The Accidental Boilermaker

From the garden... to the plate.

We had oven roasted purple asparagus last night, but after it had been in the oven it lost its purple color and turned back to green. But they were yummy.

Our friends from Purdue got married yesterday. It was a beautiful ceremony. the happy couple t he get-away car yummy cake

Frost - the enemy of green pepper plants everywhere. We had a frost advisory last night so we covered up some of our more delicate plants with old t-shirts supported by a little tee pee of sticks. Tonight we did the same even though our county isn't supposed to get frost but the dew point could drop below 32 (even though the air temp probably won't). It's better to be safe than sorry.

I used up the rest of our rhubarb this week. I made another pie, this one with a crumble topping, for our intern's last day. I blind baked the bottom crust to keep it from getting soggy and it worked pretty well. I also made rhubarb bread. I put more in rhubarb than what the recipe called for so it was super gooey, but still good. Yesterday my grandparents came over to help us get our garden started. We got just about everything planted - brussel sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, lettuce, radishes, zucchini, yellow squash, eggplant, pepper, greens beans, and snow peas. It might frost tomorrow night, so we're gearing up to protect our plants.

We got a new car! A 2009 Toyota Corolla. We also got a whole bunch of rhubarb from one of the psych secretaries. I made a pie this evening, but we still have a lot of rhubarb left.