The Origins of life and leisure

Cotton before flower, with stem base (very sharp) and cotton with the seed still in it.
Fabric, in the begining.

Green Beans are flowers first.
Funny thought from beauty comes sustenance and health.

Woo Hoo A carrot!

With all this good food healthy teeth are growing .
"Look Mom another loose one".

I weeded...Now how do you say that single tense.

The Peas are sad.
I learned I should have soaked the seeds before planting.

My lettuce crop :)

I let the Ladies eat up the vines and melons.

It is a wonder a little water a lot of life.

Ladies in the morning sun.
Feed them...they will feed us.
That is the hope anyway.

Of late I have found myself fascinated with seeds.
This Honey Dew melon (a sweet tender fleshed fruit) Has the most amazing seed row.
I simply turned it over and was able to simply harvest the seed to plant.
I was thinking that these folks try so hard to make a melon that will make them money.
The life is in the seed. If I go buy seed at the store I will be paying them double.
Perhaps with this melon, using it's seeds,I may be able to reproduce it's quality.
Look at the seeds of the foods you eat they are so beautiful!

This is broccoli slaw. At the grocer , with a hankering for slaw...I thought to buy the ingredients and make it from scratch. Well I put the cabbage back when I saw the bags of organic broccoli slaw mix at a managers special for .99 apposed to $4.00a bag grabbing several bags I was able to make enough to add to the feast I took over to the Grand Parents on Sunday.
The dressing
Mao
rice vinegar
in the motor and pistil I added sea salt and celery seed.
Seed seed seed....
so beautiful!

I gave dash a long cooking lesson and made a feast together with him.
He finished of the dishes.

Boiling eggs 24 of them (the grocier had $5.00 dozon eggs for 2.29 on special.)
Heads up ...with range free eggs you can wait along time after date (up to two weeks) You see te eggs are much better to use for hard boiled eggs then. Eggs breath, the shell is porus with a membrain that protects the chick from air leaking out. When the egg is not furtile the air leaks out and so when they are a bit older egg the eggs do not crack when boiled for there is little air in them. So when you see eggs at date for reduced price buy a couple extra dozon and make egg salad and devel eggs.
Cool Trick!
place eggs in cool water and then boil for 10 minutes, emediatly remove into an ice water bath with BAKING SODA in it.
Now crack each end a little. Get under the membrain , now hold the egg in fist and blow a little . This removes the membrain and the egg will peel flawlessly.

Have you ever stoped and thought about the origins of the foods you eat?
A big part of the cooking lesson that I gave Dash was about this.
Now concider what was used to add to the main ingrediant can you figure it out?
Balance is key to food preperations. A balance of flavors, sweet,salty, spicy, bitter.
A balance of color is very important as is texture.

Dash discovered how to make mustard by investigatin.
Learn these things and you will know that the basic ingrediants to keep on hand will give you the power to make it for yourself with better core ingrediants and less expence.
Understanding is the begining of knowledge. Practicing that knowledge is the begining of wisom.
Think about it.
I gotta run Bible study and full day.
I am well I'll post more later just ran out of time.
I have been trying to get this post out all weekend.