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Made Chicken and red/green pepper stir-fry for dinner tonight.

Chicken cubed and marinated in cornstarch, low sodium soy sauce and egg white.
Deep fry in virgin olive and sesame oil (one of these days I’ll buy peanut oil) Set aside to drain, drain the oil, save for a couple tablespoons and stir fry some minced garlic and the peppers. Add the chicken back in and pour over a sauce made from Soy, brown sugar, cornstarch, water, wine, sesame oil and salt. (I know.. salt.. in a low sodium soy.. gimme a break it was a half a tsp. )

I didn’t bother making rice, so Bruce had the good sense to suggest noodles.

TADA.

Lookout world (or at least Poplar Grove), for we have released 7000 some odd bees to take up residence in our very own beehive.

Cali had the dubious honor of getting up close and Personal to secure the queen and shake the rest out of the travel container.

>> Covered in BEEs <<

So, my husband is having a dinner party which includes his boss and co-workers.  It will be informal, his boss, Erich, has wanted to try the homebrew for a while.  And so have the others.  There’s a training going on at work, so there are people from Australia, South America and Canada in town.  Seemed a perfect time for dinner.  And it was my suggestion when the training was announced.

So, today I’ve baked a loaf of banana bread, two loaves of regular bread, I still have dinner rolls on the rise and I started the corned beef boiling.  I also stuffed cheesecake filling into hollowed out strawberries and they are chilling before I sprinkle them with graham cracker crumbs.

Did some grocery shopping, took the dog to daycare (whic

Added compost to the beds purchased from Wasatch Shadows nursery.

Planted from seed:

Beets

Turnips

Tomatillo

Sweet Red Bell Pepper

Purchased, Not Yet Planted (starts)

Rhubarb

Blonde Raspberry bush

Italian Oregano

Silver Thyme

2 Green Bell Pepper Plants

Planted Today:

Black Beauty Zucchini

Pickling Cucumbers

Spacesaver Cucumbers

Lavender

Thyme

Cilantro

Cover crop of clover and creeping thyme mixed and spread between the raised beds and in the side yard.

Planted:

Carrots

Green Onions

Yellow Sweet Onions

Chives

Made sure all seeds were tamped down.  Will have to fence my raised beds otherwise the beds will be used as litter boxes.  Will have to get that stuff tomorrow.

After Matt tore down the 18″ tall raised beds that we’ve had for almost 3 years and made 6 6″ tall raised beds.  Here’s the pic of them filled with the soil from the original beds.

I’ve got a plan for all the beds, and in the back will be more raised areas for potatoes.  You can see the beehive in the back there, just waiting for my bees to be delivered.   And to the left of the beehive will be the watermelon/pumpkin patch.  No corn this year, it was a pain in the ass.

Planted today:

Italian Parsley

Spinach

Buttercrunch Lettuce

Cabbage

Chamomile

Red Leaf Lettuce

Cauliflower

Radishes

Borage

Marigold

Basil

Calendula

Slenderette Bush Beans

Sugar Snap Peas

This morning I started on the seedling tray:

Cherokee Purple Tomatoes

Amish Past Tomatoes

Ace 55 Tomatoes

Abe Lincoln Tomatoes

Brandywine Pink Tomatoes

Habanero Peppers

Jalapeno Peppers

Purple Belle Peppers

Ancho Peppers

I’ll plant the rest out in the yard once this upcoming cold snap is done.

Hope you will enjoy more pics soon.

#homebrew
Bottled the Mac n Jacks clone. Gorgeous African Amber with a mild hoppy bite to it. Very nice burnt orange color. Got 48 bottles & a “sample”.

Racked the Porter as well. I’m going to Bourbon this one up, so I added 2 whole vanilla beans after scraping them. The goo from the beans went in too.

All of this made possible by the fact I washed and sanitized 72 12oz bottles this morning rather than watch The Hobbit.

Happy Easter folks.

#Foodpr0n
I’m genuinely sad that we missed Zombie Jesus day celebration over at Megs & Jakey’s place. The days plans and tasks just didn’t balance out. I whipped up a quick light dinner of Lemon Honey chicken over rice. about half a cup of rice and 4 oz of chicken give or take. Costco breasts coated and basted with a honey, lemon & butter glaze with a dash of black pepper and paprika.

Turned out pretty good.

Hardly the Bacon Death I was looking forward to, but it will have to suffice.

The past 2 days I’ve been working outside trying to get the garden ready for planting. Built the 6 raised beds using the 2x6s from the green house and then put together the 3 chamber compost bin along the side wall using 10 pallets. They will be lined with 1/4 inch hardware cloth shortly.

See those groovy rectangles of dirt there? Yeah those are going to be evenly distributed to all 6 of the beds.

And WAY back in the corner there is our bee hive. As yet uninhabited, but we intend to rectify that once the weather promises to stop freezing.