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[ness]

3 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Whoa JoeD!!  You called out his deck?   

And my choice of bread. He's clearly the result of poor breeding.

It was my first BLT of the season, and I had to buy all the ingredients. Sniffle. Roma 'Cottage Bread', for the record. It's essentially Wonderbread with a dusting of flour on top. And, pre-cooked microwave Hormel Black Label bacon. Farmer's market mater (not that flavorful), light mayo and green leaf lettuce. It went together quick and tasted good.

Got a feeling there wasn't much to talk about dinner-wise at the D household. Probably too busy polishing the deck the make something

 

 

[BilletHead]

       Well the deck has that old weathered look, character I suppose just like our buddy Ness. That whats makes us all different. If we had that polished look and all were the same it would be a boring world I think. If we were born knowing everything and had noting to learn it be a bummer.

  I really hate to tell you Ness (NOT) that I had my trillionth BLT this morning for breakfast. Actually came home to rotten tomatoes on my plants. Had a house sitter this trip. She still had picked and there was and still are forty to fifty tomatoes on the table. Mostly yellow sunny boys. I am not sure why but this has been the best garden for us ever. Guess the stars aligned, we planted the right sign of the moon or just got lucky?   Oh and the bread for the BLT came from a bakery from Wyoming

BilletHead

[snagged in outlet 3]

23 minutes ago, ness said:

Probably too busy polishing the deck

Haha!! 

We've had dozens of BLT's this year.  Homegrown tomatoes, lettuce, microwave bacon and Sara Lee Whole wheat bread.  I hate whole wheat bread.

[rps]

I blocked someone months ago. Don't miss him. If you hang up the phone, they have nothing to do and go someplace else.

[Johnsfolly]

We finally got into some tomatoes after we fenced off the garden from the waskly wabbits. So lots of straight up sliced tomato, salt, pepper, and mayo on toast (white for the wife and kids and multigrain for me) sandwiches in our house. Too many fishing trips to be able to pay for bacon  and have no lettuce growing.

Our cherry tomato and the lemon boy plants are done. The little cherokee purple plant that could earlier this year now has one fruit getting ripe and four or five others following behind. We'll see how far they progress before we pick them for fried green tomatoes. So I may post one more tomato dish. We also have a volunteer butternut squash growing in the garden. Can't wait until that one ripens. I love winter squash.

[Johnsfolly]

RPS

I'll have to show my wife your Asian pear dish. We love Asian pears and have cardamom in house.

I wonder how they would be if you poached them in a red wine with star anise. Do you think that the Asian would not stand up to a red, since it is not a strong flavored pear? 

[rps]

4 hours ago, Johnsfolly said:

RPS

I'll have to show my wife your Asian pear dish. We love Asian pears and have cardamom in house.

I wonder how they would be if you poached them in a red wine with star anise. Do you think that the Asian would not stand up to a red, since it is not a strong flavored pear? 

Good question. I did white wine the first time to try the pear out poached. It was very subtle. Red wine poach makes a lovely dish, but you taste the wine more than the fruit (this is not necessarily a bad thing). Star anise would work great as well. My actual thought was that I should try a rose'. Sadly, tolerable rose' is inexpensive in Europe but not so cheap here and life is too short for any more Mateus. If only I could get my hands on a rose' I bought in Australia. Charles Melton, near Adelaide, made a wine called Rose of Virginia (his wife was named Virginia). His vineyard was across a two lane black top from the world famous Henschke wines. Best rose' I ever had, and the pears would be killer poached in that.

Give them a try and let me know.

[Gavin]

Think that a sweet wine would work better than a dry wine. Missouri Chardonnell or a German Riesling maybe. Both are pretty cheap.

[joeD]

I'm right here, keeping the world safe for democracy.

Lighten up. Just giving someone "the business"  Beavers.

[MOPanfisher]

It's a very delicate metaphor, with the harmony of the toasted bread and the sun toasted deck lumber.  Heck I have quick picking tomatoes, they are just rotting now.  Guess I otta pick some, but the cantalouoes are producing amongst the weed patch where the garden is.  My wife brought 3 into the house and they are about to stink us out, so I know they will be a delicious lunch.