Thanks for the Mammaries

Ever wonder what your baby has been drinking her whole life? Me too! My two-month-old didn't finish all of her boob juice, so I decided to give it a try.

Verdict: Not as tasty as I was expecting. I thought it would be thick and sweet, but instead it was fairly bland and thin.

Does this gross you out? Would you try breast milk?

If you say so...

I asked Kara what I should make for dinner, and she said, "Alfredo". So I cooked up some angel hair pasta, poured in some half&half, black pepper, and butter, topped it with a chopped up tomato from my garden, and done.

Fresh pesto for lunch?

Why not?

Step 1. Go out to the garden and pick a bunch of fresh basil leaves.
Step 2. Throw washed basil, sunflower seeds, and parmesan cheese into the food processor.
Step 3. Cut a hole in the box.
Step 3. ????
Step 4. Profit!

Dump it all in! No measuring required.

Blend together with a bunch of olive oil.

Mix together with whatever pasta you have sitting around, throw in <meat of choice>. In this case, bacon and sausage.

Pack it up and eat it for lunch! yum.

What did you have for lunch today?

Grilled Beef Ribs

Ribs grilled for almost two hours, a baked potato (with bacon), and some spinach (wife's addition)

More pizza :)

I know I post a lot of pizza photos. I'm like a proud dad.

Ricotta, home-grown tomatoes, home grown basil, jimmy dean sausage.

What's your "Go-To" meal?

Garden Dinner

Tonight's meal brought to you via MY GARDEN. That's right, fresh basil for the pesto, plucked from my basil plants. Garnished with fresh tomatoes, ripe from my tomato plant.

Next time, I'll have to make my own pasta too. I was too lazy for that this time. I probably won't be able to get fresh chicken for a couple years, when my friend's chickens get too old to lay eggs. This will do for now.

Check out my garden!

I started a garden about a month ago, and it's doing great, for the most part. The big winner so far is my Roma tomato plant, which seems to be taking up more than its fair share of space.

I originally started it out based on the Square Foot Gardening technique, but I was not terribly precise when I did the actual planting, so it looks more "organic" now. Yeah, it's not "messy", it's "organic".

The fence is to keep out the bunnies. We have a whole bunch of them that live under the deck. Since they can't eat my plants, they eat the strawberries in my neighbor's garden. :)

Look at all these tomatoes!

I don't even like tomatoes.

I plan to use these for pizza sauce when they get ripe. I figure that's the next step in pizza making, now that I have the dough and cooking process going fairly well.

I'm growing strawberries too, but I only have 2 growing so far.

that tiny white thing in the center = potential yum.

Next year will be even bigger and better, now that I know I can grow stuff without killing it, and what works and doesn't.

I have an automatic watering system going on, using a drip hose on a timer. Laziness is awesome.