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Apr. 18th, 2006 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickI did not make meatloaf. I was unable to remember the things I needed at the grocery store long enough to buy meatloaf ingredients. *sigh* I must be getting old. I did buy broccoli and more butter and onions, so all is not lost. I also got some bananas on spec. It has been a long time since I had any bananas in the house. Oh, and canned tomatoes. Yay! (And I know for sure that you're all there going What the hell is so great about canned tomatoes? I do not know, precisely, except that I come up with better things to cook when I have canned tomatoes in the house. Even if they're not an active ingredient, they appear to be some kind of cooking catalyst.)
Instead of meatloaf, I made spaghetti (Not the fancy colorful twistinis of imported pasta goodness. Regular whole-wheat spaghetti.) which I ate with sauce that had mushrooms (real) and ground beef (also real) and Classico tomato and basil sauce. I like their tomato sauce as well as anyone's and I am not too proud to doctor bought spaghetti sauce with my own ingredients. I did not put any expensive parmesan on top because I'd served myself an embarassingly large portion already and I didn't figure that it also needed cheese.
The strawberry plants, which looked like absolute shit when I put them in the ground, have made very promising small green leaves. It is at this juncture that new plantings most frequently get eaten off. I am trying not to let my hopes get out of hand. Also, I got a note from the plant people that the raspberries have shipped. With any luck, they will be here by the weekend. While I have a social engagement for Sunday, my Saturday is, as yet, unscheduled and I am planning, weather permitting, to mulch the peonies and roses. I will probably also wind up mulching the strawberries. The "mulch" is free, at least partially because I already paid for it once before it was "mulch". It started out as horse feed, see... I know that it sounds strange, but four to six inches of "mulch" will keep the weeds down with a startling amount of efficacy and it rots down in a year to not be very thick so you can have another go the following year without having a garden two feet higher than you started with in four years. Also, I do not have neighbors who might complain... suburban gardeners who have neighbors should not go this route without taking the neighbors into consideration.
Instead of meatloaf, I made spaghetti (Not the fancy colorful twistinis of imported pasta goodness. Regular whole-wheat spaghetti.) which I ate with sauce that had mushrooms (real) and ground beef (also real) and Classico tomato and basil sauce. I like their tomato sauce as well as anyone's and I am not too proud to doctor bought spaghetti sauce with my own ingredients. I did not put any expensive parmesan on top because I'd served myself an embarassingly large portion already and I didn't figure that it also needed cheese.
The strawberry plants, which looked like absolute shit when I put them in the ground, have made very promising small green leaves. It is at this juncture that new plantings most frequently get eaten off. I am trying not to let my hopes get out of hand. Also, I got a note from the plant people that the raspberries have shipped. With any luck, they will be here by the weekend. While I have a social engagement for Sunday, my Saturday is, as yet, unscheduled and I am planning, weather permitting, to mulch the peonies and roses. I will probably also wind up mulching the strawberries. The "mulch" is free, at least partially because I already paid for it once before it was "mulch". It started out as horse feed, see... I know that it sounds strange, but four to six inches of "mulch" will keep the weeds down with a startling amount of efficacy and it rots down in a year to not be very thick so you can have another go the following year without having a garden two feet higher than you started with in four years. Also, I do not have neighbors who might complain... suburban gardeners who have neighbors should not go this route without taking the neighbors into consideration.
