#mealy cup sage

[indigrassy]

A sage friend

[ironymobile]

More seeds arrived (for next spring) -- violas, pansies, and scabiosa.

What I've planted so far this year (including winter crops):

Orange Flame Marigolds Kilimanjaro White Marigolds Pink Dandelions (Taraxacum pseudoroseum) Heshiko Bunching Onions Pacific Cream Calendula Apricot Cream Calendula Florence Red Onion Broad Leaf Sage Kiwi Blue Honeywort Fama Blue Scabiosa Fama White Scabiosa Isaac House Scabiosa

Moldavian dragonhead balm, chives, feverfew, genovese basil, neon calendula, ivory calendula, agostino basil, cinnamon basil, persian basil, lime basil, polka-dot plant, chervil, mandarina lemon balm, opal basil, cilantro, blue border mealy cup sage, strawberry pincushion cactus, peruvian apple cactus.

Not all are current.

[uyamt]

ブルーサルビア／サルビア・ファリナセア Blue salvia / Salvia farinacea / mealy sage / mealy-cup sage

[grandmawitch]

Vegan Mushroom, "Beef", and Onion Hand Pies

1 tbsp olive oil

1 large sweet onion, diced

1 pint mushrooms, minced

6 garlic cloves, minced

1 1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp pepper

3 tsp paprika

1 tsp cumin

1/3 tsp sage

1 tsp rosemary

1 13.7 oz bag Gardein beefless crumbles

For the pie crust

2 1/2 cups flour

1/3 cup cold water

1/2 cup room temperature coconut oil

2 tbsp sugar

2 tbsp salt

Whisk together flour, sugar, and salt. Add the room temperature coconut oil. Work the coconut oil into the flour with a pastry cutter or your fingers until it forms a gravelly crumby meal. Slowly add the cold water, use just enough to bind the mealy bits into a dough, be careful not to let it become too wet and sticky. Knead the dough a few times then put it in the fridge while you work on the filling.

Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onions and cook for around 5 minutes. Add mushrooms and garlic and cook for another 5 minutes, stirring often. I like to add a splash of soy sauce when I add the mushrooms but this is optional.

Grind the spices in a mortar and pestle (or use ground spices) then add to the mushrooms and onions. Stir and cook another two minutes.

Add the meatless crumbles and another tbsp olive oil and mix until the crumbles are heated through. Turn off the heat and let the mixture cool slightly while you roll out your dough.

Lightly flour your work surface and roll out your dough to about 1/4-1/8 inch thickness.

Use a 4 inch circle cookie cutter (if we're being honest here I just traced a large mug with a knife) to cut the dough into discs.

Using your hands, pack about a tbsp or so of filling into the middle of the dough disc, fold it over to close and use a fork to crimp the edges sealed. Decorate with little leaves if you'd like.

Arrange on a greased baking sheet 1 inch apart. Melt a little coconut oil and brush over a very thin layer, sprinkle all of the hand pies with a pinch of salt.

Bake at 375F/190C for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.

Enjoy!

PS-- If you have leftover filling pop it in a container and freeze it for next time! If you can keep your partner and their fork out of it. I end up with a ton leftover every time 😂

ig: granny_witch

[creek-cryptid-deluxe]

You future casualties of the Octopus War are overdue for an update on The Garden for Wayward Pollinators and Fae... and my criminally obtained granite boulders.

(Although, they were purchased by the city using tax dollars & weren't touched for 5 years so REALLY I'm just reclaiming what my taxes purchased...)

Anyway UPDATES!

First of all, the creeping rose beds that I shoved some bulbs in are doing alright but a pumpkin snuck in & is flourishing. (Please disregard my partly painted fence as it is a WIP)

Onions, that last surviving pickling cucumber, and a bunch flowers I forgot about.

