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What's for dinner?

jc100 said:
How do you still have arugula? All mine has gone to seed. Can you continually sow it through the season?
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I have a garden that doesn't get a lot of sun and has poor soil. I plant a few leafy items there -- lettuce kale, arugula and spinach. If I pluck the plants early and often they continually veg. Only the spinach has gone to seed, the arugula and bok choi are almost depleted they will die off. All planted mid May.
 
Mine went weeks ago. I’m leaving them to see if the seeds will give me a second crop before the summer is out. My lettuce bolted at the same time too but were amazing before that. I really prefer arugula to normal salad greens, way better taste. Also, last year my larger toms were ripe at this time. Still a week or so later this year.
 
jc100 said:
Mine went weeks ago. I’m leaving them to see if the seeds will give me a second crop before the summer is out. My lettuce bolted at the same time too but were amazing before that. I really prefer arugula to normal salad greens, way better taste. Also, last year my larger toms were ripe at this time. Still a week or so later this year.
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I graze off them as soon as they have leaves. They replace them until the veg period is over - about now for arugula and most tender lettuces. If you're plucking the plants non stop, they don't have the energy to bolt, they just die. Except spinach -- it always finds a way to bolt.

My May lettuce just petered out, I just planted a bunch of new lettuce in a shady area that will get lots of water. It will mature in about 6 weeks, I'll plant one more round in 3 weeks, it will finish by mid Oct. I covered my kale with burlap to keep it from burning until Sep 1, then it will burst another crop in the fall. I also plant radishes in mid July, they finish nicely in Oct.
 
My dog nearly bagged a Turkey in the front yard this morning but they got away, hopefully the wife will have better luck, I'm gettin kinda hungry.
 
Trials said:
My dog nearly bagged a Turkey in the front yard this morning but they got away, hopefully the wife will have better luck, I'm gettin kinda hungry.
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Tell your dog that turkeys are hard to catch during daylight. They are pretty much blind by twilight makes them a lot easier to catch.
 
3 of them are still in the front yard, could probably hit one with a stone if I didn't throw like a girl.
 
Made home made Baba ganoush yesterday as I got a big bag of baby eggplant from Costco. Surprisingly easy to make, char the eggplant whole evenly on the BBQ. Separate the skin from the flesh, mix with tahini, lemon juice, salt, garlic and olive oil and blend to an emulsion in a food processor. Delicious. I charred some red peppers at the same time as making the aubergine and skinned those and had them with the Baba ganoush on toasted ciabatta with a nice chilled Provençal rose.

Also managed to score some Tipo 00 soft wheat Italian flour from a local specialty grocery store so I’m making Neopolitain pizza dough to use on the pizza stone on the BBQ. I’ll make some home made sauce and top it with the roasted red peppers that are left over and some caramelised onions I’m making, I have some chorizo to slice on the top too. The Tipo 00 flour is the authentic stuff to use for a traditional Neapolitan pizza dough using just flour, water, yeast and salt. You need to let the dough rise slowly over several days though to get it right. Two of the days are to let it rise in the fridge.
 
Tonight all the kids were home, did some fat pork tenderloins over coals in the Egg. Added a nice pile of sauteed string beans, mama's famous summer Cesar salad, red potatoes roasted in butter seasoned with a few garden herbs and garlic, all washed down with an assortment of Dutch and German beers.
 
sburns said:
What really? And how does that taste? Is there more to it or just slap them on the grill?
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taste great, I like to mix butter with a bit of brown sugar and cinnamon for some additional flavours, but you could also just throw them on the grill and enjoy, just dont keep them there long
 
Mad Mike said:
Tonight all the kids were home, did some fat pork tenderloins over coals in the Egg. Added a nice pile of sauteed string beans, mama's famous summer Cesar salad, red potatoes roasted in butter seasoned with a few garden herbs and garlic, all washed down with an assortment of Dutch and German beers.
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only thing could make that better
is if you had a nice ride before they all came over
 
JavaFan said:
only thing could make that better
is if you had a nice ride before they all came over
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I did! It was short, around Scugog on my 76 GL1000. Just finished taking off all the Vetter clutter so she's back to original. First time out on her this year.
 
And a pic of yesterday's lunch date (she cleans up nice):

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nice bike, but lets get back on track

smoked short ribs, salt and pepper rub, 8hrs at 250

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Wagyu bacon, fried onions and garlic gnocchi

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mbroyda said:
nice bike, but lets get back on track

smoked short bit, salt and pepper rub, 8hrs at 250

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Wagyu bacon, fried onions and garlic gnocchi

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What's under the grilling rack on your Komodo? Is that some type of stone?
 
Ok, what the heck is wagu bacon?? please dont tell me the pigs sleep in padded cribs and get daily massages.

EDIT, nevermind I goolgled it, its beef bacon, and it will be stupid expensive. I'll be picking up a slab of beef ribs to trim out and then into the smoker, this should be an experiment in how to make bacon cost $30 a pound. Thanks for sending me down this rabbit hole....
 
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back in Ontario after 2 weeks in the oil patch
getting too old for this chit

so to wind down
I have a couple of days focused on the three B's

Bike, Beer and BBQ...in that specific order
have a chopped up rabbit marinating
red wine, SPG, MSG, oregano, rosemary and olive oil

while that is doing it's magic
I'm gonna get some miles on the scoot
later on get the coals going and sip on a Stella

will post up a pic once that rabbit is on the grill
 
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