Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts

30 May, 2010

How to pick a strawberry

29 October, 2008

Chile Time

Stringing Chiles

We had our first freeze in the Chicagoland area yesterday, so I brought in the last of the peppers. I'll hang these somewhere to dry. For the last month I have been real busy with school and travelling, I did manage to make some Italian style chicken sausage yesterday, but no time for blogging. Jolie is off to Paris today to embark on her Baking and Pastry odyssey, she has promised to send postcards.

Jolie as French farm wife

A couple of weeks ago we were in Columbus where we smoked trout and made Ethiopian Food. We got enjerea from a bakery on the east side. Check out the pictures on flickr

Smoked trout

Cheers.

21 April, 2007

Southland Potager


We had a really nice experience:

Ted's Greenhouse
16930 S. 84th Ave
Tinley Park, IL 60487
708-532-3575







Rows upon rows of Basil. Do you have your potager du saucisson (sausage garden) planned yet? Since it is still too early to plant, we just walked around and saw some interesting things:


A Ficus from the fifties.

He shows us a Buddha's Hand.



He shows the boys a carnivorous plant.

I bought a sweet bay tree and he convinced me that I needed a Meyer lemon and a Kaffir lime. I'll be back soon. This month will mark three years since we have moved to the Southland. We are slowly discovering the great places it has to offer.

Cheers.