Lemon balm & white yarrow (both from seed)

The jasmine, rosemary, & blue mealy cup sage (with more random flower seeds). The jasmine is trying to come back after last year's shenanigans & I bought the rosemary duo, but everything else was seeds.

Then there's this ridiculous bullshit. Blueberry cherry tomato x2, sun sugar tomatoes, lemon mint bee balm, lemon thyme, spike lavender, & a bunch of fucking flowers. Then a window box of cilantro.

This is a combination of flowers including snapdragons, lupine, hollyhock, & some other shit. The window box is chamomile.

Aaaaaand I've hit the image limit so I guess the crime rocks will be another post.

[double8cattle]

Tourtiere Canadian Wagyu Meat Pie

INGREDIENTS

2 LB Double 8 Cattle Company Fullblood Wagyu Ground Beef

2 TBSP Grapeseed Oil

1 Yellow Onion (small diced)

3 Garlic Cloves (minced)

1 LB Ground Pork

1 CUP Yukon Gold Potatoes (medium diced)

1 1/2 TSP Cinnamon

1 1/2 TSP Oregano

1 1/2 TSP Mustard Powder

1/2 TSP All Spice

1/2 TSP Cloves

1 TSP Dried Thyme

1 TSP Dried Sage

2 TSP Coarse Salt

1/2 CUP Beef Stock

3 TBSP Flour

Egg Wash (1 Egg and 1 TSP Cold Water)

Pie Dough

1 1/2 CUP All Purpose Flour

1/4 TSP Salt

3/4 CUP Cold Butter (cut into small pieces)

1 Egg

2 TBSP Ice Water

PREPARING THE PIE FILLING

Preheat the oven to 375 ̊F.

Coat the Yukon gold potatoes with grapeseed oil, and place them in the oven.

Roast the potatoes until soft, and then mash them.

Heat a large skillet with some grapeseed oil.

Once hot, add the onions, and sauté until translucent.

Add the Fullblood Wagyu ground beef and the ground pork. Brown the meat while breaking it up into small pieces.

Add the minced garlic and mashed Yukon gold potatoes to the skillet.

Add the spices (mustard powder, cloves, all spice, thyme, sage, cinnamon, oregano, salt).

In a small bowl, whisk the beef stock and 3 tablespoons of flour until smooth. Pour the mixture into the skillet.

Cook everything until the broth has thickened.

Cool the pie filling for 1 hour or overnight.

PREPARING THE PIE DOUGH

Mix together the all purpose flour and salt.

By hand, cut or rub the small pieces of cold butter into the flour and salt mixture. Continue until a “mealy” consistency is achieved.

Blend together the egg and ice water. Then, slowly add to the other ingredients.

Stop mixing as soon as the dough forms.

Split the dough into two equal portions. Wrap each portion of dough in plastic wrap.

Let the dough rest in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour before use (you can also let it cool overnight).

FINAL STEPS

Using the pie dough, roll out the bottom crust. Place it in a 9-inch pie plate .

Fill the crust with the meat filling, and top with remaining pie crust.

Seal the two crusts together, tucking the top crust under the bottom crust and pinching to create a decorative edge.

Brush the top crust with the egg wash.

Bake at 375 ̊F for 45 to 50 minutes or until the pie crust is golden brown in color.

Serve warm, and enjoy!

[housedecorclub]

ブルーサルビア／サルビア・ファリナセア Blue salvia / Salvia farinacea / mealy sage...

ブルーサルビア／サルビア・ファリナセア Blue salvia / Salvia farinacea / mealy sage…

ブルーサルビア／サルビア・ファリナセア

Blue salvia / Salvia farinacea / mealy sage / mealy-cup sage

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Rachel Goenka’s 10-minute pasta and other recipes

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Rachel Goenka’s 10-minute pasta and other recipes

My sister and I are usually the ones in the kitchen. The other day, we tried a really nice pasta: it was super easy. I used butter as the base, some garlic, some chilli flakes, hazelnuts (you can use any nuts you have at home). I also used fresh sage, but if you don’t have any fresh herbs, you can use any dried herbs, or basil. We just tossed them all together in a pan and added the pre-cooked pasta, and just a sprinkle of Parmesan on top. It all came together in 10 minutes.

