I decided at the beginning of the year that I wanted to grow some veggies, and so we made a garden. It is really the Fort Knox of gardens. It is wrapped in rat wire to keep the rodents in the back yard out, and then there are no less than three layers of landscape fabric and wire under it. This is to keep the weeds out and the rodents from burrowing under to get to my carrots. I even bought a praying mantis egg to help control the bug population, but there was one thing we never protected against. That would be me. Well, me and the fact that I don’t like to be out in the 140 degree Texas summer.
Like seriously hot. And I don’t do hot. I don’t really do cold either, is there someplace with perfect weather year round? I’d like to live there. Oh, and while I’m at it, can I request no bugs too? They are pretty annoying.
All my greens have bolted, my fennel looks a little iffy, well, the fennel that came up. My carrots look great from the surface, but when I checked them, they are still just a tiny root.
My poor little lime tree, I just don’t know what to do about him.
His name is Lorenzo.
I may not be cut out for this farming thing after all. Good thing I didn’t get chickens, they would be running around in the heat with super long necks and tiny feet!
I did harvest three onions this week.
They were small, but according to my great-aunt Winnie, if you stomp them, they will get bigger. So I took the little man out there and let him go for it. We will see how it works. It sounds kinda weird, but who am I to argue with 100 year old logic. (Not you Winnie, talking about your mom)
Yes, I did just throw shoes on him and let him come out in a diaper to do some yard work for me. Is that wrong?
Anyway, I took the onions, sliced them up, and caramelized them.
They were delicious. I fed some to my two year old and he kept coming back to the table where they were saying “onions!!! Onions!!” I can’t get the kid to eat fruit, or any other vegetable for that matter, but he loves his onions. I’m not going to lie, it makes me a little proud that he loves onions so much, but I can’t just feed him onions for dinner, so I grilled up a flank steak, and mashed up some black beans for him and put onions on both.
I had the flank steak, but I also bought a watermelon at the farmers market that was AMAZING. Seriously, I can’t remember the last time I had a watermelon this good. So I sliced it up, sprinkled a little feta cheese on it, and since I had that lemon dressing laying around, I put some lettuce under it, and a little bit of the dressing on top. I’m not sure what was better, the meat with the onions, or the watermelon.
This was all just stuff I had on hand. Tonight, I’ll take the leftover meat, make a barbecue sauce, and make these potato croquette things I made in class yesterday.
I’ll tell you all a out that after I do it.
And I’ll post some pics of the garden on this post too. If Winnie, or anyone else has any suggestions I’m all ears!