Box o' Yum

I finally decided to try a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program out. I found Tanaka Farms which is nearby in Irvine. I was always deterred by CSAs because of their prices and large amount of produce. Luckily, Tanaka Farms allows biweekly subscriptions for $20/small box. This works out perfectly for me since I won't get over inundated with produce I can't finish before it spoils.

This week, I got strawberries, two grapefruit, some spring onion thingys, carrots, bok choy, spring peas and lettuce. A pretty decent haul. The peas make me the happiest. Yay, peas (: and I've been wanting to make carrot cake :D

Flowers

Happy early Mother's Day.



These were for my grandma. We visited her last weekend.

I'm Glad Thyme Isn't My Kid

Remember that beautiful, bushy, full pot of English thyme I posted a few weeks ago?



Yeaaaa.. All of it was dead on Sunday. I started watering and pruning out dead stuff (well, it all looked dead). A few new green sprigs have popped up. I'm hoping these new sprigs continue to grow because I pulled most of the deadish roots out. I started with 50ish live sprigs of thyme, and now I have 3ish new ones. I'm monitoring watering it better to keep the soil damp until more roots appear. I fret about my herbs, a lot. I think it's giving me wrinkles.

Very, Very, Very Light Green Thumb

The rosemary plant is looking greener and less like a dying Christmas tree now, yay!

I've been monitoring watering it more, even though I know rosemary likes dried out soil. So they say. I think I went overboard with the dried out soil thing because it was dying.

If only my thyme was doing better.. ):

Oat-y

I like healthyish muffins and I like oatmeal, so I made the oatmeal muffin recipe from the King Arthur Flour Cookbook. It required me to soak the oats overnight in buttermilk. I don't like buttermilk, but I use it in baking a fair amount. The texture of these muffins was sort of weird. I'll leave it at that. They were tasty. But sort of spongy. Spongy is.. weird. I guess I didn't just leave it at that. Oops.

Smoggish

A rare, clear day in Los Angeles County. I took this from Rose Hills Cemetery, about thirty miles south of Downtown LA. Sad that this is considered a "clear day" but I'll take what I can get. You can see the mountains behind the city. Sometimes you can't even see the mountains behind the city when you're in the city. That's gross. ): We breathe that air. Ew. ):

Corn!

I love kettle corn. Ridiculous amounts of love. But I don't frequent fairs or farmers markets or anything that have it. So now that I know how to make it at home... I am picturing lots and lots of kettle corn in my future. Except, in my mind, the kettle corn in the future isn't burnt like the kettle corn pictured above. For once, using a nice Le Creuset pot is probably a BAD thing.