We have also been trying a number of Goan dishes, mainly from my grandmother’s traditional recipes. I had made a chicken cafreal from her recipes, and also a vindaloo – it’s too hot for a vindaloo now. The dish is very spicy, and we are trying to eat as light as possible because it is so hot even with all the ACs on.

I also made a mango parfait recently; it is another very easy recipe. It took five minutes to make. It is like a cheese dessert, you know: you can use crushed Marie biscuits or digestive biscuits as the base. For the filling, we just used some cream cheese, heavy cream, vanilla and sugar. I whipped it all together, put it on top of the crust, and put some fresh mangoes on top; you can put whatever fruit you have lying around.

No-bake peanut butter banana chocolate chip granola bars

Ingredients: 1 cup pitted whole dates; 1 cup ripe banana; 1/2 cup oats; 2 tsp flaxseeds; 1/2 cup sliced almonds; 1/2 cup peanut butter; 4 tablespoons honey; 2 tablespoons maple syrup; 1 teaspoon vanilla essence; 1 cup rice krispies; 1/3 cup mini chocolate chips; 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon (more if desired); pinch of salt

Method: Line an 8×8 dish with parchment paper and set aside. In a food processor add dates and banana. Blend until the mixture is broken up and looks mealy. Add in the rolled oats, almonds and flaxseeds and process for a few seconds just to help break up the oats. In a large bowl stir together peanut butter, honey, maple syrup and vanilla essence. Add the date/oat mixture to the bowl along with the puffed rice cereal, mini chocolate chips, cinnamon and salt. Stir to combine. Once the mixture is stirred together it should be sticky enough to stick together when pressed. If the mixture is not sticky enough, add a little more honey. Add the mixture to the prepared dish and firmly press down into the pan. Let the mixture sit in the fridge for about an hour before cutting, just to help firm up the granola bars. They can be eaten right away but will be a bit soft.

Recipe by Rachel Goenka

We make granola at home, too – I like homemade granola. My sister and I make some every three or four days, because it gets over very fast. I also made a strawberry parfait earlier, with yoghurt, honey and the granola. One day, we also made some Brazilian cheesy bread.

Usually, I eat only three meals a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner. I don’t normally snack in between. But nowadays, I usually end up having something during tea-time. It is mainly traditional stuff, like poha or sheera, or semaiya (vermicelli) sheera. I have been making quite a few tea cakes as well.

And we have been doing a lot of work calls lately, during which I have been drinking a lot more tea or coffee than I usually do. Most of my day goes into work: when my husband and I wake up, we spend about an hour with our son, and then we are on call with the team till about lunchtime. Then after lunch, we are back on the phone.

Right now, everyone is in strategy mode: trying to figure out how to maximise deliveries, what we need to open up, what needs to stay closed, especially in Pune. Pune is a lot stricter in terms of rules, so we are trying to figure that out. Everyone is struggling, try to figure out salaries and other things. So there are a lot of calls, not just with our team but other people in the industry as well.

Rachel Goenka, founder and CEO of The Chocolate Spoon Company   | Photo Credit: special arrangement

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[wendyimmiller]

Natives here, natives there, natives, natives everywhere…

Is there any garden center that doesn’t carry coneflower?

Now and again, someone asks me where they can buy native plants. Sometimes they go on to complain that native plants are hard to find in today’s nursery industry. My hackles rise, and I know at that moment that they have no real knowledge of plants, yet have simply heard this somewhere and felt it worth repeating. It’s just another example of industry bashing without investigating the facts. In fact, in a chat with plant guru and renowned nurseryman Bill Barnes just the other day, he said that he personally surveyed the industry and that three of every four plants in the landscape industry were native or derived from natives.

