I've been in a food rut lately. I've been working hard at getting myself back into the groove of things, and I just can't catch the beat. The kitchen runs faster than I do these days. What's it's problem?! I also made my first loaf of whole wheat honey bread. About a month ago, I freaked when I was out of flour and went and bought a 25lb. bag of Red Mill Organic Whole Wheat Flour. I thought, why not venture into the world of wheat for a while. I thought not having regular flour in the house would be ok between my self rise, and bread flour, and the wheat I should be ok, right? No. I need and want it all. It gives me a reason to go to Dick's and buy a large food storage bucket to store it in.
I also made avocado pesto tonight, another recipe that I pulled off Pinterest. I'm gonna need to go on there, and comment on these "pins". I spent $ on these pine nuts which kills me for reasons I'll talk about in a minute. Then again, I followed the recipe and added what I thought was way to much olive oil. I was correct. Half a cup of my expensive oil is too much. Do a 1/4 cup. More than a half cup of pine nuts, lemon juice, basil, sea salt, pepper, and what I was worried would be way too much garlic, was. Toss with pasta. Wheat honey bread went well with it, because hopefully the bread soaked up some of the oil. I would make it again, with some obvious modifications.
Pine nuts. $24lb - really? I grew up collecting cones with my dad for the pine nuts. For free too. He would roast them up and oh man they were so good, roasted and raw. I ate the left over nuts and just escaped back to a blissfully unawareness called childhood.
With all this rain, I worried about what I had planted outside. My snap peas are doing really good. Not a slug or snail anywhere near, they've all committed suicide somewhere dark and cold. My red onions are coming up and just a few spinach. Mia and Isabel's carrots are still coming up, in random clumps. It's cute. My pumpkins and other squash have showed no sign of life. They're all in the raised boxes. Along with the garlic I can't seem to rid myself of. It's doing fantastic...of course. The rhubarb is bursting with life and will need to run some to my neighbor tomorrow. My grapes have awoken and and my clematis is in full bloom.
We bought 5 evergreen tree's a few days ago, and found a really good tree farm with cool chickens that the girls enjoyed playing with and petting...yes they got to pet the turkey. "She" was nice, and stupid. Reminded me of the turkey's we always had growing up. Big, mean, dumb, and clucky. We finally pulled the rose bush that was just too big. It was really one of those rose tree's with the mini roses all over it. I'm sure it was nice in it's early days, but it was bending the fence, so it had to go. Just as we finally got the rose mess cleared, it started raining hard, and has barely stopped for days. We haven't been able to get the roots out. Hopefully when it dries out this weekend, we'll be able to get roots out, run the tiller a few times. Plant. Give em a few years, and we will have way more privacy that we have. Next to no maintenance in that spot sounds good. Our Japanese Maple that we planted last year, is doing pretty good so far, showing some new branches and the color is vibrant. We worried about it this winter. No worries! Skagit Valley Farmers Market starts tomorrow! I need good honey..STAT!
