Broccoli and Poulsbo

Last night, as part of our dinner, we enjoyed some fresh broccoli from the garden. It was tasty as only garden-fresh can be and there is plenty more still growing. This little bit you see at the right is just one part of last night's harvest. We ate a lot of the plant's leaves as well.

I usually cook broccoli in the microwave. I cut it up in to bite-sized pieces and sprinkle it with garlic powder and a dash of garlic salt. Then I splash a little bit of olive oil on it and follow the olive oil with a little bit of water. I make sure to run the tap right on top of the splash of olive oil so the oil is scattered and (mostly) ends up in the water at the bottom of the casserole dish.

Then, I put the cover on the dish and microwave the broccoli. This way the water boils and diffuses the olive oil throughout the food. The flavor combination is spectacular!



Today, we drove down to Poulsbo. There's a Home Depot there and I wanted to get some clay pots for the greenhouse. I have a lot of plants going now, and I've used up nearly all of my clay pots and am making do with some reclaimed pots from shrubs we've purchased at the nursery. Hard to tell if these are "food grade" pots or not. The terra cotta pots are good quality and US made, so I'm hoping there's been some appropriate health regulations followed...

In addition to everything else I've got going, I now have three eggplant bushes in the greenhouse.  These were in the garden, but something had been eating them. Also it's also not quite warm enough here for eggplants to flourish. I think these guys will recover. We'll see.

Oh, and my prize poblano chili plant is now over a foot tall!