Greetings from the Garden! This week’s box has sprouts, dry beans, carrots, beets, onions, garlic, kohlrabi, celery root, radishes, and cabbage. Field Notes. This weekend I plant to use some of the potting soil to plant onion seed. Wish me luck! Ken had done all the planting. In the kitchen I started sprouts for this week. From the Kitchen. Sprouts are a sure sign of spring. This cold winter the frost has …
Each winter we grow sprouts. I often make sprout salads, and they are also great in sandwiches in place of lettuce. Today for lunch I made guacamole and had an open faced sandwich with sprouts. I had bought some avocados on sale, sliced them open, removed pit, scooped out flesh and combined with minced onion, lemon juice, a bit of mayo, salt, pepper, and topped with some chili powder. Then I …
Ken forgot people’s names. He knew who they were, he could tell them their entire story, but heir name? Not so much. Once when we attended an evening mass he approached a person and seemed excited (later I learned it was because he actually remembered her name), and said, “Dorothy, Dorothy!” He then followed with a gesture to me and said, “This is….” Yes, he was so excited he remembered Dorothy he had forgotten my …
