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By Chris, on March 22, 2009, at 4:19 pm
Honey-Curry Roasted Root Vegetables
Our yummy dinner – yellow beets, sweet potatoes, turnip, and possibly rutabaga (the Earth Fare checkout clerk and I had a dispute over this — looked like a turnip to me) tossed with toasted sesame oil, salt, pepper, curry, and honey and then roasted in the toaster oven until they caramelized a bit.
I absolutely hated all of these vegetables as a child, except beets — and Joy hated those. Recently we’ve been revisiting our childhood food enemies and found them a lot more agreeable. We’ve also been eating a lot of various kinds of squash and enjoyed them.
I still can’t stand onions, peas, and carrots, though. That hasn’t changed. I’ve tried hard to get past this but I don’t think it counts if you swallow the peas whole like vitamins.
By Chris, on March 22, 2009, at 2:57 pm
Everything is up in the herb tray now… and the big jim peppers are sprouting like crazy. Still no sign of the tomatoes, cilantro, or sunflowers, yet.
By Chris, on March 22, 2009, at 2:55 pm
No idea what these are.
Always good to see honeybees these days!
Not sure if you can see the pollen all over the bee and the flower at this magnification.
Not a welcome sight in a garden, but there’s a sort of grace to a slug.
By Chris, on March 22, 2009, at 2:52 pm
Credit for title goes to Joy. Seriously, this is getting old…
Keep in mind this is 1-2 days worth of uh, ‘effort’ – I cleaned it off at a gas station less than 48 hours before this.
Anyone have a good recipe for robin stew?
By Chris, on March 19, 2009, at 2:26 pm Last night was another fine night, dead asleep until Simon decided to start his nightly crap, and I spent several hours wide awake after chasing him through the house. While ineffective as a deterrent, storming after him with a squirt bottle is somewhat therapeutic at 2 AM… not so conducive to a restful night’s sleep, however.
As I lay there staring at the ceiling for hours, it occurred to me how it seems everyone just lost it when we moved here. Simon with his nightly yelling, Olive going round-the-bend crazy, the aggression issues between her and Winter… us with the insomnia. What is it about this place? I am trying not to be too hopeful that a change of environment will fix it but it sure would be nice if it did.
By the way, I never mentioned the outcome of the extra bad insomnia I had a few months back. I did try accupuncture (and some chinese herbs) and it really did help a lot. I had to stop after three treatments because my insurance didn’t cover it and it was just too expensive for us, but there really is something to that stuff. It at least helped break that cycle I’d gotten into where I wasn’t sleeping at all.
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