I’ve now picked a squash, a massive zucchini, and five cherry tomatoes from the garden. (Plus basil and parsley, as needed.) The rosemary didn’t make it, and the cilantro has already flowered, that pesky stuff.
A little while ago, I made an organic fertilizer mix that I sprayed into the garden. This fertilizer required a can of beer. So, there I was in Wal-Mart in the middle of a Tuesday, buying the cheapest can of beer I could find. I’ve never felt so white trash in my life. It was a giant can of beer, too. One of those frat boy cans of beer. I had to call Sharon to ask what size a normal can of beer was, since this one seemed so big… I didn’t want to double the recipe unknowingly. We decided I should use half the can.
Buying a bottle of wine is one thing. Buying a can of beer in the Leland Wal-Mart on a Tuesday afternoon is quite another. I mean, it’s not like anyone could think, she’s having a party. No, it was, she’s buying herself a giant man can of beer at 2:30 in the afternoon.
Oh, what I do for my vegetable garden…
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Last night I used basil from my “garden” for the first time. It was delicious! My parsley, dill, and cilantro didn’t take, but I do have one cute rosemary plant that looks like a little Christmas tree.
I have a cookie recipe that uses beer, and I am always doing the same thing, trying to buy one can/bottle somewhere. It’s harder to do than one would think
Isn’t basil the best? I love that stuff. And I’ve always had good luck growing it, so even better.
I’ll have to get the cookie recipe from you–maybe I can use up the other half a can sooner rather than later!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA picturing any of this just cracks me up!
I feel certain that anyone taking a look at you with your can of beer assumed that you were using it for beer-battered something or other or were making the kind of bread that uses the yeast in beer to rise or something like that.
Also, to buy a single, normal-sized bottle of beer, both SuperTarget and Whole Foods have a section where you can make your own mixed 6-pack. You can just buy an individual bottle w/o making a whole pack. And no, I don’t know these things because I buy myself a giant man can of beer in the afternoon with any frequency. (I just date too many boys who drink too much beer, which isn’t necessarily any better.)
Ah ha! Yes, cooking with beer, I forgot about that. Let’s hope that’s what people were thinking. That’s much better.
Oh wow, I am excited to hear about your garden’s produce. How wonderful to be cooking with things you grew.
Ah yes, I bet that was an odd feeling out there buying that sole can of man beer (what a great phrase). A while back I had to buy a solitary can of beer for this beer bread mix we had. Alas, though I probably know more about beer than you do, I don’t know all that much, and I got some kind that had way too strong of a beer taste that permeated the bread and basically made it inedible. I hope your homemade fertilizer (awesome, by the way) worked out better than my bread!
Oh no, your poor bread! I wonder what kind is best for making bread? We need a beer connoisseur around so we can ask these kinds of questions. I think my plants are fine with the cheap stuff, but baked goods are perhaps more picky.
Have no fear, I’m sure that is not such a strange site to be seen at the Leland Wal-Mart. Well, maybe shocking to the cashier that you were not a middle aged man with an already developed beer gut and the latest NASCAR attire… Just kidding, sort of.
I just imagine when things like that happen that I have provided someone’s entertainment for the day, and then try to enjoy that thought myself.