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Artichokes from the garden. It used to be near impossible to grow them here unless in a greenhouse or orangerie, because they would freeze to death come winter. Now, with winter a thing of the past, we figured to give it a try out in the open.. Very, very good.

Isn't that first batch of pesto just great!

Came across a bunch of Chanterelles in the woods today. So, fresh pasta with chanterelle cream sauce and a salad from garden and tunnel. The Swiss are great lovers of wild mushrooms, so I'm in very good standing with the mail order bride today. She promptly took a picture of the catch, to send...

Harvested the first Basil in the tunnel. So new potatoes from the garden with pesto Genovese, a salad and some greek Kalamata olives. A German Weissbier for the mail order bride. I love this time of the year.

Jim, when I did my little:" lets try dying from sepsis combined with an unknown case of leukemia" thing, there arrived an aid package from Montana out of the blue. Something I never have and never will forget. Enjoy your dead Portuguese fishies :)

3 years ago, when I was up for re-certification, I got a call from a former apprentice. They had changed the rules, so you needed to show proof of a certain number of "units" of courses,classes etc. in order to be certified. They had of course notified all members of that in due time, so they...

Just the fact that I had to look it up, should be telling enough. The Danish arborist society " Dansk træplejeforening" were the ones that railroaded me twice, when I tried to become certified. I eventually took the exam in Germany. I hate those assholes!

Innovative therapies for children with cancer. I don't have kids. Only treason to get kids IMO is if you are allergic to dogs.

Hey, Jim! Those sardines are fast swimmers. They made the trip from Portugal to Denmark in record time. I figure they can swim the Atlantic about as fast, but the trip up the Mississippi and Missouri is against the stream, so it'll most likely take them a while. We'll see.

Thanks.

I'd be interested in knowing your potato salad recipe, Stephen.

Jim, I buy olive oil , olives and stuff from a small company in Portugal. Just ordered some, and because of your Sardine orgasm, I ordered an assortment of sardines as well. Be a while before they get to you, first they have to travel from Portugal to Denmark, then to Montana. Probably make it...

Same as the green ones, yes. Do you know that only half of us are genetically engineered to be able to smell them?

I love them, and will buy them when I find good ones. Soup, risotto or just cooked with a dab of butter as a side dish. Not surpricingly, the wine that pairs best with them is a bone dry, stony German Riesling.

The Germans go nuts over it in the short season. Asparagus festivals and stuff. I've often thought about going down for it, but they have a tendency to wrap them in slices of dead pig.

New potatoes, grilled asparageese ( That being the plural of asparagus............right?) and cowboy caviar. Made me think of something. I don't recall running across white asparagus in the US. Is that primarily a Thing in Europe?

Green risotto. A recipe I got from my neighbour, who sadly died last year. He was a great cook and an even better baker. Basic risotto with green asparagus, then just before adding the cheese you toss in a handful of basil, one of parsley and ½ a one of mint. Since all the herbs need cutting...

We had the first new potatoes from the garden today. Actually "from the garden" is stretching it a bit. The mail order bride started them in the kitchen, then moved them out in the greenhouse and then in the garden. She tries every year to beat her own record for earliest potatoes. Had them...

Fried beans and rice and the first lettuce from the greenhouse :)

What are those white worms? I baked 2 eggplants, halved and covered in ratatouille from the freezer. Easy and good.