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'My good friends at Monsanto'

Crider — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:42:01 GMT

Friday, Friday, rabbit pie day

Crider — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:28:16 GMT

Too funny!

No problem!

JayinPortland — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:40:46 GMT

I remember long days. I wish I had more of them at the moment...

Oops

JoanneRigutto — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:32:06 GMT

Forgot about that. Been a long day...

Yes...

JayinPortland — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:08:33 GMT

That's why I said above that I'm going to try soon.

;)

You can make your own

JoanneRigutto — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:38:47 GMT

either with a food processor or a mortar and pestle. This recipe says that you should use olive oil but not extra virgin because it's too strongly flavored.

Bob's Redmill has natural brown sesame seeds for $4.69/lb.

I was reading them! :)

JayinPortland — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:26:31 GMT

The problem with tahini in jars / bottles is it's so expensive. At least around here and in my stores. Yikes.

Oil...

JayinPortland — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:22:20 GMT

I wonder how this corresponds with a map of which nations have oil.

Sure seems to be a bit of a correlation there. Angola and Nigeria are the two sub-Saharan OPEC nations; Sudan, Gabon, South Africa and Chad are the other top producers on the continent. Angola's an interesting case. I seem to recall that it recently overtook Nigeria as the #1 producer in Sub-Saharan Africa, and according to the map its per-capita income is higher than Nigeria and Kenya, yet it's an LDC. A brief bit of web research seems to indicate it's corruption and recovery from their Civil War that may be the culprit. Sad.

Real black russian bread

la motocycliste — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:51:54 GMT

The kind with a crust that you need a saw to get through and an almost cakelike interior has raisins, too.

How do you make that stuff?

It'll be an interesting experiment

JoanneRigutto — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:05:23 GMT

I know it's possible because I hear about early tomatoes at the farmers markets around Portland, so someone's doing it. They've got to be greenhouse grown, and that's what the tunnels are. By the time they get big enough that I'll have to pull the plastic it'll be time to do that anyway. I usually pull all the plastic and put in in storage in May.

One other thing this will let me do is to take cuttings from the plants. That way I can get a couple month jump on sale plants and I can transplant rooted cuttings out here too.

And, like I say, I've got plenty of seed, so if they don't make it, I won't be short and I won't be behind shcedule because I usually don't start tomato seed until the first week of March anyway.

I've made Tahini

LeeN — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:05:28 GMT

but finally settles on the Kronos brand tahini And its in a JAR.

I buy chick peas from the food coop and regular supermarket
Goya. I think the Goya's are fresher.

I haven't posted recipes in a few weeks cause I didn't think anyone was reading them :) I purchased Bob Redmill Garbanzo and Fava flour and made Socca. I liked it but it doesn't taste all that different from Chick pea flour which is cheaper.

Sounds interesting. Let me know

caseyOR — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:12:08 GMT

how it goes, okay? Early tomatoes would be nice.

Yup

JoanneRigutto — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:17:11 GMT

I went over to Wunderground and checked the records for last February. Warm false spring, then got doused with rain for most of March which is what will probably happen this year too.

I remember last Feb when we had the false spring, the ground dried out enough that I was able to till the east barn garden and get the new tunnels up in there. Got them built, planted and covered. Then I spend all of March and April slogging through 6" of mud in the foot paths. I should have just tilled the planting beds for the tunnels instead of the whole garden.

Now I just dig around in the planting beds and I leave the footpaths alone...

Yeah...

JayinPortland — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:09:41 GMT

...we're having like San Diego weather for the next couple weeks, eh? I am not complaining!

Be sure to keep us updated.

Those sound good!

JoanneRigutto — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:28:09 GMT

I love tahini. I love anything with sesame. Maybe one of these days I'll get around to planting the black sesame seed I bought a couple years ago. And that rice seed, and the Chuffa, and, and, and,...
;-)