Monthly Archives: October 2012

Temperatures have been in the 40s the past few mornings. This makes it very difficult to get out of bed except to run downstairs and let Gus out just long enough to do his business.

By noon, it’s warmed up to the 60s so I took the opportunity to clean out the vegetable beds and seed them with arugula or rocket.

Arugula is a cool season green with a spicy bite! What I don’t eat will be dug in as a green manure.

The first step is to rake the beds from all four sides. I rake the top couple inches loose and pull the soil toward the side I am working from. I do this from all four sides.

I then removed any large roots and stems. There were also two maple seedlings so they were potted up and moved to the nursery.

The soil was raked level. In the Spring I will add fresh compost and leaf mulch to improve the soil’s drainage and nutrients. I am lucky that the previous owner of the house for 40 years was a gardener and had really improved the clay soil.

I then seeded the beds heavily with the arugula.

There were a few green tomatoes and jalapeños to harvest. All the plant material went to the compost pile.

I don’t usually like perfumy soaps but I am on my last bar of Nekkid Girl lavender soap and I love it. It smells so good! I purchased about 5 bars of different botanical soaps from Miranda and I have enjoyed them all.

Ahhhh! Now off to Cup-A-Joe for an iced mocha double latte!

So I was looking around the kitchen for dinner and saw a few leftovers that I could pull together into something.

Curry Rice

1) I started off heating olive oil on medium heat. Once is shimmers, I add half of an onion that was in the refrigerator. Add salt and pepper to season.

2) After the onions have softened, add the rice and stir until the oil is absorbed. About 5 minutes.

3) Once the oil has been absorbed, add enough broth to cover the rice. Stir to incorporate.

4) Cook until absorbed and stir often. I added a tablespoon each of curry powder and turmeric. I like things spicy!

5) After the broth has been absorbed add more to cover the rice, stir to incorporate and then cover the pan and turn to low.

6) Once the broth has been absorbed its ready. You can add meat or broccoli and cauliflower, if you wish.

And if I had a piece of naan bread it would be perfect but I am in for the night!

Enjoy!