Making: Playdoh, because Miss 2 thought it would be a good idea to knead watermelon into the last lot.
Dinner: Spinach (silverbeet) and lentil lasagne.
Challenge/s: Dealing with the zucchini harvest now that my freezer is chock-a-block full!
Solution/s: Pickles? We're not really pickle eaters as such, and I don't have a waterbath canning unit (nor preserving bottles, so using a stockpot as an alternative is no good), but have come across some recipes that don't specify canning. Suggestions?
Transgressions: We drove to school again (in my defence, Miss 2 has diarrhoea: a quick pick up was in order I feel!).
Reading: Beyond Organics, Helen Cushing.
Utilities for November: Gas 41.4 MJ/day; Water 401L/day; Electricity 12.9 kWh/day.
Contemplating: Homemade spinach and ricotta ravioli.
6 comments:
lol about the lettuce seeds/seedlings ~ I can't get seeds to germinate either :(
Hope Miss 2 is better ASAP!
Just caught up with your latest doings - do you ever sit still LOL ?
Can't help you with the lettuce, sorry, I usually scatter them generously with the old rule of thumb "one for the pheasant, one for the crow, one to rot and one to grow".
My crystal ball says you'll be eating loads of zucchini soon !
You could dry them - apparently on a tray in a car parked in the sun makes a good solar dryer, but I haven't tried it. You need to bring them in each night and replace them in the day until they are dry. You can also dry things in a very slow oven, but it will use power. Once dry, they can be stored in an airtight container.
Of course, you need a dry day!
Glad to hear your clothes line is working at well. The dried zucchini sounds like a great idea...what about zucchini muffins (think there is a bacon and cheese and zucchini one on my blog) or a zucchini cake?
Have never tried lettuce from seed but my mum seems to get them to grow well in a pot!
Hi Ali, thanks :-) She seems OK today, thank goodness!
Hi Jayne, LOL, with three kids, no I never sit still!
Hi Suz, I have a dehydrator (although it's actually sunny again today) so I think I might dry them as you've suggested. I dried a heap of eggplant in desperation last year, and it wasn't actually too bad in slow-cooked casseroles over winter. I'd love to get a solar cooker/ dryer going though, it's on my "to-do" list...
Hi Lis, Yes, I've got some lovely zucchini cake and cookie recipes - but they only use about one zucchini each! So to use up the stack I've got already I'd have to make up big batches and freeze them - and my freezer is full!I am going to cook a nice chocolate zucchini cake today actually, yum. Not so good for the hips though, LOL.
Cheers, Julie.
do you have lawn lettuce too!
My dad has lettuce popping up all over his garden and he gives me a pot full of them when they're still small and I plant them out. this year I got some different seed, started them in a pot (yogurt tub with holes punched in it) and planted them out on the weekend. It was too hot for seedlings to be starting out in the garden and some of them won't be making it, but the ones that didn't get so much sun are doing fine.
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