Birthday picnic au plein air
December 24, 2005
With a small group of friends we celebrated my birthday with a fresh and freezing garden picnic in the painfully crisp air. Champagne, oysters and a sorrel quiche, in the case of the sorrel, eaten one meter away from the very plant that grew it. New neighbours, new but wonderful friends, all kicking the frozen ground and sipping champagne. We unanimously are longing for summer, or at least the spring planting.
Still, the leaves of the bruxelles sprouts are very sweet and the kale is abundant. In the case of the kale, the plants came from seeds that spilled unto the ground whilst moving the cabane, all so very sweet.
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Winter BBQ practice down at the kitchen gardens
December 23, 2005
Can kitchen garden soil ever really have enough potash? A quick look around the environs and the answer is a resounding ‘no’. It’s fire lighting time, again!
All the guys are doing it. Really. Every single last one of them.
Because lighting fires is like youth serum.
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My kitchen garden at midwinter
December 21, 2005
Granted, mine is the ugliest of all the kitchen gardens here, which is why it’s unbelieveable that upon my return to Occitania, I was able to pluck leafy greens at midwinter! I fully expected to find nothing, bugs and more nothing, but to my great surprise there are sun dried tomatoes, sorrel, sweet raddichio, leaf cabbage, red cabbage, beets, beet greens, sage, rosemary, mint, broccoli, and soon… bruxelles sprouts. Gleaning is yielding enough food for a birthday party luncheon on the 24th!
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