Citrus Mustard Green
Swiss Chard Lettuce Heads
Dill Turnips
Oranges! And the Chard is gorgeous and lettuce heads HOORAY! Things look very familiar to eat this week. That means just the reading of the names makes me want to eat them. :)
All, i mean ALL of my grains were gone after 2 months of using what I had on hand, I've very fond of cooked cereal for breakfast and that's where most of the grains go. So, I trundled off to Sprouts to fill out my grains list. Picked up some bell peppers for very inexpensive eac. I'm going to dehydrate them in the next few days.
Feeling better than I have for about a week.
cheers,
shamba
I put rice out in the Tulsi oven for cooking in the back patio. It's the first solar cooking dish of the year. :)
March 4th Veggies Are –
Carrots Sweet Potatoes
Citrus Mustard Green
Swiss Chard Lettuce Heads
Dill Turnips
Oranges! And the Chard is gorgeous and lettuce heads HOORAY! Things look very familiar to eat this week. That means just the reading of the names makes me want to eat them. :)
All, i mean ALL of my grains were gone after 2 months of using what I had on hand, I've very fond of cooked cereal for breakfast and that's where most of the grains go. So, I trundled off to Sprouts to fill out my grains list. Picked up some bell peppers for very inexpensive eac. I'm going to dehydrate them in the next few days.
Feeling better than I have for about a week.
cheers,
shamba
Sunday, November 29, 2009
November 29
I dehydrated the green beans and bell peppers that I got at the farmer’s market last week. I certainly couldn’t have used them up with all my other produce this week.
Thanksgiving: Turkey meat loaf today. There’s asparagus, kale and arugala for green veggies to choose from and pumpkin pie—my made with an organic pie filling—and well, I don’t know what else yet. I do have two sweet potatoes that would be great roasted, too.
S. is using the day as her day off and she does have to go back to work on Friday. She stopped by later on Thanksgiving and we had some pie together. She loves the taste of the dehydrated red sweet peppers and the dehydrated tomatoes.
No more dehydrated veggies, I ate the rest of them up the day after Thanksgiving!
Moved the herbs to the front porch. They’ll get the sun they should have there until about march or so.
Going now to bake some bread, not breadk that has to be kneaded though. right arm and shoulder are improving a lot. Injuries get old fast!
Peace, shamba
Thanksgiving: Turkey meat loaf today. There’s asparagus, kale and arugala for green veggies to choose from and pumpkin pie—my made with an organic pie filling—and well, I don’t know what else yet. I do have two sweet potatoes that would be great roasted, too.
S. is using the day as her day off and she does have to go back to work on Friday. She stopped by later on Thanksgiving and we had some pie together. She loves the taste of the dehydrated red sweet peppers and the dehydrated tomatoes.
No more dehydrated veggies, I ate the rest of them up the day after Thanksgiving!
Moved the herbs to the front porch. They’ll get the sun they should have there until about march or so.
Going now to bake some bread, not breadk that has to be kneaded though. right arm and shoulder are improving a lot. Injuries get old fast!
Peace, shamba
Friday, October 23, 2009
October 23rd
First of all: We've passed into the astrological sun sign of Scorpio. :) This is my sign and I love it!
Second, not much to report about the leftover food challenge this week: Had too many tomatoes earlier in the week and I dried them in the Tulsi oven. I sliced them in half this time rather than quarters. This worked well, I thought.
No real leftovers today, Friday, so I will be making a whole new meal or two for the next two days. I have fresh produce that I'm using up steadily now that the tomatoes are dehydrated.
Third, something I read the other day, it was this week:
Housing all over the country to go down more in value, according to this Yahoo link.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Homes-About-to-get-much-cnnm-699910894.html?x=0&ref=patrick.net
I quote the part about Phoenix in particular, since I live there. “In Phoenix values have already collapsed by 54% and could fall another 23.4%. In both cities, Fiserv anticipates the losses to continue into 2011, but they will be less than 5%.”
That adds up to: 82.4% I just added the whole 5%. I ‘m thinking of 2006 to 2011 as the peak to trough years that residential housing prices have fallen.
Peace, shamba
Second, not much to report about the leftover food challenge this week: Had too many tomatoes earlier in the week and I dried them in the Tulsi oven. I sliced them in half this time rather than quarters. This worked well, I thought.
No real leftovers today, Friday, so I will be making a whole new meal or two for the next two days. I have fresh produce that I'm using up steadily now that the tomatoes are dehydrated.
Third, something I read the other day, it was this week:
Housing all over the country to go down more in value, according to this Yahoo link.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Homes-About-to-get-much-cnnm-699910894.html?x=0&ref=patrick.net
I quote the part about Phoenix in particular, since I live there. “In Phoenix values have already collapsed by 54% and could fall another 23.4%. In both cities, Fiserv anticipates the losses to continue into 2011, but they will be less than 5%.”
That adds up to: 82.4% I just added the whole 5%. I ‘m thinking of 2006 to 2011 as the peak to trough years that residential housing prices have fallen.
Peace, shamba
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