I picked all the storm damaged daffodils and jonquils on Saturday. The tall yellow one is heavily scented.
I decided to try to make some avocado flatbread for breakfast. Here’s the recipe:
Avocado Cheese Flatbread
1 avocado
1 egg, beaten
1 cup grated cheese
Preheat oven to 400F.
Mash the whole avocado and mix in the egg and cheese really well. Spread 2 6” diameter flat circles on a parchment paper lined baking sheet.
Bake for 20 – 25 minutes until golden brown.
While they were baking I decided to try making a ¼ recipe of granola to see if I liked it. It had:
Cashews
Slivered almonds
Coconut flakes
Chia seeds
Vanilla
Salt
Flax meal
Coconut oil
You soak the flax meal (which I had to grind with a mortar and pestle) with warm water and then add the coconut oil and mix well. Then dump in the rest and set to bake at 400F until golden brown.
The flatbreads finished and I put greens and dressing on them and ate them like a taco. The granola took twice as long to even start browning as the recipe said. It never reached golden, just slightly browned.
They both were very good. The granola is savory vs sweet so I think it will be fine.
Then I tried to make Crispy Cheddar Broccoli Fries for lunch. No photo because they didn’t turn out as they were supposed to. The recipe:
Crispy Cheddar Broccoli Fries
1 lg. head broccoli
½ cup Parmesan cheese, grated
1 cup Cheddar cheese, grated
2 lg eggs, beaten
Seasonings
Preheat oven to 400F.
Steam broccoli and chop up well. Add parmesan and cheddar cheese and eggs and your choice of seasonings. Shape into fries and put on parchment paper on cookie sheet. Bake for 20 minutes until golden brown.
They tasted fine and half went into the freezer. By this time I was pretty wiped from standing and the kitchen was a disaster. So I laid on the couch to rest and dozed through Life of Mammals for a couple hours.
I decided to check and see what seedlings were up. In the dining room all but 2 trays got their covers off.
All the beets were up on the north porch.
Two trays still had covers on the south side of the porch.
In the office, nothing was up except Sweet William so I had to wash a tray for them so I could take the cover off.
Then I walked to the barn and got the truck for doing tarps on Monday. I turned the water on for outside and got a hose out and put it in the sun to thaw out.
I had walked around the house getting photos on the way up to the barn.
In the New North garden the scillas are up.
West garden: coltsfoot, lingularia
In the South garden, the grape hyacinths are blooming.
Rugosa rose leafing out
Big garden – garlic doing well
I tried to get photos of several of the Little Trees II but the camera would not focus at all. This was the best of them, the peach tree.
Just a shot of the barn with the bright blue sky as I walked up the driveway.
On Monday I have one of my son’s friends coming to help me get the tarps off the Small garden, pressure washed and hung to dry. If we can’t finish, Tuesday is also supposed to be in the 60’s and sunny. We have to finish on Tuesday because the hay mulch guy is bringing all the smashed bales to put in the Small garden on Wednesday.