Fresh Lettuce & Staying Alive

Today, Bulldog Man and I cut lettuce from our garden to have as part of our dinner tonight.  This was our first harvest of lettuce from the garden.  We love fresh grown lettuce, (red romaine, Bibb, and Boston) and added it to our Mexican salads.  

Start with fresh made, green chile corn tortillas, slather on refried beans without fat, add ground beef with green chiles, fresh lettuce from the garden, fresh salsa, maybe some fresh cut tomatoes, graded mild cheddar cheese, and sliced black olives (which were not on BDM’s plate).

OMG….dinner was delicious……Bulldog Man rated it 4 paws!!!!

 

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I just want to share with you a little something from my demented mind bahahahahahahahaha…….. 

On Friday, I was driving into town when all of a sudden this black spider appeared on the windshield on the truck.  Now I’m going 45 MPH, and this spider is trying hard to continue to walk all over the windshield.  Now, talk about perfect timing; the radio station played “Staying Alive” as the spider tried hard to stay on the windshield.  Check it out!!!!!

Okay, I stopped the video so you wouldn’t see what I had done to this spider, because I really didn’t want to hear from people who hate those who kill spiders…….

Gotta love the turning on of the windshield wiper :-)

Celery

Celery. Over the last couple of months, I would buy celery, at the store, or farmers’ market.  When home, I would cut the entire bottom off, wash the celery stalks, and place them in the refrigerator, wrapped in a wet dish cloth. 

So what happens to the cut off end you ask??  I place the cut off end in a bowl with water and place the bowl on my window sill, to allow time for roots to grow.  I change the water in the bowl holding the celery end daily.  After a mass of roots form, I take each celery bottom and plant them in a pot or directly into the garden.  This is how I started my celery this year, instead of using seeds.

 

Leaving bottoms in water to create roots.

Planted in soil in a garden bed.

 

How do you grow your celery?

*****Winners Announced*****

The winner of the Canning & Preserving for Dummies Book is 1^st Man. 

The winner of the Food in Jars Preserving in Small Batches Year

Round is Buttons.

The winners have until Thursday, May 2nd; to respond to me with your mailing address.

If the winners do not respond by 11:59PM on May 2nd ; I will have no choice but to select another winner.

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