Many selections of the native smooth hydrangea are available.

    I know I can walk into any local garden center and find a large number of natives. Are these peevish people unaware that the ubiquitous blackeyed Susans and coneflowers are native? That’s just for starters. You may choose to speed read the next two paragraphs to match how quickly my fingers typed the many native plants that are commonly found in our region’s  local garden centers. Please don’t be vexed that I am choosing not to use binomial nomenclature for the sake of brevity.

Southern magnolia is a staple offering in southern states.

Specifics are important, as there are often native and non-native species of the plants that I have chosen to list by the most broadly accepted common names in this region. I am also not going to get into the controversy over cultivars of natives at this time, but will on a later date. I’m certain I can find both smooth and oakleaf hydrangea, ninebark, sweetshrub, inkberry, fothergilla, clethra, sweetspire, beautyberry, blueberry, serviceberry, winterberry and deciduous holly, yaupon holly, rhododendron, native azalea, bayberry, redbud, dogwoods, southern and sweetbay magnolia, bald cypress, red and sugar maple, tulip poplar, several species of native oak, river birch, Carolina jessamine, coral honeysuckle, beebalm, several phlox, butterfly weed, blanketflower, Joe-pye weed, yucca, panicums, coreopsis, perennial hibiscus, yarrow and mealy cup sage. Pant, pant… Somewhat less common, but often found in the better garden centers include buttonbush, sumac, bottlebrush and red buckeye, witch-hazel, pawpaw, hornbeam, anisetree, poplarleaf leucothoe, chokeberry, baptisia, spigelia, obedient plant, asters, tiarella, muhly grass, crested iris, autumn sage, amsonia, snakeroot , columbine, liatris, cardinal flower, bigleaf magnolia, blackgum, asters and…you get it, so I’ll stop.

This was a long route to point out that the folks that say native plants are hard to find, wouldn’t know a native if they were standing on it. I shouldn’t be surprised in this era, when It’s no longer important to inform yourself on topics before passing judgement. Silly me, to think folks might research a topic before forming an opinion. but then, look all around us at today’s America, where sorting truth from spin has fallen from fashion.

Wrenching the wheel back from that political veer, here is my complaint about native plants. Some of the easiest to grow and most useful native plants have not made their way into mainstream markets. I’m faced with my own ineptitude when I look at a couple of decades of trying to convince growers to grow these, retailers to carry them, and consumers to ask for them. It’s a chicken or the egg sort of dilemma.

Lemony blooms of spicebush light up this wild slough in late winter.

Stunning, lush, loved by wildlife, so why let a few thorns stop you?What’s not to want about a late winter blooming shrub/small tree that will grow in sun or shade, isn’t picky about soil, has golden fall color, can provide red berries for wildlife or for your own culinary use, and produces wonderfully fragrant foliage that provides food the caterpillars of beautiful butterflies? Who wouldn’t want that? Yet spicebush is largely absent in the trade. When I’ve been able to find it, the plants are seed grown, and there is no way to know the gender on the young specimens. I’d like to have several females and a male for pollinating, maybe one more male as a backup stud. Instead, the seller tells me to buy several, and hope there will be at least one of each gender in the lot. I don’t like this suggestion, but I summon a smiling response, since I’m told by those that have tried that our native spicebush is not easy to root from cuttings. Tissue culture could be an option, but since there is so little demand, there has been little interest. Another pet native is devil’s walking stick, Aralia spinosa. This glorious plant is billowing into clouds of creamy blooms alongside most country roads in late summer in west Tennessee, but the foliage alone is exquisite. Each enormous leaf flutters with intricate bi- to tri-pinnately compound leaves that can span up to five feet in width, the largest of any temperate tree on the continent. Many pollinators are attracted to the beach ball sized panicles of small ivory flowers, but these blooms seem to be especially prized by the larger swallowtails. The dark purple berries are relished by birds, and by that time the stems of the infructescence has turned a brilliant deep pink that will remain on the plant for weeks.

