Or so the old rhyme went.. she did go to a market, because she took two pots of Polish fermented summer salad to her Goaty friend Debbie. But no pigs were for sale, so we are pigless!
Then she went to the allotments.. on a Sunday.. need I say more? It took ages to get there as she had to go on down to the bottom of the King's Road and come back up Fulham Palace Road to find a 220 bus stop.
Eventually she was there.. little shed unmolested.. but the grass and weeds were very high in the sky.. and old Forget-me-not is growing everywhere she shouldn't be! So into shed and out with strimmer, who started first time! Very strange as it had refused to work two weeks ago.
Zoom.. off with their heads and she cut paths through most of her jungle until she ran out of petrol.. boring.. so she went to pick herbs and to see if there was any asparagus at all. Just a small amount, enough for one greedy pair, I love asparagus!
She's done the following recipe with her portion for supper tonight.
You'll need the following:
Asparagus.
Fusilli Pasta.
Olive Oil.
2 cloves of Garlic.
1 Dried Red Chilli.
Small handful of chopped Walnuts.
Grated zest and juice of a sweet Orange.
Parmesan cheese to grate.
Two saucepans, one large, one small.
A large griddle or non-stick frying pan.
Cook the pasta for about 8 minutes. Keep it in the pan, do not drain.
Cook asparagus in a steamer with boilimg water for about 3 minutes.
Drain and dry on kitchen paper and toss in some olive oil.
Heat a large non stick pan and cook the asparagus on a high heat.
Turn them once and cook until they are charred.. but NOT burnt to a frazzle!
Drain the pasta and return to the pan.
Heat more olive oil in a small saucepan, add the chopped garlic and chilli.
Cook until garlic just turns colour, add walnuts, orange zest and juice, bring to a rolling simmer.
Pour this onto the drain pasta, add the charred asparagus and mix together, grate on the parmesan.
Slurp.
She is busy in the day time tomorrow and being inducted as a Rotarian in the evening. If the weather is fine this week, we are off to play at the garden! She has cleaning, scrubbing and tidying work to do in little shed and there is much work to do on the beds and on the terrace and so I will be within sight at all time.
Hopefully Andrew, another plot holder, will be there as she would much prefer it if she was able to give him the work but he is, apparently, busy. So she may have to get the three strong young men to do the clearing work. It might be quicker with them doing it.
Another week has flown by.. whoosh.. and zoom, there goes May! Note to her.. remember to buy a couple of litres of petrol for the strimmer, even if all the beds are not yet dug, cutting the grass will make it all look a lot better and the strimmer wire cuts down on nasty Slug and his crawly friends.
GeeGee Parrot.
May 17th, 2015.
Then she went to the allotments.. on a Sunday.. need I say more? It took ages to get there as she had to go on down to the bottom of the King's Road and come back up Fulham Palace Road to find a 220 bus stop.
Eventually she was there.. little shed unmolested.. but the grass and weeds were very high in the sky.. and old Forget-me-not is growing everywhere she shouldn't be! So into shed and out with strimmer, who started first time! Very strange as it had refused to work two weeks ago.
Zoom.. off with their heads and she cut paths through most of her jungle until she ran out of petrol.. boring.. so she went to pick herbs and to see if there was any asparagus at all. Just a small amount, enough for one greedy pair, I love asparagus!
She's done the following recipe with her portion for supper tonight.
You'll need the following:
Asparagus.
Fusilli Pasta.
Olive Oil.
2 cloves of Garlic.
1 Dried Red Chilli.
Small handful of chopped Walnuts.
Grated zest and juice of a sweet Orange.
Parmesan cheese to grate.
Two saucepans, one large, one small.
A large griddle or non-stick frying pan.
Cook the pasta for about 8 minutes. Keep it in the pan, do not drain.
Cook asparagus in a steamer with boilimg water for about 3 minutes.
Drain and dry on kitchen paper and toss in some olive oil.
Heat a large non stick pan and cook the asparagus on a high heat.
Turn them once and cook until they are charred.. but NOT burnt to a frazzle!
Drain the pasta and return to the pan.
Heat more olive oil in a small saucepan, add the chopped garlic and chilli.
Cook until garlic just turns colour, add walnuts, orange zest and juice, bring to a rolling simmer.
Pour this onto the drain pasta, add the charred asparagus and mix together, grate on the parmesan.
Slurp.
She is busy in the day time tomorrow and being inducted as a Rotarian in the evening. If the weather is fine this week, we are off to play at the garden! She has cleaning, scrubbing and tidying work to do in little shed and there is much work to do on the beds and on the terrace and so I will be within sight at all time.
Hopefully Andrew, another plot holder, will be there as she would much prefer it if she was able to give him the work but he is, apparently, busy. So she may have to get the three strong young men to do the clearing work. It might be quicker with them doing it.
Another week has flown by.. whoosh.. and zoom, there goes May! Note to her.. remember to buy a couple of litres of petrol for the strimmer, even if all the beds are not yet dug, cutting the grass will make it all look a lot better and the strimmer wire cuts down on nasty Slug and his crawly friends.
GeeGee Parrot.
May 17th, 2015.
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