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  • Pocatello, Idaho
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Penelope, I used to enjoy watching the cooking shows ten years ago. I do not watch them any more. Turn of your TV and enjoy your cooking again. I grow lots of herbs and I enjoy adding them to whatever I am cooking. I love preparing simple and crea...
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I simply must begin carding the llama wool on my porch. Is a drum carder in my future?
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Im a big fan of slow cookers. Just throw everything in and turn on the switch. When you come at night it is all ready and steaming hot. I enjoy grated carrot as a side dish and a bowl of grated beetroot in yogurt. Cook what taste good to you and ...
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Penelope, I'm a retired pastry chef and when I watched Top Chef last night I didn't know half of what they were talking about. LOL! I get tired of all the celebrity stuff too. It seems like all they know how to cook is fast cooking expensive cuts....
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Maybe it's just me, but the more I watch TV cooking shows and read about how vegetables and meats should be "cooked to perfection" the more intimidated I feel about cooking and gardening. Things that came easily to me these past zillion years, lik...
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My first seed catalog for 2010 arrived today, Nov. 19, 2009
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Where do you live and garden?
Pocatello, Idaho, USA
How long have you been growing food?
forever!
Dream garden travel destination:
Provence, France, where tomatoes taste incredibly wonderful and people treat eating with reverence.
Favorite foods:
Paella, Spaghetti sauce the way I make it, Greek marinated cauliflower, Shortrib one-pot meal with carrots, whole onions, potatoes and giant wedges of cabbage; raw peas fresh from the garden, new potatoes roasted in butter with coarse sea salt, pickled beets, wilted lettuce with green onions and hot bacon vinaigrette, steamed fresh green beans, homemade wholegrain bread with raspberry jam

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Pesto

I just made a wonderful batch of fresh pesto with Genovese basil from my garden, pine nuts, freshly graded parmesan cheese, extra virgin olive oil and garlic. I grew garlic this year for the first time and it formed large lovely bulbs, the kind with the hard stem in the center. The basil perfumed the whole house -- not only does good food taste delicious, but pleasant aromas add greatly to the pleasure and contentment of a household.

Posted on September 16, 2009 at 3:52pm — 9 Comments

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Juggling the Jungle

I was out of town for three days and returned to my garden feeling overwhelmed. Everything looks overgrown, going to seed, full of weeds, completely unmanageable. I know all this didn't happen in three days; my perception shifted is all, and I've drifted into my annual midsummer panic.

I dug in, picked the snowpeas and snap peas hanging on the drooping vines and found a few green beans as well. Tomatoes are barely setting on. Nothing on the pepper plants even though they've been blooming. The b… Continue

Posted on July 19, 2009 at 11:24am — 3 Comments

Penelope

Juggling the Jungle

I was out of town for three days and returned to my garden feeling overwhelmed. Everything looks overgrown, going to seed, full of weeds, completely unmanageable. I know all this didn't happen in three days; my perception shifted is all, and I've drifted into my annual midsummer panic.

I dug in, picked the snowpeas and snap peas hanging on the drooping vines and found a few green beans as well. Tomatoes are barely setting on. Nothing on the pepper plants even though they've been blooming. The b… Continue

Posted on July 19, 2009 at 11:21am —

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Wilted Lettuce, Wilted Life

Today, at long last, my leaf lettuces are big enough to harvest to make a bowl of my grandmother's wilted lettuce recipe. The leaves are washed and draining in a colander along with a handful of scallions. For lunch, I will finely chop some bacon ends and pieces and cook them crisp in my 4 or 5-inch cast iron skillet, add fresh ground pepper, a teaspoon of sugar and a healthy amount of red wine vinegar (sometimes I use cider vinegar). When the vinegar boils, I pour it immediately over a bowl of… Continue

Posted on May 24, 2009 at 2:02pm — 4 Comments

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Sunshine in Pocatello and a bit about Onions

Today, April 5, isn't particularly warm, but the sun is shining and I've once again been puttering in my small garden. These past weeks we've been inundated with wild snowstorms nearly every day. It snows, then melts; we get our hopes up, then it snows again. We are tired of winter and anxious about getting our gardens started.

