comments are a combination of literary, philosophical,and everyday mundane life. My sensibility is essentially of a person from India but my varied life has added layers and layers of universal experiences. Hobbies are gardening, cooking, people watching.
It is ambiguous, does it mean you cook for fastidious people or that you are a fastidious cook. I meant fastidious cooking, for a fastidious cook. None of your quick short cuts. i have acook book , written inlate 19th century for Indian housewives. It is fun to read, and many of the food items have disappeared from memory. But the cook book my mother wrote for me in 1964 contains many of the same recipes, but noone cooks or remembers them now. I am contemplating a cooking memoir.
Starting a veg garden No carrots, lettuce or any easy stuff. i am growing finicky vegetables, like what is called a bottle gourd, Indian bitter melon. Ichiban eggpalnt. Pumpkins, not the show variety but sweet and yellow. I started the cultivars indoors. Days of uncertainlty, whether the plants would come or not, and then taking them in and out of the cold. When they looked strong enough and the cold Wisconsin soil warmed up I carefully put them down and gave them a hefty jug of compost tea. WHile planting a tray fell from the bench and the plants got mixed up. Zuccini showed up with cucumbers,Indian style ninua, a long, slender version of zuccini in the middle of the beans. Innspite of great care and tending carefully many didn't survive. The ones which were left are merrily being eaten by Japanese beetles and squash bugs. Still I got a few zuccinis. SO the next step id =s to dust the recipe for my zuccini bread and turn the oven on. Recipe tomorrow.
It is ambiguous, does it mean you cook for fastidious people or that you are a fastidious cook.
ReplyDeleteI meant fastidious cooking, for a fastidious cook. None of your quick short cuts. i have acook book , written inlate 19th century for Indian housewives. It is fun to read, and many of the food items have disappeared from memory. But the cook book my mother wrote for me in 1964 contains many of the same recipes, but noone cooks or remembers them now. I am contemplating a cooking memoir.
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ReplyDeleteStarting a veg garden
ReplyDeleteNo carrots, lettuce or any easy stuff. i am growing finicky vegetables, like what is called a bottle gourd, Indian bitter melon. Ichiban eggpalnt. Pumpkins, not the show variety but sweet and yellow. I started the cultivars indoors. Days of uncertainlty, whether the plants would come or not, and then taking them in and out of the cold. When they looked strong enough and the cold Wisconsin soil warmed up I carefully put them down and gave them a hefty jug of compost tea. WHile planting a tray fell from the bench and the plants got mixed up. Zuccini showed up with cucumbers,Indian style ninua, a long, slender version of zuccini in the middle of the beans. Innspite of great care and tending carefully many didn't survive. The ones which were left are merrily being eaten by Japanese beetles and squash bugs. Still I got a few zuccinis. SO the next step id =s to dust the recipe for my zuccini bread and turn the oven on. Recipe tomorrow.