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Sayuri’s note
Since the last garden dinner, different kinds of flowers have been blooming in the garden, like peonies, sweet williams, Amaryllis, Japanese Iris, etc. I really enjoy seeing them. I went to John C. Campbell Folk School in NC with Sarah (the oldest daughter) and one of our friends a couple years ago in the fall. We explored the Folk School garden where there were milkweed with a lot of caterpillars on it. They would become monarch butterflies.
It was so cool to see the caterpillars that I thought I would like to plant milkweed in my garden to see the monarch caterpillars. Selu (the youngest daughter) brought me one seed packet two years ago. She coincidentally got a free mixed milkweed seed packet at college and gave it to me that winter. I was so excited to get them, germinate them last spring, and then transplant them into the garden. I saw a few monarch caterpillars on them, but they disappeared soon after. Maybe they were eaten by birds.
I germinated Common milkweed seeds this year, Selu collected the seeds at Morton Arboretum in Chicago where she worked last fall. She used the small mesh bag and wrapped it around the flowers to collect them as they dropped. I hope that the monarch will come back again and caterpillars will survive this year!
When I cut butternut squash from our garden for this dinner, they were bright orange like butterfly weed!
I transplanted lettuce, parsley, dill, and beets on March 28 under the row cover and they have been growing beautifully, safe from the deer munching so that we can munch them. When I was weeding in the garden in early May I had strawberries already. It was growing earlier than last year. I saw that a deer had snipped one tomato plant in the cage. I am hoping they won’t bother the vegetables in the garden and I am counting on our “Deer Busters” : Joe, our dogs, Hody, and Kuri (puppy, still training…), Willow the cat. Joe goes to the garden at night sometimes with the dogs and cats acting like Tigger with Christopher Robin to scare the deer from coming into the garden.
menu
Soup
Soup
Butternut Squash soup with orange lentils and chives (onion, celery, garlic, milk, parmesan cheese)
Main
Main
Japanese style vegetarian burger (onion, garlic, vegetarian meat, tofu, panko, egg)
Garden salad with homemade miso-caesar dressing (Bergam’s Green leaf lettuce, dill, parsley, kale, kalamata olives, feta cheese)
Mixed organic brown rice and wild rice
Dessert
Dessert
Buckwheat crepes with strawberries, whipping cream, ice cream, chocolate mint, and chocolate sauce
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