Unutterably Silly I love food porn! so...what are you craving?

[Kindi]

I went to starbucks this morning and had a lovely hot chocolate and my husband had his carrot cake fix

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Yeah... That too! I guess it sets the heat and humidity to make the yeasties really happy. I used to use mine most often for making pizza dough, and as I like to make a double layer deep dish pizza, it really needs to have a crust that can rise correctly.


Stitchawl

my house tends to be far too cold to get the proper environment for rising.

Originally Posted by Kindi

I went to starbucks this morning and had a lovely hot chocolate and my husband had his carrot cake fix

mmmmm! carrot cake! I was thinking I would make banana bread... *looks for carrots to slaughter*

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

mmmmm! carrot cake! I was thinking I would make banana bread... *looks for carrots to slaughter*

Are you one of those people who can hear carrots shrieking when you pull them up? (Can you just imagine the sound of a large daikon? .)


Stitchawl

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Are you one of those people who can hear carrots shrieking when you pull them up? (Can you just imagine the sound of a large daikon? .)


Stitchawl

the daikons don't scream, they roar

[Stitchawl]

It's the end of the season now and the supermarkets are selling off the last of the new crop of daikons. HUGE monster daikon big around as my calf and long as my arm. $2-$3 each! Needless to say we are having a lot of daikon salad, daikon in soups, making daikon kimchee, etc.

Stitchawl

[Bilbo1967]

Went out last night with colleagues and had kangaroo, ostrich, wild boar and camel meat. They all tasted like beef to me!

Right now I am craving the black pudding with fried onions that I noticed on the menu of the pub next to my hotel, so I'll be going there.

[Exer]

Italian parmesan baguette, homegrown lettuce, colby jack cheese and grilled chicken drizzled with sun-dried tomato infused olive oil. Made this for lunch yesterday. Looked so good I took a picture before eating haha.

[kindlekitten]

I guess someone has a grow light! ;o)

[Exer]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

I guess someone has a grow light! ;o)

AeroGarden lol. I'm surprised how well that thing works. Fresh lettuce, herbs, etc all year round. Helps to do the indoor thing, since we have snow on the ground for so many months.

In the summer, outdoors, I grow raspberries, rhubarb, scallions, carrots, jalapeño, collard greens, various other bits and pieces. I usually try something different each year, to see if we have a long enough growing season to make it worth it. Tomatoes for example do real bad in Alaska, unless you start them about 6 weeks early indoors ... and my strawberry experiment last year was a miserable failure, should have started those indoors as well.

My lady always laughs when she sees me puttering around in my garden. She likes growing flowers, I like growing FOOD

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by Exer

AeroGarden lol. I'm surprised how well that thing works. Fresh lettuce, herbs, etc all year round. Helps to do the indoor thing, since we have snow on the ground for so many months.

Is it really big enough to keep you in fresh greens?

She likes growing flowers, I like growing FOOD

I'm with you! I prefer to have edible plants growing, although I do add some color here and there with flowers. 95% of the space is for food though!

Stitchawl

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Is it really big enough to keep you in fresh greens?



I'm with you! I prefer to have edible plants growing, although I do add some color here and there with flowers. 95% of the space is for food though!

Stitchawl

what he said! I've thought about those a lot but wonder if they are worth it?

[bjones6416]

Originally Posted by Exer

AeroGarden lol. I'm surprised how well that thing works. Fresh lettuce, herbs, etc all year round. Helps to do the indoor thing, since we have snow on the ground for so many months.

In the summer, outdoors, I grow raspberries, rhubarb, scallions, carrots, jalapeño, collard greens, various other bits and pieces. I usually try something different each year, to see if we have a long enough growing season to make it worth it. Tomatoes for example do real bad in Alaska, unless you start them about 6 weeks early indoors ... and my strawberry experiment last year was a miserable failure, should have started those indoors as well.

My lady always laughs when she sees me puttering around in my garden. She likes growing flowers, I like growing FOOD

I'm making an effort to eat as locally as possible, although I'm not fanatic about it. I just finished reading "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" by Barbara Kingsolver, and she mentions in there that there is quite a movement in Alaska to eat locally even with such short growing seasons. I applaud your efforts! I had fresh lettuce this past week, too, from my local CSA. It was so good!

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by bjones6416

I'm making an effort to eat as locally as possible, although I'm not fanatic about it. I just finished reading "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" by Barbara Kingsolver, and she mentions in there that there is quite a movement in Alaska to eat locally even with such short growing seasons. I applaud your efforts! I had fresh lettuce this past week, too, from my local CSA. It was so good!

I ADORE! that book! it has become my new bible! it is the only book that I have purchased in p form, several copies actually, as I loan it quite often

[Exer]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Is it really big enough to keep you in fresh greens?

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

what he said! I've thought about those a lot but wonder if they are worth it?

Depends on your expectations. If you are wanting to have fresh salad for you and your family nightly, then no. At least not with a single machine. If you want to always have fresh herbs on hand for use in cooking, or a handful of greens to toss in a dinner salad, sandwich, then yes.



This is about 2 months of growth on 4 "pods" (there is room for 7 pods total, in the 'classic' AeroGarden) of lettuce seeds. These particular plants have already been harvested twice. You can cut them down and in two weeks they'll be about this high again, or you can clip a handful whenever you need them, and the more mature leaves will get even larger.

A growing "season" for most of the greens seems to be about 4 months, so you could imagine with a couple of these in rotation growing different mixes -- and they sell dozens and dozens of seed mixes -- you could have a pretty great system going. Of course you could do your own hydroponics or soil growing indoors for a LOT cheaper, but these gardens are just so simple.

Depending on your tastes you can grow whatever mix you think you'll get the most use out of: Salad Greens, Mesclun, Romaine, Arugula, and Baby Greens. Too many things to list lol. You can also buy ready to use blank pods, to put in whatever type of seeds you want, including flowers.

They have a "mini" garden with just 3 pods, I've bought those as gifts for friends with children. It is a kind of cool way to introduce kids to gardening and get them excited about eating something they've grown on their own.

Bottom line, I guess going to the grocery store is going to be cheaper and easier, no doubt -- but if you already like gardening or growing things, these are fun. And at least you know how fresh and clean the greenery is, so no worry about pesticides, etc.

[Exer]

Originally Posted by bjones6416

I'm making an effort to eat as locally as possible, although I'm not fanatic about it. I just finished reading "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" by Barbara Kingsolver, and she mentions in there that there is quite a movement in Alaska to eat locally even with such short growing seasons. I applaud your efforts! I had fresh lettuce this past week, too, from my local CSA. It was so good!

Some people here are quite hardcore about it lol. We got folks who walk around in these brightly colored shirts/hats/hoodies that say "Alaska Grown" on them. You tend to look for that logo on food in the grocery store while shopping, just to know you are supporting your local economy, as well as knowing how fresh the food is.

The farmers markets in the summer here are just unbelievable. Alaska is such an odd place to grow things, our summers are almost pure sunshine, 19 hours of sunlight by the middle of June, so while we have a short summer we sure pack in as much grow-time as we can