Tag: garden

In the garden 🌱While I am still harvesting and replanting my turmeric, cutting down bananas, I started cleaning one of my favorite herb garden which not only growing herbs but also have bananas, pomegranate tree,lemongrass avocados and mango from seeds, one corner Chinese wisteria which I trimmed it down, bananas cut down, replanted few turmeric in one corner, had tulsi , harvested seeds and pulled them down, some chives still good enough for my soup. Now my herb garden bed looks pretty clean ready to plant winter crops if I want, this we talking about just one garden bed , many more to do, feel accomplished and happy that I did something good for my garden in return, appreciate all the food nature provides year around.Have a happy gardening.Celebrate the season 🍁

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Sautéed romaine lettuce 🍃🍋🌶

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imageimageimageSautéed romaine lettuce🍃
As warm weather approaching, need to make a room for summer vegetables, right now garden is full of all kind spring greens. Beets, garlic, onions,spinach, mustards,radishes and lots of lettuce, not to mention some cabbage and cauliflower growing form kitchen waste.
Mainly trying to use up the romaine lettuce, looking for a way to eat it 🙂
You can use many ways.
I make lettuce soup. It’s very refreshing in summer time, use a lot in Mexican food we love 🙂 and of course in good old American sandwiches 🙂
Thinking to find a way to use romaine lettuce, since I like sautéed cabbage, decide to make sautéed romaine lettuce.
Surprisingly tasted delicious 🙂
So quick and so easy
Ingredients🍃
One romaine lettuce, fresh from garden, wash , clean and separated all leaves.
One clove clove of garlic crushed. I used green garlic leaves instead since I am trying to use some greens 🙂 tastes as good.
Tablespoon of olive oil
Salt to taste
Red chili powder to your taste or just pinch of it🌶
Fresh lemon one small piece🍋
Tablespoon full of honey🍯
Let sauté romaine🍃
On a medium heat, place sauce pan
Add olive oil
Once it’s moving around in pan
Add crushed garlic
Sauté just for a second
Add lettuce leaves
Add salt to taste
Add red chili powder to your taste
Flip one time
Let it sauté both side
It cooks in a minute, that’s a best part you don’t have to wait to long to eat it 🙂
Serve it hot
Drizzle spoonful honey over it
Squeeze fresh lemon on top
Enjoy this hot and delicious sautéed romaine while it’s hot.
Hope you like this recipe:)
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Have a wonderful day friends ❤️

In the garden lettuce flowers started seeding 

Good morning friends. Have a pleasant day☕️I was thinking about the article I read yesterday about how to stop bolting the plants so they keep producing more food for a while, great idea.however the way I think, we should let the few plants bolts to seeds to save seeds.

Saving seeds are equally important I should say more important.

Not only you will have your own seeds, you also have a chance to learn more about the plants, which you would have been missed otherwise.

not to mention that brings you immense pleasure by watching them grow every stage of their life 🙂

Give them a chance to enjoy their life to fullest 🙂

Lettuce flowers seeding one at a time❤️

Tips and tricks on how to regrow vegetables 🥬

  1. imageimageimageimageimageimageWhile eating healthy is vital to our health, fruits and vegetables are necessary to maintain healthy lifestyle but fruits and vegetables are getting expensive. It’s good idea to grow your own or regrow some of the vegetables we already bought .
    There are vegetables you can regrow again and again from kitchen scrap or waste we usually throw away.

here are some vegetables and herbs you can regrow again.

Cabbages.
Cut the bottom part of the cabbage, keep it in a cup or bowl, add some water, plant it out in the garden when ever you get a chance new leaves will appear in few days.
Couliflower.
Cut the bottom part, place it in a glass of water until you ready to plant in a soil or you can plant it straight in the garden.

broccoli.

you can plant the same way . Cut the bottom part and plant it in the soil.
Carrots.
Before you use carrots, cut off the bottom part, set them in a glass of water, Let them grow a new sets of leaves then transplant outside in the garden you will get a nice greens.
Scallions or green onions.
Cut the root part, place them in a bowl or glass of water,  keep them in a water until it grows a little bit then transplant them in the garden. You can plant straight in a garden too within couple of days you will see new sets of leaves.
Romaine lettuce.
Cut the top leaves, use the bottom part to grow in a cup or glass jar . Add some water let it grow until new leaves shows up than plant it in a garden.
Cilantro.
Cut the bottom part with the roots,  keep the stems in water until new leaves grows then plant it outside in the garden.
Garlic.
Some times we see garlic sprouting, instead of throwing it away plant them straight in a soil in a pot or in a garden.
Same way you can regrow sprouted onions to get green onions.
Same way you can try to regrow piece of ginger or bottom of pineapple too, if it doesn’t grow pineapple, it will definitely give you nice tropical plant.
Instead of throwing away our kitchen scraps, if we try to regrow , we can have a readily available free vegetables and herbs right in our kitchen garden and save us some money too.
Here are cabbage, broccoli, green onions, garlic greens, romaine lettuce and some other greens I harvested from garden.

hope you like this idea of regrowing vegetables.

