2006 Bloggies, that blog awardish time of year again…
January 7, 2006
Wing-flapping all around! Thanks to the kind folks for nominating culiblog in the 2006 Bloggies. If you want to show your appreciation to the author of your daily dose, you can still nominate culiblog for the categories: best food blog, best under-represented blog (!) or… dare I say it, blog of the year?
But only until the 10th of January, so carpe diem your tochas on over to the 2006 Bloggies. I’ve nominated about thirty of my favourite blogs in the various categories: Doors of Perception weblog, BLDGBLOG, Pruned and FutureFeeder, to name just a few. In the food blog category, I’m keeping my nominations shtum for the time being. Well, as shtum as one can be with the linkage in the flanks of my blog…
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Brussels pearls neither bitter nor farty
January 6, 2006
Look what Maman brought home for dinner tonight! While everyone else in the valley is shooting at wild boar, I managed to wrestle to the ground and uproot this domestic brussels sprouts tree. Admittedly, that sounds like I’m getting the short end of the stick, but the pearly buttons and sweet leaves of this homegrown resemble nothing of the bitter fartiness that I know to be storebought brussels sprouts. I’ve been scheming on how to bring back a whole tree to the sorrel-eating Dishy Lad on Tuesday, when I return to Amsterdam.
As a kid, not liking the food dished up at the dinner table was not an option. It was more or less expected that one would come to the table with a good appetite, sit down, join in the bubbly conversation and not only eat your food, but enjoy it. There was only one thing that brother Aar and I didn’t really like, and that was brussels sprouts. Not liking something in our house meant that it was prepared once a year in the name of good health, and that we ate it anyway, smothered in tabasco sauce.
Tonight we’re having brussels ‘pearls’ as a snack, that’s how freaky we are! Two handfuls thrown into salted boiling water for just a few seconds, tossed with lightly salted butter and a squeeze of lemon and served on cocktail skewers. The friends were eating right out of my lap.
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Green manure cover crops and another garden parcel
January 5, 2006
Yesterday I aquired another parcel of land when I went to pay my yearly subscription at Monsieur L. Thirty-five euros per parcel (roughly 100m2) and all the river water you can use. Still, with the chateau of the Comtesse de R. in plain view, we the serfs of the C’-ac allotments know that all of this could be taken away at any time. But for the time being, I have enough ground to grow and experiment to my heart’s content. It’s extremely relaxing when my largest concern is how to increase the biomass of my soil. I’ll be experimenting by sowing ‘green manure’ cover crops (buckwheat, yellow mustard, soy beans and alfalfa) on my two parcels until spring planting begins in March.
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