I am so looking forward to getting some fresh LOCAL produce from the area and creating some fantastic food and memories. I have already had the chance last week to chow down on some fantastic morels that my sous chef brought in for me to have. I was so excited. He had said that he was able to pick quit a few morels and that evening he had grilled pizza with morels and made his son, who you can count his age on one hand a morel omelet for breakfast. What a spoiled brat, lol. We both commented that we never had such a gourmet meal like that at such a young age.
I brought my morels home that night, but not before stopping at Whole Foods and picking up 2 NY Strip steaks to grill. I made a very simple sauce with the morels, i did not want to hide the delicate and earthy flavor of these once a year treasures. The steak and morels paired well with a earthy wine like a pinot noir, a meal that will stay in my head till next years harvest, and then i hope to find some of my own.
This year my garden is all organic, i have maintained a very nice patch of land if you will, actually just the other day i put on 50# of organic manure, 40#mushroom compost and 40#organic peat. You see here in the Midwest most of the soil is clay, which is great its already very fertile but clay compacts with rain and makes it very hard for roots to get deep into the soil and have good structure for tall plants, for example a tomato plant. So with that being said adding some organic ingredients like whats list above and some grass clippings i am in good shape to start planting.
What am i planting you ask, well i myself do not know, all i know is that it will be organic and mostly heirloom items, i actually found a great selection at the Jewel-Osco near work that i am going to get some of my plants from. My next post i will have more about the garden and what i have selected.
I like to think of myself as having a green thumb, thanks to my grandmother who really got me started. I also am going "green" not only in the house, but also in the back yard, i have started a compost in a 5 gallon bucket that i got from work and i place all of my food scraps in this bucket, except items like meat and bones. In about 2-3 weeks of tending to this compost bucket i should have some good, organic compost to feed my garden.
It would be nice to see others get into going green, not only in gardening(which by the is up drastically from a year ago.) Which is not surprise in these hard times its cheaper to grow your own food and more satisfying. I feel that growing your own produce you tend to value it more and not want to waste any of it either so you come up with creative dishes to use up every bit of it.
With that being said i hope all of you that read my blog have a very successful growing season and would also be curious to see what you have planted as well, so please feel free to comment on this post.
Life's a Garden Dig It-Joe Dirt
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