This is what it looked like on the South Shore of Long Island today! Note flourishing raised beds….A special image for Cecilia of The Kitchen Garden’s Project. Click to connect to her!
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Mango Mojitos With Ancho Chili Salt
It was another summer Friday in the neighborhood and that called for another festive cocktail. Riding high on the success of last session’s passionfruit mojitos, I decided to make mango mojitos. The drink itself followed much the same construction, but the mango was decidedly sweeter than the passionfruit, so I decided that it needed a […]
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Passionfruit Mojitos by the Pitcher or Glass
Summer evenings in the neighborhood can be wonderful. Occasionally on a Friday some of us neighbors bring out folding chairs and sit together in one front yard for a bit of happy hour while the kids go mental on someone else’s lawn. It’s pretty much BYO, but we do mix up a pitcher of experimental […]
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KID IN THE KITCHEN: Tembleque (Tropical Coconut Pudding)
We spent the better part of last summer in Puerto Rico, and among the tasty things that my little guy fell in love with was tembleque, a jiggly (temblar means to tremble) dessert that falls somewhere between pudding and flan. I promised him we’d make it back in New York, and this weekend, for a […]
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SangrÃa Tropical (and rainforest paradise pictures)
When the heat gets tropical, so should the drinks. On a recent trip to the mountains of Puerto Rico, I was inspired by a wonderfully cooling and exotic sangrÃa I had up around and about El Yumque (Caribbean National Forest, the only tropical rainforest in the U.S. Forest Service system) at Noelia’s, recommended to us […]
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Salmorejo de jueyes (Land Crab Stew)
There are a number of land crab species skittering about Caribbean coastlines. Some are edible and the one we eat most here in Puerto Rico (although I am told they mostly are imported from Venezuela these days) is Cardisoma guanhumi which we call juey and — if you are English-speaking — you might call the […]
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I love the splash of colour provided by the birdie-box! I should get one to stop our monkeys from swiping the birdseed before the birds can get to it.
For us it’s the squirrels…under that cute, plump. and furry exterior lies a merciless marauder….
What an inviting space! And not, I might add, ‘just for the birds’. 🙂
We’ve just got a new nesting pair of English wrens, I believe. They started moving straw in today….
How pretty! I love that you take care of the birds.
Thanks, Tammy! It’s my parents really who are in charge of bird support! We all love them!
Lovely to work with you today, I’ll be following your Blog!
Same here! Thanks for all the support both at the winery and for following the blog! Make sure to sign up for email notifications…
The view from your porch is lovely and your raised beds look terrific.
Thank you Karen! (in that picture you can’t see the suffering tomato plants – first sunburn, now low temps!)
My tomatoes are still in my potting shed…normally we would be in Maine now and they would be in the ground. It has been raining for days and todays high was 48. 😦
Crazy, crazy Spring…scoffing at us gardeners…
Jealous! Bigtime!! Such lovely petunias so early in the season . . . and love the birdfeeders too 🙂 ! This was a great idea of Celi’s: now we all have somewhat of an idea of where we write from!!
We have loads of birds here…more than 30 species make an appearance in a given year! No kookaburra’s though….
You would not want the ‘darlings’ sitting on your window sill at daybreak ‘singing for their breakfast’!! What a racket 🙂 !
oh but they do…blue jays particularly are ver y vocal. But me and the boy can sleep through ANYTHING!
Yes I do!