Today, I raked caked up leaves off my gravel area and piled them where I want to suppress some weeds. I exposed the chives that I separated last year and replanted; they… Continue

Posted on April 5, 2009 at 2:14pm — 4 Comments

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At 6:46pm on November 17, 2009, Maggie said…
Hi Penelope, great to hear from you.
Looks like your long cold season has arrived, we are experiencing our first ever November heatwave here in South Australia, 39 degrees Celsius today and 41 tomorrow !!!!
We can not even get a cool day to plant all our seedlings out.
At 2:01pm on November 17, 2009, Kathryn said…
You poor thing hope you have enough wood or whatever your using to keep warm.
At 4:09pm on November 16, 2009, Muhammad Nadeem Iqbal said…
Yes, From Sunflower seed you extract oil...
At 12:27pm on November 15, 2009, Dr. D K Sadana said…
Major ones - wheat and rice. Vegetables - Carrot, cauliflower, Brinjal, Potato. Many more.
At 11:44am on November 4, 2009, Kathryn said…
You know I copied your comment from my page into this comment box so I dont forget what you wrote then I delete it before I press the button. Sorry. LOL and I still forgot about the crab cakes........they sound great especially with the lime sauce.
At 11:41am on November 4, 2009, Kathryn said…
How is your new place? Are you enjoying it? Any new recipes? My friend Jonathan made a curry last night, a bit too hot for me, but the flavor was good. I made crab cakes from canned crab which were pretty good with the lime flavored sauce.

Yes enjoying living here it is much warmer and the house in centrally heated. Last year this time we were freezing and walking through snow, the climate is much milder the food is more economical and more diverse as well. Love a good curry, he needs to make those milder creamier ones for you. I am making brocolli soup at the moment, as for new recipes I always have some. Will post one or two tomorrow. Getting back to pulses in the cold weather might make a lentil salad or pilav. pomegrantes are still in so enjoying them and have just processed a few kilos of olives for fun. Like your web site and will have to sign up for the updates. I had a potter for a friend who made custom designed funeral urns, she did quite well. Maybe your shrouds will be the same. Take care.
At 6:14am on November 4, 2009, Kathryn said…
Hello how are you have thought of you. Has it snowed there yet and is your heating adequate. My question mark is not working sorry. Tell me what weaving you are doing lately.
At 3:26pm on November 2, 2009, Glenn Fletcher said…
Hi Penelope
I,ll bring an apple over. It will only take me a minute.
You said you had a frost at the beginning of October. We havn,t had one yet.
We,ve have had one of the best autumns in years. Cool but sunny mornings. My favourite time to be in the garden.
At 11:17am on October 15, 2009, Maxine Walker said…
On grapevine pruning Penelope I meant to say I prune last seasons growth down to two nodes each when the vine is leafless or just as it's starting new growth - NOT the new growth coming on!
At 10:35am on October 1, 2009, Kathryn said…
You know when we were kids we had a black cat but with a more innocent name. Vegemite - being American that probably wont hold any meaning for you. But Johnathons cats name, every culture can appreciate.
 
 

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Glenn! we also have the same allotment system.In which about 550 square feet ,(if I am not mistaken) or so is alloted to a family to grow fuel wood on it .Govt. only plants the trees and then the family looks it aftern grow what everthey want alon...
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I would love to have an allotment, there needs to be more of them.
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great shot, yours seem to have the most on it.
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I pay £50 pounds a year approximately for my allotment. This amount has doubled in the last few years as their popularity has increased. Mine is 300 square yards, although there are smaller ones. The trend nowadays is to split them in two, so they...
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I believe the British allotment system was developed in the late 19th & early 20th centuries to feed the urban poor mainly in the north of the country. Areas of land in urban areas were owned by local government and small parcels [300 square yards...
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