Sure, its suckering nature is a drawback to some, so if you don’t have the space to let it colonize, remove those as they appear. I’ve seen individual stems get to 30 feet, and add strong vertical drama to the vignette. Other drawbacks? I’ve seen the “are you crazy?” look on people’s faces when they realize I mean the plant with the rings of wicked thorns on the trunks. These are people who have just shown me pictures of their yards, crowded with landscape roses or barberries. Hypocrites.

A few die-hard native plant nurseries carry it. Trees by Touliatos was the only mainstream nursery I knew that did, and that fabulous destination garden center is now erased from the planet.

Plato, I miss you every day, but you are always riding along with me every time I pass a stunning colony of devil’s walking stick on a country road. You were always ahead of the curve…

Natives here, natives there, natives, natives everywhere… originally appeared on Garden Rant on July 26, 2018.

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[turfandlawncare]

Natives here, natives there, natives, natives everywhere…

Is there any garden center that doesn’t carry coneflower?

Now and again, someone asks me where they can buy native plants. Sometimes they go on to complain that native plants are hard to find in today’s nursery industry. My hackles rise, and I know at that moment that they have no real knowledge of plants, yet have simply heard this somewhere and felt it worth repeating. It’s just another example of industry bashing without investigating the facts. In fact, in a chat with plant guru and renowned nurseryman Bill Barnes just the other day, he said that he personally surveyed the industry and that three of every four plants in the landscape industry were native or derived from natives.

Many selections of the native smooth hydrangea are available.

    I know I can walk into any local garden center and find a large number of natives. Are these peevish people unaware that the ubiquitous blackeyed Susans and coneflowers are native? That’s just for starters. You may choose to speed read the next two paragraphs to match how quickly my fingers typed the many native plants that are commonly found in our region’s  local garden centers. Please don’t be vexed that I am choosing not to use binomial nomenclature for the sake of brevity.

Southern magnolia is a staple offering in southern states.

Specifics are important, as there are often native and non-native species of the plants that I have chosen to list by the most broadly accepted common names in this region. I am also not going to get into the controversy over cultivars of natives at this time, but will on a later date. I’m certain I can find both smooth and oakleaf hydrangea, ninebark, sweetshrub, inkberry, fothergilla, clethra, sweetspire, beautyberry, blueberry, serviceberry, winterberry and deciduous holly, yaupon holly, rhododendron, native azalea, bayberry, redbud, dogwoods, southern and sweetbay magnolia, bald cypress, red and sugar maple, tulip poplar, several species of native oak, river birch, Carolina jessamine, coral honeysuckle, beebalm, several phlox, butterfly weed, blanketflower, Joe-pye weed, yucca, panicums, coreopsis, perennial hibiscus, yarrow and mealy cup sage. Pant, pant… Somewhat less common, but often found in the better garden centers include buttonbush, sumac, bottlebrush and red buckeye, witch-hazel, pawpaw, hornbeam, anisetree, poplarleaf leucothoe, chokeberry, baptisia, spigelia, obedient plant, asters, tiarella, muhly grass, crested iris, autumn sage, amsonia, snakeroot , columbine, liatris, cardinal flower, bigleaf magnolia, blackgum, asters and…you get it, so I’ll stop.

This was a long route to point out that the folks that say native plants are hard to find, wouldn’t know a native if they were standing on it. I shouldn’t be surprised in this era, when It’s no longer important to inform yourself on topics before passing judgement. Silly me, to think folks might research a topic before forming an opinion. but then, look all around us at today’s America, where sorting truth from spin has fallen from fashion.

Wrenching the wheel back from that political veer, here is my complaint about native plants. Some of the easiest to grow and most useful native plants have not made their way into mainstream markets. I’m faced with my own ineptitude when I look at a couple of decades of trying to convince growers to grow these, retailers to carry them, and consumers to ask for them. It’s a chicken or the egg sort of dilemma.

