Old Victory Garden Now on Cable

I just came across the old Victory Garden programs on cable RL TV. What a nice treat!

Tuesday's With Dorie: Baking With Julia-Gingerbread Baby Cakes

One of the December recipes for TWDBWJ is Gingerbread Baby Cakes. The host is Karen of Karen’s Kitchen Stories. So visit her site for the recipe.

It is chock full of molasses and ginger.Although the recipe called for 2 cups of molasses, I only had 1 and 1/2 cups in the house. So I made up the difference with a 1/2 cup of real maple syrup.  Not sure if I would make this again. It is a very dense cake and almost too overpowering in taste.

Lemon Curd from Meyer Lemons

I just finished making lemon curd from my meyer lemons. I used a recipe from Gourmet magazine  that called for 3-4 meyer lemons that would make 1/2 cup of juice. In my case, 4 lemons made a cup of juice. So I doubled the recipe, and plan to freeze leftover curd. It took about 30 minutes for the lemon curd to come up to 160 degrees. So the 5 minutes the recipe states for whisking the curd to 160 degrees is a bit optimistic.  So be patient. It tastes delicious, and my husband loves it.

So now I need to figure out what to do with the last 5 meyer lemons I have left on my tree.

Flower Boxes

I just finished decorating our flower boxes with greenery from White Flower Farm. As soon as I have a chance I will post photos. On Sunday I plan to weave white lights through the greenery.

The photo above is from the White Flower Farm catalog. Pretty nice!

Tulips and Lettuce and Early Christmas Gift

I was able to plant about  75 tulip bulbs , harvest some lovely lettuce and to to take a look at my early Christmas gift. The gift from my husband is an Eastern Redbud tree. Our old Redbud was taken down. It was dying, but I so wanted another one. So that is what I got.

Trees are a great gift.

Tuesdays With Dorie-Baking With Julia:Buttermilk Crumb Muffins.

Alisa of Easier Than Pie will host the Buttermilk Crumb Muffins recipe for November 6th. So visit her site for the recipe.

These muffins were very easy to make. I did switch out the shortening for butter and I would suggest using paper muffin liners. It would make it much easier to remove the muffins from the pan. Overall, I would say that these muffins were average. They did not seem to have enough cinnamon.

Now would I make these again? Only if someone asked me to.

Meyer Lemon Harvest

I just harvested my first Meyer Lemon. I have 10 left on my 3 foot tree that are still turning yellow, and I would like help with what I should do with all of these lemons. The challenge will be that most of the lemons will be ready to harvest at one time. What do I do with 10 lemons???? Help.

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