Brrrr!

When it's this cold at 7am....

You need hot coffee and a hearty fried potato, fried plantain and egg breakfast
(Asta got 1/3 of that plate.)

You need to bake some doggie bones to heat up the kitchen. (Note the cake mix, almonds, and pineapple at the side for Marvelous Morning Muffins next).

And start a gallon of smoked turkey gumbo.


Hard to believe dinner the night before was a leisurely harvest from the garden: Romano beans, salad of Romaine, arugula, and cilantro, served with storebought red onions and and chile rubbed pollock filet. Not enough salad to use dressing but the live arugula and cilantro kept it from being bland.


The courtyard salad bowl, front to back: arugula, Romaine (to be transplanted), cilantro.

Bottom left bowl above is shallots I'd hoped to have in December/January but Asta had other plans. Here they were last week, when I thought they were safe on the ground.

In another week there'll be red tip lettuce for salads.