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Note: recipes for how to cook all kinds of greens are already posted, feel free to check it out.

 

Tips and tricks on how to make peppers flakes 🌶

Peppers flakes from garden to kitchen table.

Pepper flakes made from organically grown peppers this summer in garden. It includes verity of peppers🌶.

Cayennes, habanero, Thai hot peppers, Tabasco, Anaheim and banana peppers.

All peppers sun dried few at a time as it ripped. You can use dehydrator or dry in oven using low temperature , however I prefer sun drying method to dry most my vegetables except herbs like tulsi and peppermint I dry I cool shaded place.

I also dry my turmerics in sun to make turmeric powder.

Once all peppers fully dried, it’s very easy to make pepper flakes or powder.I used my good old food processor to make flakes, some people dry their peppers in oven and crushed by hands, I avoided both by not oven drying and crushing by hand, it’s too risky to use hands , this peppers are extremely hot , you don’t want to take any risk by touching them . It’s way too hot, even you don’t use hand , you still want to use kitchen gloves all the time until you finish whole process and clean all utensils you used including kitchen counter top to be safe than sorry 🙂

Hope you like the method I used to make hot peppers flakes

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Seeds of ridge gourds

I was checking my seeds collection this morning to see what I have and what needs to get for summer time, and to my surprise I saw two dried ridge gourds , I didn’t bother to open it when it dried so I cut it open this morning to see if there is any good seeds in it or what and surprisingly this is what I got 🙂 so happy to see bunch of good looking seeds 🙂
Hopefully will grow good looking ridge gourd this summer too.

Hope you enjoy my garden 🙂

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Tips on how to make turmeric powders from garden fresh turmeric🌱 

My favorite time of the year autumn🍁time to harvest, season to celebrate to appreciate and show our gratitude towards nature.🍃
Turmeric is always a last thing to harvest in the garden. It takes almost month of November from start to finish.
I already harvested some earlier and made pickles.

I harvested  some more to dry and make powder to use in every day cooking.

How to dry turmeric:

First , need to wash good few times , peeled the skins, wash one more time to make sure no dirt remain in it.

After washing and peeling, towel dry so no water remains 

Some people boils the turmeric, than sun dries, I don’t like to boil, it’s not necessary as it will loose some nutrition from the turmeric roots, plus it will boil and cook when you use in cooking, 

So no need to boil or cook twice, doesn’t make sense in my opinion.

Ok now slice all the turmeric, small pieces is better so will dry faster.

Spread all the turmeric in trays with clothes or paper towels in sunny spots 

I dried mine in my front porch 

Turn it upside down everyday, until it dries completely.

In summertime , or after summer depending on your climate,turmeric  should be completely dried  and ready to process to make powder.

It took three days to dry completely, thanks to Georgia weather, extremely hot here in south.

How to make turmeric powder
You can make powder two ways

Using coffee grinder

Using blender

 1 : using coffee grinder

coffee grinder is easiest way to make power

it works perfectly grinds so quickly, try few at a time.

if you want fine powder, use sifter couple of times

Your turmeric power should be ready to use.

2 : how to make turmeric power using blender

You can also use blender, in that recipe

You wash, clean and towel dry turmeric, make small pieces and grind few at a time at a time

that will give tiny pieces of turmerics, which you put it out in sun to dry again

When that dries,

you grind again that should give you powder like consistency, leave it out on counter, in case any moisture remains in it

Next day or whenever you have time, you grind one more time,you will get your turmeric power ready to sieve to get fine power of turmeric.

You have your home made turmeric powder ready to use in cooking, smoothies, tea,turmeric milk or just add in your favorite juice.

Nothing like garden fresh dried turmeric. 🌱

Whole kitchen is full of pure turmeric smell, color also very vibrant than commercial store bought package turmeric powder,.

since it’s pure and highly concentrated in flavor and nutrition you only need pinch or two in cooking.🌱
Happy and excited to see the finished product 🙂

I still can’t believe I made my own turmeric powder 🙂
Just amazed, excited and happily content with the finished product,.

do appreciate the gift of nature🌱

Hope you like the two method I used to make powder.

You can also freeze your turmerics 

For more about turmerics

How to freeze 

How to use

Recipes for turmeric pickles

Turmeric tea

Turmeric milk

And more alread  posted here on this website if interested 

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