Red Noodle beans and the Gardeners Year

The gardening year.
That was my point of doing this blog.
In the spring, I would be able to look back and make plans based on real intel. Now I find that it's a reason to do weekly photographs. Yes, looking at the plots. what works and what doesn't. Also what in interesting to me. Not just in my plots. What great juxtapostions can I find. What works with a focus on focus. Green black, Purple, magenta yellow. How do the colors relate.


This week the red noodle beans are coming into their own. They are really long and kind of thick, thicker at what I think is maturity that your average pole bean, and the Mexican bean beetles don't seem to target them. tonight I cooked some of both the red noodle and mostly bush beans provider variety, devistated by the beetles despite my efforts, together and it w0rked fine. The red noodle are more gelatenous, tasty and add that deep purple to the salad like perilla.

This weekend, I made a chicken marinated in lemongrass, nam pla, lime juice, rice wine vingear, sugar, fish peppers and chopped red onion. I saved half of the conconction for the salad and used the other to marinate chicken breasts boneless and skinless (on sale I prefer thighs - we thought Rebecca was coming we hoped (it's fun to see her).
The hurricaine Bill made my grilling choices simple. Grill on the porch, watch people run in the rain hop and gestuclate wildly and be glad that the sparks from Whole Foods current charcoal dropped on a very wet surface. The chicken and grilled vegetables were quite nice.

I'm really liking the fish peppers, especially the ones from Sophie in the blue pot. This plant is very prolific, the peppers have a great taste and are hot.