At 7 weeks after directing sowing on April 15th, the cilantro is ready to eat.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
First June strawberries
The first strawberries are in, and they are sweet and lucious and smallish. Mmmmm.
Don't let those fools at the grocery store sell you on that nauseatingly sweet spongey yellow cake and instant whipped cream. Real short cake is more like a biscuit, sweet and a little bit tender, and it's super easy to make.
Strawberry Shortcake Recipe:
2 cups flour
1 Tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
4 Tbsp. sugar
1 stick cold butter in 8 pieces
2/3 cup half and half
In food processor combine w/ several pulses:
2 cups flour
1 Tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
4 Tbsp. sugar
Add butter and pulse several times
Transfer mixture to bowl and add enough half and half to make dough moist
Transfer to counter and knead 3-4 times.
Flatten dough to 3/4 inch thickness and cut with bisquit cutter or drinking glass.
Bake 10-15 minutes at 425
Serve with fresh, halved and hulled strawberries and cream whipped with bourbon and honey. (The secret to great whipped cream is having the bowl, the beaters and the cream really cold.)
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Corn has sprouted!
The second time was a charm! The corn from the second sowing sprouted like clockwork 2 weeks later. The trick this time was keeping the soil very moist and keeping the bed covered so the birds couldn't eat the corn. This is Silver Queen corn - a silvery white sweet corn. I spent my childhood summers on the Maryland shore, and the road to get there wound through the farm country of the eastern shore of the Chesapeake bay. Farm stands dotted the route where you could buy peaches, watermelons, tomatoes and the unbelievably delicious Silver Queen corn.
Not sure if this southern transplant will succeed in Massachusetts. We tried it last year and, while it grew well, the corn itself was tough and inedible.
Once the corn is an inch or two taller, I will add bean seeds around the base of each stalk.
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