The Culinary Arts Thread

I tried the pot thing and it just gets too hot, and I got tired of moving everything every day.

If you don't grow garlic, you should try it, if for no other reason than for the scapes. That is if you lime garlic. A little in that soup would be purrfect.

I planted garlic this year. Gonna look for the scapes. I have never used them.
It was really hot here in the fall. I thought my broccoli and cauliflower had bolted, but they are doing good now.

I have watercress and spinach. If you Plant a row every week or two, you will have fresh at all times. I read watercress is more nutritious than spinach or kale. So, I planted some. 🤗
 
Olive Garden is the worst restaurant on the planet
They have to give free food away
Darden sold off Red Lobster which isn’t a good restaurant but they do that because it’s crap 💩 food
 
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I planted garlic this year. Gonna look for the scapes. I have never used them.
It was really hot here in the fall. I thought my broccoli and cauliflower had bolted, but they are doing good now.

I have watercress and spinach. If you Plant a row every week or two, you will have fresh at all times. I read watercress is more nutritious than spinach or kale. So, I planted some. 🤗
I had never experienced bolting, until Lima mentioned it, then it seemed lime the next day everything I had planted bolted.

I tried radish last year, but it stayed too hot and they were small and tough. Its just too big of a pain in the butt. I'm getting angry just talking about it. Lulz.
 
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What do I do with a ton of rosemary with winter approaching? Five bushes in this pic, all around knee-high (the rest is lavender and Russian sage - just ornamentals.)

I’ve never dried or preserved stuff before. There’s only so much I can use up before serious frost hits.

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Slice clued me in on this post.

I love love love fresh and dried herbs. The sage and rosemary are cold hardy. Trim your rosemary into little Christmas tree shapes. It’s like haveing decorative food! The lavender will not survive the winter, but can be dried and used for aromatherapy.

I have two drying methods. 1. Easiest...get paper bags, when you go to the grocery store and save them. (Make great weed barrier too) prune to herb and turn it upside down in the paper bag. Keep it in a dry area. When it is dried, grab the stem and shake loose leaves off into the bottom of the bag, then strip the rest into bag.
2. Tie the hers with string, cut below and then tie to a line inside to dry upside down.
 
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"Darden sold off Red Lobster which isn’t a good restaurant but they do that because it’s crap 💩 food'

Okay I got that, and I vehemently disagree, but the above...are you saying Red Lobster isn't a good restaurant but Olive Garden gives food away because its crap?
I love Red Lobster 🦞 and endless shrimp 🍤 . Hate Olive Garden and their free bread 🥖 sticks, endless pasta, plus whatever crap they will bring you. Jmo
 
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I planted garlic this year. Gonna look for the scapes. I have never used them.
It was really hot here in the fall. I thought my broccoli and cauliflower had bolted, but they are doing good now.

I have watercress and spinach. If you Plant a row every week or two, you will have fresh at all times. I read watercress is more nutritious than spinach or kale. So, I planted some. 🤗
Do you keep seedlings coming along under lights? We’re making serious noises about starting from seed for an extended season with lots of greens, herbs, etc.

Living in Asheville, there’s no shortage of grow lights and whatnot, lol.
 
Did you have a bad experience? Food poisoning? Or just overrated?
Not Topside, but our experience of Olive Garden is that they don’t do anything we couldn’t do, and it has the less-than-lovely background of screaming little kids and soccer teams.

Note that this comes from two people in their sixties, one of whom went to Olive Garden with a bunch of soccer teams. You kids get off my lawn!
 
Do you keep seedlings coming along under lights? We’re making serious noises about starting from seed for an extended season with lots of greens, herbs, etc.

Living in Asheville, there’s no shortage of grow lights and whatnot, lol.

No grow lights here! Or at least no one knows about them. 😂
I just direct plant the spinach, Bibb lettuce and watercress. I try seeds for things I can direct sow. . I avoid that hybrid crap. There something wrong with plants if you can’t grow another plant from its seed! Well you can grow a plant but you don’t get fruit from it. That’s not right!
 
It’s a buffet marketing ploy that downgraded the food. I understand that market franchises have to keep food the same for recognition. That’s all restaurants that are made to do things the same way with ingredients pre made.
 
I really need to gtfo here and watch The Meg. Wanted to last night but was having too much fun here. I got Oceans 8 too. Only got time for one if I start it in the next 2 minutes.
 
I will say that for the price, I’d rather go to OG than Carabba’s, at least the one I’ve gone to.

There’s one in East Memphis to which I flee when I need a break from mothering my mother, and other than house white wine at happy hour and good WiFi at the bar, everything I’ve tried so far except one item is uniformly awful. Anything in a cheese sauce is incredibly over-sauced with slightly cheese-flavored glue. As DH#1 would say, “It’s real average.”

Exception was their prosciutto and fontina stuffed pork chop with mushrooms. Which I then made at home. 1543715093407.gif
 
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