Lemony blooms of spicebush light up this wild slough in late winter.

Stunning, lush, loved by wildlife, so why let a few thorns stop you?What’s not to want about a late winter blooming shrub/small tree that will grow in sun or shade, isn’t picky about soil, has golden fall color, can provide red berries for wildlife or for your own culinary use, and produces wonderfully fragrant foliage that provides food the caterpillars of beautiful butterflies? Who wouldn’t want that? Yet spicebush is largely absent in the trade. When I’ve been able to find it, the plants are seed grown, and there is no way to know the gender on the young specimens. I’d like to have several females and a male for pollinating, maybe one more male as a backup stud. Instead, the seller tells me to buy several, and hope there will be at least one of each gender in the lot. I don’t like this suggestion, but I summon a smiling response, since I’m told by those that have tried that our native spicebush is not easy to root from cuttings. Tissue culture could be an option, but since there is so little demand, there has been little interest. Another pet native is devil’s walking stick, Aralia spinosa. This glorious plant is billowing into clouds of creamy blooms alongside most country roads in late summer in west Tennessee, but the foliage alone is exquisite. Each enormous leaf flutters with intricate bi- to tri-pinnately compound leaves that can span up to five feet in width, the largest of any temperate tree on the continent. Many pollinators are attracted to the beach ball sized panicles of small ivory flowers, but these blooms seem to be especially prized by the larger swallowtails. The dark purple berries are relished by birds, and by that time the stems of the infructescence has turned a brilliant deep pink that will remain on the plant for weeks.

Sure, its suckering nature is a drawback to some, so if you don’t have the space to let it colonize, remove those as they appear. I’ve seen individual stems get to 30 feet, and add strong vertical drama to the vignette. Other drawbacks? I’ve seen the “are you crazy?” look on people’s faces when they realize I mean the plant with the rings of wicked thorns on the trunks. These are people who have just shown me pictures of their yards, crowded with landscape roses or barberries. Hypocrites.

A few die-hard native plant nurseries carry it. Trees by Touliatos was the only mainstream nursery I knew that did, and that fabulous destination garden center is now erased from the planet.

Plato, I miss you every day, but you are always riding along with me every time I pass a stunning colony of devil’s walking stick on a country road. You were always ahead of the curve…

Natives here, natives there, natives, natives everywhere… originally appeared on Garden Rant on July 26, 2018.

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[indigrassy]

The latest fall fashion

[ironymobile]

Moldavian dragonhead balm, chives, feverfew, genovese basil, fama white scabiosa, isaac house scabiosa, neon calendula, agostino basil, persian basil, lime basil, apricot calendula, cream calendula, polka-dot plant, chervil, mandarina lemon balm, opal basil, cilantro, broadleaf sage, blue border mealy cup sage.

I'm going overboard but it's fun.

Fun fact: the Victorian Blue mealy cup sage was used medicinally in earlier decades, but the other varieties are uncertain.

[uyamt]

ブルーサルビア／サルビア・ファリナセア Blue salvia / Salvia farinacea / mealy sage / mealy-cup sage

[fulviomeloni]

Mealy Cup Sage (Salvia Farinacea) by ZezanneB http://ift.tt/2xOMIf2 #macro

[dreamzs338]

A Long Lasting Blue Flower Salvia (Sage)

A Long Lasting Blue Flower Salvia (Sage)

Of a number of salvias is grown in the garden, the Salvia farinacea (blue salvia, or mealy-cup stage). A tender perennial grown as a half hardy annual in most climates, it has blue flower spikes 2 to 3 feet long that are as very attractive and long lasting in the garden as they are in bouquets. Others include Salvia splendens, or scarlet sage, which is a perennial grown as a tender annual and has…

[indigrassy]

You can't skip lunch